Drink free beer while working!

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.. I'd be outraged if our fridge got locked on a Friday and I had to go to Lidl to buy my own beer.

lol thats outstanding

I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st

I think I want a job there

Thats incredible - did actually hear this on the news and found it amazing then, perhaps they should do some real work!

Steve - new demands and needs for my working environment - beer on tap with a single malt optic !

I used to work for a Belgian owned company and we used to get shipped out to Ghent on projects. They had a free bar in the canteen the locals used to get there food and a pint and read the paper.

The brits as you have probably already guessed used to get trollied for the 1st week there and once they realised it was there all the time and free it wore off.

hoegaarden used to be the tipple of choice if I recall.

Ghent is one of the oddest places on earth if you ever get the opportunity to go you should visit the Bicycle Bar "t'Velootje" it has bicycles hanging everywhere. I dont know if they still do it but if you ordered a half yard they would take a shoe as a deposit. so everyone in the pub is standing about on the slant.

Various sweets/chocolate manufacturers used to do something similar - new workers would generally make themselves ill on day 1 and then decide that unlimited sweets could still be enjoyed in moderation.

My money is on the upset not being caused by the limited beer, but on the process involved, with the lack of consultation adding insult to injury.

If it's unlimited, then I'd guess, there's a spigot and workers can wander up and fill their glasses themselves, and consider it a major job perk, not to mention the element of unspoken trust.

As soon as a limit is in place, there's going to be some middle-manager with a clipboard monitoring everybody, probably some kind of system that involves the worse elements of ID cards and token economies.

During the working day is the key thing for me. Personally I'd be more worried about a alcohol drug induced workforce, operating machinery, making alcohol impaired descions and driving home after work. Putting a limit in place like "not to be consumed while at work" doesn't seem to be that unreasonable, as the cars weave out of the plant at hometime...

Not so much a middle-manager with a clipboard, more of a copper with a breathalyser needed by the factory gates

QFT.


If you are in the "safety" of your own home, and wanting to knock back a few, thats one thing. But operating heavy equipment while potentially intoxicated seems like a good recipe for disaster.

I think a great many persons would sign up to "work" that job for less pay - if they knew they could get hammered all day long while doing it.

Personally, I disagree with drinking during the working day for much the same reasons you do. I'm not advocating it at all.

What I am saying is that I can see why the workers would be hacked off, not so much at the loss of the free beer, as at the company attitude changing from:
"Help yourselves to the product - we trust you not to be a---holes and to be capable of remembering, for yourselves, that it is illegal to drive drunk and that you should remain sober enough to work effectively."
to
"We think you are untrustworthy a---holes who are likely to get paralytic and then break the laws of the land on a daily basis if we don't stop you, you irresponsible halfwits."

I feel it has less to do with whether they can get drunk or not and more to do with the respect the company gives them.

It's like timed toilet breaks - who would you rather work for, the company who says "okay, you're old enough, responsible enough, and have enough of a work ethic to manage that for yourself," or the company who calls you in for a disciplinary because your average visit time is 1.3 minutes longer than they feel it should be?