Ah yes, that new job "high"

[Joemonkey]

It is my second week of work here, and today they had a "fun @ 4" event (that they apparently have every couple of weeks) where, for free, and on the clock, we got to eat mexican food in hors d'ourve fashion (mini beef burritos, quesadillas, "shots" of shrimp and pico de gallo in a tortilla "glass", tortilla chips w/ queso, salsa, and guacamole, etc.) and drink as many margaritas and palomas as we cared to, then got free 750ml bottles of tequila

And I thought being able to SEM analysis at my old job was an awesome perk...

 

[Juked07]

The company paid for you to drink?

 

[Flammable]

....how did you get home?

 

[iamwiz82]

Are they hiring, and do they offer relocation assistance?

 

[Joemonkey]

1. yes, the company pays for me to drink at work, and gives me an allowance every year such that when I buy their products I can turn it in as a reimbursable expense up to a certain dollar amount

2. I drove. The drinks were MAYBE 3-4oz each, 90% ice, and I had 3

3. They hired me in the past couple of weeks, and yes

 

[Buck Armstrong]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Are they hiring, and do they offer relocation assistance?

As in move across the country, or get home from work drunk? :laugh:

 

[tfinch2]

We have beer bash every Friday.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
We have beer bash every Friday.

More places need to do that kinda stuff. I guess it depends on which part of the country you are in, hell my state has more dry counties than wet.

 

[d33pt]

i'm surprised any corporation lets you drink at work nowadays. that's such a huge liability.

 

[preslove]

For me, "new job high" is when you get really high after successfully passing a preemployment drug test...

 

[EvilYoda]

Nice...have you visited Michigan recently? I don't live there anymore, but it was a while since you had last visited for work.

Then again, if you're getting paid to drink on the job, no wonder you haven't visited

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: tfinch2
We have beer bash every Friday.

More places need to do that kinda stuff. I guess it depends on which part of the country you are in, hell my state has more dry counties than wet.

does your company have offices in the Bay Area? Do I need to know anything about computers/IT to work there?

2 jobs ago, my lab had beer and junk food every Friday out on our 6th floor terrace. It was fantastic.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: preslove
For me, "new job high" is when you get really high after successfully passing a preemployment drug test...

this

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Wow sounds awesome. Not only did you get paid to eat/drink, but you got paid to take liquor home. At my old job, I always felt good knowing that I was being paid to crap...

 

[h8red]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Wow sounds awesome. Not only did you get paid to eat/drink, but you got paid to take liquor home. At my old job, I always felt good knowing that I was being paid to crap...

that last statement doesn't seem to jive with your username!!

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: h8red

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Wow sounds awesome. Not only did you get paid to eat/drink, but you got paid to take liquor home. At my old job, I always felt good knowing that I was being paid to crap...

that last statement doesn't seem to jive with your username!!

His company provided complimentary colonics as a perk.

 

[imported_Devine]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Wow sounds awesome. Not only did you get paid to eat/drink, but you got paid to take liquor home. At my old job, I always felt good knowing that I was being paid to crap...

lol, what an appropriate name :laugh:

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Nice...have you visited Michigan recently? I don't live there anymore, but it was a while since you had last visited for work.

Then again, if you're getting paid to drink on the job, no wonder you haven't visited

Funny you should mention that. I had made "plans" with lola and iamwiz to hang out sometime in Aug. or Sep. because I knew work was planning on sending me back to good ol' Detroit Rock City, and would have been able to probably bring my wife and daughter. Once I was in the interview process with my current employer the time to go to Detroit for my employer at the time came up. I told them I couldn't go since they were moving offices and it wouldn't make sense to send me since have a bad back (which I really do). They sent another guy from our office on a Friday, and the Monday after I accepted my new offer.

Hell, drinking one alcoholic beverage at lunch (so long as it is one we make/distribute) is encouraged.

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Nice...have you visited Michigan recently? I don't live there anymore, but it was a while since you had last visited for work.

Then again, if you're getting paid to drink on the job, no wonder you haven't visited

Funny you should mention that. I had made "plans" with lola and iamwiz to hang out sometime in Aug. or Sep. because I knew work was planning on sending me back to good ol' Detroit Rock City, and would have been able to probably bring my wife and daughter. Once I was in the interview process with my current employer the time to go to Detroit for my employer at the time came up. I told them I couldn't go since they were moving offices and it wouldn't make sense to send me since have a bad back (which I really do). They sent another guy from our office on a Friday, and the Monday after I accepted my new offer.

Hell, drinking one alcoholic beverage at lunch (so long as it is one we make/distribute) is encouraged.

Have you said said exactly what company or type of company you work for? Liquor maker or distributor?

 

[Joemonkey]

I got elected to congress of course! How else do you think laws get passed? We all drink on at work on Tuesdays and decide which laws get passed based on which ones get puked on...


oh... and what is "said said" ?

 

[Svnla]

Originally posted by: d33pt
i'm surprised any corporation lets you drink at work nowadays. that's such a huge liability.

True. I never work at any places that employer provides alcohol and I worked with Fortune 100 companies and medium/small places.

Food and drink yes, alcohol of any kinds no.

 

[HappyPuppy]

ROFL. What a crock of shit.

 

[Heller]

Originally posted by: preslove
For me, "new job high" is when you get really high after successfully passing a preemployment drug test...

my new sig, its awesome

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
ROFL. What a crock of shit.

Care to elaborate?

 

[destrekor]

So it's been *kind of* established you work for some company that makes alcoholic products.

Brown-Forman? hmmmm?