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james_s:

--- Quote from: FreddieChopin on September 19, 2019, 05:39:28 pm ---One day while walking the dog I picked up two fresh and empty 200ml bottles of nalewkas. It's cheap affordable way to get drunk so bums leave them everywhere. Cleaned them up a bit and next day at work I placed them deep in a cupboard used to store bags of coffee. About 2 weeks later we started having random, mandatory breathalyzer tests for all employees  >:D   >:D and HR lady was going crazy, asking everyone for a confidental face-to-face meeting to identify colleagues who could've consumed alcohol at work  :-DD

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My office has beer in the fridge and fairly often somebody brings in wine or liquor, it's pretty common in the software industry. There are no firm rules around when it can be consumed and so far we haven't had a need for them, people just know that it's inappropriate to get plastered during the day but there's nothing wrong with having a beer or glass of wine over lunch.

Most HR rules seem like common sense to me. HR exists to protect the company and the rules are there so that if an incident does occur nobody can blame the company for not telling them they're not allowed to do it. In any of the places I've worked as long as you behave in a sensible way and don't be creepy or obnoxious nobody is going to hassle you.
VK3DRB:
When I started working, my superior was called a manageress, ie: a female manager. If I call a female superior a manageress today, I could be cautioned for being sexist or maybe even fired. This has nothing to do with equal rights and opportunity. It has everything to do with political correctness gone mad. Since when have actresses been called actors? What :bullshit: is that?! No wonder men and women are now called "resource" or "headcount" by multinationals. We are not even people, let alone male of female. It is safer not to mention gender in anything in the workplace these days.

At one workplace, we wore ESD coats where some were quite frayed. The CEO was extremely tight with money and would never buy replacements. So I asked him if his business partner can sew (she was also his defacto). He got upset saying that asking if a woman can sew is sexist. Besides being the the master of false economy with poor management skills, he was an idiot in general and I left the company soon after as did almost every other employee.
EEEnthusiast:
In the tech companies, male to female employee ratio is almost 10:1 or higher. In an office where I was working, the number of male toilets was equal to the number of female toilets. I asked the facility manager to cut down on the female toilets and increase the male ones as the average wait time was very high. They did not like it very much even though my logic was spot on. Do they not consider these things before making the building?
Circlotron:
I worked for 10 years in the design lab of a company that made good quality switch mode power supplies. On a daily basis we would make engineering decisions that affected fire and electrical safety, the sort of thing that if done wrong would have possibly caused the company to get sued into oblivion. Despite this, we were not trusted to have a key to the stationery cupboard to get a pen.
madires:
It's all about people. If a company has hired the wrong persons the troubles will start. And it becomes harder and harder to get the right ones as larger the company grows or is.
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