[Ed Selley]

I apologise for the title but that's what Channel 4 called it

I for one found it pretty gripping stuff- one has to question the reliability of all of it (actors were reproducing interviews from real people- leading I assume to a little creative licence) but the central theme of the program, that there are professional people who are often drunk in the workplace and whose alcohol intake is off the normal charts. The best example was the Underground Station supervisor who admitted to being pretty drunk most of the time and had previously been a tube driver in the same condition ("six pack in the cab on a late shift" ).

I suspect the other thing the program did was make one feel better about themselves- my glass of Jamesons before bed rather pales next to being arrested for drink driving whilst driving to the hospital where you are a casualty doctor.

[Nobber22]

When I moved to the UK several years ago, what absolutely astounded me was how the Brits go out for a pint or two at lunch, then go back to the office and carry on with their jobs. People counting money in banks, nurses who care for patients in wards, stock brokers giving advice about how to spend your life-savings, etc , etc.

Try that in America or South Africa (just 2 examples I'm aware of) and you'd be fired on the spot! You don't even have to be drunk - have a drink, you better take the afternoon off.

Not that I had any trouble adapting to the UK way of doing things......

Originally posted by Nobber22
When I moved to the UK several years ago, what absolutely astounded me was how the Brits go out for a pint or two at lunch, then go back to the office and carry on with their jobs.

I know. Ain't it great?

Try that in America or South Africa (just 2 examples I'm aware of) and you'd be fired on the spot!

Unless you're a salesman, then it's just all part of the business.

[squirrely]

i wanted to watch it but was to sh*tfaced from the afternoon

[Nobber22]

Originally posted by Azrikam

Unless you're a salesman, then it's just all part of the business.

Any salesman going back to the office after a "busines meeting with clients (around lunchtime)" deserves to have his Company Visa card instantly revoked!

[pwiles1968]

Missed it - I was watching Nip-Tuck and Smalleville on tape, with a nice bottle of red and the wife made me drink some vodka (she left half a can of Pepsi and I could not waste it)

[STOWITBELOW]

Obviously not a lot of temperance on this forum. It was no news to me & not very entertaining. Truth being stranger than acted pseudo truth I see the drunk pilot arrested in America still in custody has applied for bail using his bad heart as a reason for bail ! - open the bottle - take the pills - fly the plane I cant decide.

[Shady]

My girlfriend always takes the mickey out of the fact that we have a 'no drinking policy' at work - It is an instant disciplinary offence.

This relates to all office and mobile staff from the top down (apparently!).

She on the other hand, finds it completely normal to have a couple of drinks at lunchtime - not every lunchtime may I add, she is not an alkie.

Cheers

[Ed Selley]

There is no Pub lunch culture here either. Often the company will decamp to the pub after work however. Not drinking vast amounts of beer is the major line of attack in my effort to lose weight so a sober working practice suits me admirably.

i was amazed none of them were sacked

take the teacher, regularly ****** on the job, threw up in a class, clearly an awful teacher, shagging a student. Took 6months off, yet still employed.

I found the one last year about the pilots getting hammered and staying up all night before flying in the morning very peturbing

[Spoonman2]

I watched this, and thought it wa a bunch of actors making a cheap program to get some attention.

The bit where the teacher threw up in class was laughable, I was waiting for mr Beadle to pop up at any moment in the whole program.

Anyone else think the program was a complete sham???


Just my two pence worth.


Spoony.

erm

it was a bunch of actors

It was reenactment of true stories.

[STOWITBELOW]

I could have watched a repeat of something for more entertainment - anything

[seany]

It was not about entertainment. It was just highlighting a serious problem