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> every employee/team gets their own mini-fridge That's not startup normal. Maybe having beer and liquor bottles in the kitchen or snack room or whatever but h
by harrisonjackson 6y ago
> every employee/team gets their own mini-fridge
That's not startup normal. Maybe having beer and liquor bottles in the kitchen or snack room or whatever but half empty bottles littering the CEO's desk and every employee or even every team having their own mini-fridge is odd.
I've worked at startups with a "drinking culture" and startups with a "board game culture" and I'll take the board game culture every time. Doesn't mean you can't let loose and drink, too - but drinking as the central activity quickly turns a business into a frat house. I do have some great memories celebrating milestones, new hires, etc with early stage coworkers :D
- bredren 6y agoI’d add that casual alcohol use being normalized is not necessary or positive. Alcohol use among high school seniors in the US is on the decline, so is use of any “illicit” drug. [1] I’m no square, but this should be encouraged. Young people already deal with stress of fitting in at a high-velocity workplace. Modeling conspicuous substance consumption at work seems pretty backward to me. Perhaps the most irresponsible illustration of this is Elon Musk who has made his substance use so overt I think it wrongly and perhaps dangerously couples using to entrepreneurial success. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/26/the-concerns-and-challenges-of-being-a-u-s-teen-what-the-data-show/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/26/the-concern...
- MrBuddyCasino 6y ago> Alcohol use among high school seniors in the US is on the decline, so is use of any “illicit” drug. Sounds wholesome, but is probably just the symptom of people going out and socializing less, resulting in increased isolation and loneliness.
- JacobSuperslav 6y agohard to say. looking at me and my friends - we've got more time to socialize, plenty of friends, yet people drink less, and definitely use less tobacco(it's really unsexy to smoke cigarettes now, and vaping in public is just embarrassing), because we're more health focused. I have to admit I'm a regular user of psychedelics. drugs are decriminalized where I'm from. unless there will be long term consequences, i don't think it impacted me in any bad way, frankly the opposite, albeit "wasting" some time with friends.
- bredren 6y agoAccording to Pew, teen alcohol consumption has been in decline since 1997.
- PablumPicasso 6y ago> Perhaps the most irresponsible illustration of this is Elon Musk who has made his substance use so overt I think it wrongly and perhaps dangerously couples using to entrepreneurial success. oh come off it, what substance abuse? he toked on a blunt on JRE once (clearly barely inhaled and even then, so what) and has a few bourbons with his brother on yearly retreats? please provide more info about this, because i've never, ever taken musk to be that sort of guy.
- bredren 6y agohttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/872260000491593728 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/872260000491593728
- tarsinge 6y agoAh yes a glass of red wine is "substance use", as a French that's a good one.
- Pelic4n 6y agoFrom a french to another, a glass of red wine spiced up with benzos absolutely is substance use, and an extremely dangerous kind.
- tarsinge 6y agoMy bad, I read "Ambient" and thought it was the kind of records he listened to...
- waihtis 6y agoThink the supposed problem here is mixing wine with sleeping pills.
- tarsinge 6y agoYeah I missed that part, didn't know about "Ambien" and thought it was "Ambient" music with a typo