Early Addition: Employers are trying to lure people back to work by stocking the office with alcohol

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Do you want a no or a hell no?

No I have drinks at home.

Absolutely not.

As a pharmacist I never left and alcohol would go poorly with the job.

How about a well-deserved raise?

N..no? Like, I don’t drink, but also it’s easy to drink at home?

Fuck no

No. We’re not idiots. Give us a pay rise and 4 work days then MAYBLE I’ll consider going back to the office.

I have an idea. If an employee says you’re required to work in the office, you go work in the office or find a new job. Controversial thought, I know.

Absolutely not. Additionally why would I remove my mask for drinks? Stupid as all hell, that's how you get omicron.

Hells and no.

Fuck no.

No

No. How about you pay me more and still let me work from home as much as is feasible for the nature of my work? Deal?

I work from home, and I can have my own drinks here. Not a chance will I agree to go back to an office.

If you want to lure people back to the office, offer laundry service. Employees can drop off a laundry bag when they arrive and then by the end of the work day, a folded stack of clean and folded laundry is retuned too you.

No

No. Work is not a social event.

i don’t drink so no

?

If my employer paid me a living wage I could just buy my own drinks

Do those drinks come with a wage that increases w/ inflation and a 4 day/20 hour work week as full-time? 🤔 no? I'll pass then.

They’ll spend money on everything but wages…

Turn offices into housing for the unhoused in NYC and stop living in the past with all this “back to the office” bs. 🙄

We want better wages and less work hours.

I’d go just for the job. :(

Just convert my tab into dollars and give me that. It’ll also spare me the embarrassment of putting my foot in my mouth when I’m hammered at work

Sure, if it was an all-day open bar

95% of all human employment are meaningless and unnecessary

Stop consuming and stop coming into work. And let the monetary market capitalist system collapse and phase itself out. The climate catastrophe will only get worst as long as capitalism exists

I was hoping that the smoking lady picture was because one office was going back to letting people smoke inside, lol

1. Not everyone drinks. I think it’s about time people in the workplace start thinking about social activities that don’t revolve around drinking. 2. No, gimme the money in a raise instead🥴

Something about sharing a Cocktail with the person who can yeet me into poverty on a whim doesnt sound interesting to me

No

Nope. Give me decent pay and let me work from home. I don’t need micromanagement and the social noise pollution, and I can get my drinks at HOME…

Give me a raise and a 3 day weekend

'Sir, they keep asking for living wages and health care... yeah, I'm scared they'll unionize too...I've got it: if we get them drunk, they'll forget all about it!' 'Excellent work, Johnson. Don't forget to rifle through their pockets when they pass out.'

Maybe if they fucking paid us better. All we want is better pay and better hours. Anything less will only get a 'go fuck yourself' from me

nah booze is what's after work

Instead of trying to bribe people to work for you with alcohol. Why not pay a livable wage, have good working conditions, and treat workers like human beings?

Nope, not gonna happen ever

no

OMFG I just want to wfh! I spend 2 hours a day on the subway so I can zoom from my desk and now they want to ply me with booze so I won’t want to leave? No thank you

If you need alcohol to get through days in the office, you shouldn't be in the office...

JUST PAY FAIR WAGES! IF I WANT A DRINK I WILL BUY ONE MYSELF!

We already have drinks in the office. I am still working from home.

This is pretty embarrassing, the answer from everyone even the alcoholics is na bra

No way.I still have flashes of the supreme chaos that reigned after our annual outing at a winery in Napa.The bus ride back to SF featured several MD’s giving lap dances & taking turns on the stripper poles installed in the bus.Empty Champagne bottles rolling around.And vomiting.

Great, so Doug in Sales gets a little handsy after a few so that'll be good when Susan goes on her rant about her husband and how she should leave him, nothing awful could possibly transpire with encouraged drinking at work, oh did I mention Felix and his alcohol addiction phew

I’m sober, so no. God, just pay your people, & lobby for Medicare for all so everyone can have healthcare, but no one has to do it through their f**king work anymore. It’s all so simple.

So having me drunk at work is better than me working sober from home? 🥴

Time is money. I can buy my own drinks.

So I can wrap my car around a tree on the way home? WeGotDrinksAtHome

If companies paid more and let employees work from home, we could afford a 2nd fridge with our own drinks.

My employer is doing exactly this !!! They all must have got the same news letter

Well I didn’t have this on my late-stage capitalism bingo card

fucking no

This is the dumbest shit ever shat.

What people what in a job? Money. What people don’t want in a job? Drinks.

