From office hours to happy hours: Is workplace drinking a recipe for disaster (part three)?

In the third and final episode of the three-part mini-series about work and drinking, Cess and Ollie chat about times when they have been boozing on the job – or at least felt the effects the day after a night on the sauce.Cess mentions how a clothes shop colleague was once sent to the stock room because he was feeling worse for wear and proceeded to curl up and nap. Ollie shares eyebrow-raising tales from his early career as a sports journalist – three bottles before the rugby union international, anyone?On the subject of sport, with the Olympics starting, the pair debate the treatment of a teenage Japanese gymnast who was sent home before the competition after someone dobbed her in for drinking (and smoking) at the training base. That item is one of four tasty Booze News bits.And there is some proper research on the occupations in the UK in which heavy drinking is prominent – some of the top five boozy jobs might surprise you (hint: The Brittas Empire).Here is a link to the research, Associations between occupation and heavy alcohol consumption in UK adults aged 40–69 years: a cross-sectional study using the UK Biobank: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-10208-x  Booze News items:Fortune (via MSN): Britain’s young football fans are ditching their sloppy drunk reputation – and are leading the charge for alcohol-free beer (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/britain-young-football-fans-ditching-183818345.html)  Metro (via MSN): Olympic team captain sent home for smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol (https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/olympic-team-captain-sent-home-for-smoking-cigarettes-and-drinking-alcohol/ar-BB1qgRyz)People: The Most Surprising Rules You Didn't Know Athletes Must Follow in the Olympic Village (https://people.com/olympic-village-rules-athletes-must-follow-8681929) Metro: Prison officers warned after drinking in pub on lunch break at HMP Winchester (https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/14/hmp-winchester-prison-officers-warned-drinking-pub-break-21187308/)#leadership#olympics#parisolympics2024#workdrinking#sobriety#UpperBottomPodcast#NoLowDrinkTrends#sobermovement#sober