Coming from the Younger Generation: A lot of my peers don't drink. If they do drink, it's very uncommon they have more than one or two drinks at a time, sparin

Coming from the Younger Generation: A lot of my peers don't drink. If they do drink, it's very uncommon they have more than one or two drinks at a time, sparingly. There's a definite shift. Multiple of my peers have cited their parents' heavy drinking and the result as a reason why they're choosing to go sober, which I can respect at one level. That isn't to say I don't have binge drinking colleagues. Oh boy do I. I asked a longtime friend of mine how he handles his work (primarily onsite IT support) and he didn't drop a beat when he responded "Alcohol." Alcoholism has become the crutch to hold up some of the frontline support folks because of lack of staffing, lack of training, lack of everything.