Do i get to choose the drinks because if i do i pick bleach

They'll do anything to get people to work except pay them what they deserve

I would simply opt for deleting my line of code from this simulation

Noooooooo

Not at all. No desire to return to the office, no matter what 'perks' the job starts offering. They can't replace the time I'd waste commuting.

no just more money thanks

No, that would make me never enter the office again even more

Maybe we should think about why working conditions are so miserable that people need alcohol to get through the day

Can't mix alcohol with the antidepressants that you need because of how horrible the job is

No

Seems like a totally safe, non-hostile work environment for recovering alcoholics.

No. Why would I want that? If companies want to pay me from the moment I step out my door all the way to the time I return home at the end of the day, then we can talk. Also, pay me during lunch. Heck, pay for my lunch.

office culture does not need more alcohol

No.

Ugh No. And also, many people since the pandemic have re-examined their work/life balance. And the newest generation in the force already has expressed the importance of it. Doubt they want an upscale 'Severance' type menu of bs rewards. I mean basically that's what we had.

No. Screw the office, especially when the people demanding we come in take vacations while telling us 'sorry you can't afford your health insurance'.

No I have drinks at home

I guarantee drinks won’t help with employee retention. They might just mess around & quit after a beer or 4.

No. Can drink at home without Covid 😂

I don't drink, even when I'm not at work. Can I have my portion of the weekly drinks budget stuck in my paycheck?

Hahahahaha fuck no

Better pay and healthcare (because unfortunately health insurance is tied to our jobs).

Nobody wants to go back to the office and most of people can barely afford to anyway with the hikes up costs of transport, energy, childcare, food and just existence.

No.

Ew no wth

Oh yeah let’s just encourage everyone to drink and lower their shields so they say something in front of their manager so they can use it against them later… Nope!

lmfao, the only thing I would even consider for a return to the office would be a 100% pay increase.

lmao

Why would them giving me drinks get me back in the office when I can almost definitely have better drinks at home? That's not an actual incentive for me to have a much shittier and less productive work experience.

Pay them enough to buy their own booze

Fuck no.

nope just lots and lots of money

HAHAHAHAHA, no

no

Studies show that employees are more productive working from *home*

Go to the office for the same amount of money. Spend uncompensated hours commuting. Attend meetings that should have been emails. But now the manager that sexually harassed you has started day drinking?

Drinks? That’s weak. Try cocaine & ketamine if you really want them back. Show them you care

How about respect? That’d be nice.

My office has beer and spirits in the office. I don’t like who people become when they’re drunk. I already had an uncomfortable experience with a married guy who was aggressively trying to get my attention 🙃 I don’t go in the office when people have designated drinking days 🙂👍

WTF, no, just pay us enough to live please

Wasted off 4 hard seltzers crawling around the office with a Bowie knife in my teeth like it's Vietnam

Fuck no

What if the office offered to pay more? I mean they got drink money.

NOPE

No but I will go if they provide me a gf

Add 20% of salary to comp me for the commute time and worn out shoes and we can talk.

No. Remote work is good. Stop trying to make every last second of employee's lives fucking miserable.

No

No

Just fucking pay people fairly

Just pay people a livable wage it’s not that hard.

no

My office does this already and there's literally 3 ppl in daily.

sounds like management has some bad metrics because they're shitfaced at work already

Why can't they just pay people what they're worth?

Going back to the office as the only black woman to deal with the microagressions I've gotten away from that are now fueled by alcohol?! AMAZING!

Nah, they can just give me the money and I can pick up drinks on my own time. Or even have them delivered here.

If I was allowed to be sloshed for the entire 10 hours, then yes

I am all for hybrid working but NO to full time office work

No

.....no

As in, mojitos? Or a lesser concoction?

Nothing in the world would make me go back to an in office job unless it paid 250k+

they're really trying literally everything but making their employees' lives tangibly better.

no

Fuck no! I prefer to drink at home and cry myself to sleep every night like a normal person.

Absolutely not.

lol. i really hated all the snide 'everyone at the office is jealous of me thats why they want me back in the office' takes but what the fuck is this where you'd rather have your employees drunk and present rather than simply at home and functional

My company already offers drinks. I don't want to go back and there's no reason for me to.

We did this at Zenefits and yelp while they forced young people in their early 20s to work 50 hr week minimums. The alcohol was fun until we kept getting written up in buzzfeed articles slutshaming my coworkers :)

No thanks

No, I can have drinks at home without worrying about driving.

No;

Pretty arrogant to assume your camaraderie is as good as CASH

hell no

i didn't mind beer culture at work (in games it can get excessive though) when i was still drinking alcohol but it was kind of surprising how peer-pressure-y people can get when you stop. definitely a net negative from my perspective.

I work onsite and would leave if this happened. But that's because I'm around glass and chemicals lol

Hell no.

No? I'm sober, and like 'surrounded by tipsy people that I have to be polite to because of work' just sounds extremely unpleasant lmao

seems dangerous for u littlemoteI

no i can drink just fine at home thanks

It's almost sweet how stupid these suggestions are. Almost.

NO, drinking is not on my list of company benefits.

No

now that i've been working at home i think it would take a 25% pay increase to get me back in an office, not a couple beers

no

I’ve rarely had a boss I want to have a drink with. I don’t believe in socializing at work. Pay me to work & maybe advise management they should work more, we’re not their playthings

no

How about a living wage?

My spouse's office already had beer in the fridge and bottles of whiskey are commonly given (and drunk) as gifts between co-workers. He still wants to work from home. So do 90% of his co-workers.

I don't work in an office, but no. I don't have much of a choice though. Patients gotta eat.

I wonder what the liability is, getting your employees trashed before they have to drive home since all but two US cities require car ownership.

HOW ABOUT take the money that would have gone to the drinks And PUT THAT MONEY IN OUR CHECKS

No

No

They should try giving everyone an office, enforcing mask/vaccines, paying for time spent commuting and paying commuting costs.

no

all people want is better wages, better health care, and better time off. It's not fucking hard

No. Happy to help lol

I’d prefer a living wage.

I'm a tetotaler and my spouse is an ex-alcoholic, of course we don't want drinks, we want pay lol. But even if we did drink, money you're paid can afford alcohol! Yes! Money can be exchanged for goods and services...like labor. :D

Hmmm, I guess filling the office with liquor can be used as a tax write off instead of just giving their workers better wages and less hours

How about… and this may be an edgy thought… but how about they offer… more money?

No?

Fuck your drinks and your coffee and your pizza lunches. Idk if you know this, but money is currency for the poors, too.

Why can't any of you execudroids for the duopoly wake up and see what is going on around you? People need MONEY. Much better wages.

Will they be held accountable when these employees drive home?

I don't drink with assholes

No? Tf?

I can have drinks at home

If you need to pry employees with 10am cocktails you've already lost them 🙃

Fuck no

These the drinks.

How many drinks are we talking?

Nope, I don't drink alcohol.

more money for less work

Damn, this presumes that the entire workforce is made up of 22 year olds.

No.

What about people in recovery? What a terrible idea!

I don’t drink so that would actually be another reason not to go back lol

No. Just a way to enforce more minimum wage rules. I’ll do my business in the privacy of my own place thanks

last time I had coworkers drunk at the office, they started a fistfight with the manager who asked them to go home for the day, then they had to be escorted from the building when they didn't believe they'd been fired as a result. so, no thank you

Drinks during the work day or they want to get you stay at the office longer by having drinks after office hours . Pass on either one. I have excellent drinks at home

Waste of money. I’d come back in if they pay for Lyfts

Ask Tony Hsieh how cool partying at the office was!

How much of this stupid office propaganda has to be ratio'd to hell before y'all stop writing it? No one's buying it.

No

Drinks? Gtfo

wtf drinking at work naaaaaa that right there is a huge HR nightmare plus who the fk wants to be feeling nice and mellow AT WORK

Offering literal poison as an incentive instead of better conditions & pay seems a bit off.

Owners and CEO’s really do hate their families and home lives.

the only thing that would make me go back to the office is a raise and a company car + driver to take me there/bring me home every day

Well, I don’t have a choice as a city govt employee, so would I be a tiny bit happier if I was given cold brew and seltzer? Yes!

But people can already have drinks (if they choose to) while working from home, so what’s the benefit?

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no

I haven't read but they're not offering more money? Just drinks

No? One of the benefits of working from home is that it can allow you to be more efficient. I don't think 'drink on the job' is going to appeal very much to that.

Would you go back to the office if your company threaten to fire you if you don't?

if they offered me unlimited edibles, yes

Better question. Why do you need people in the office and why haven't you gotten therapy for that problem?

Make them drunk enough so they don’t realize they’re being underpaid? Great idea. Move over bar fights…we have office fights now.

instead of paying you more for your commute or giving you better health insurance or investing in improved ventilation and health and safety precautions, here’s some booze

no

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