Danes :lol:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36278625/ns/business-consumer_news/
QuoteLunch-only beer rule prompts strike
Brewer Carlsberg also removed coolers from the workplace
updated 6:11 p.m. ET April 8, 2010
COPENHAGEN - Scores of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites, a company spokesman said.
The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are rebelling against the company's new alcohol policy, which allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the work sites.
The only restriction was "that you could not be drunk at work. It was up to each and everyone to be responsible," company spokesman Jens Bekke said.
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Carlsberg had mulled a stricter drinking policy for years and finally decided to impose the new rules on April 1, prompting protests from the staff.
Bekke said around 800 workers went on strike Wednesday and around 250 walked off their jobs Thursday, resulting in interruptions to beer transports in and around Copenhagen.
Carlsberg's truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy — even though they are exempt from the new rules, Bekke said. The truck drivers are permitted to bring three beers from the canteen because they often don't have time to have lunch there.
The trucks have alcohol ignition locks preventing the drivers from driving drunk, he added.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
I will stand in solidarity with the workers by continuing to not drink Carlsberg beer
"........finally decided to impose the new rules on April 1.........."
I think it's ok, just management's idea of a joke <_<
Could it be MSNBC mistakenly reporting Danish April Fools joke? :D
I mean the part about truck drivers being exempts from the restrictions and being allowed 3 beers during work hours seems like an obvious joke.
Quote from: Martinus on April 09, 2010, 01:27:14 AM
Could it be MSNBC mistakenly reporting Danish April Fools joke? :D
I mean the part about truck drivers being exempts from the restrictions and being allowed 3 beers during work hours seems like an obvious joke.
No kidding. I'd hate to see what blood alcohol level is the legal limit in Denmark. :lol:
Denmark - 0.05%, imprisonment if over 0.08%, zero if involved in an accident
Apparently they're quite strict
This is no joke.
Quote from: Liep on April 09, 2010, 03:47:09 AM
This is no joke.
How can you have three beers and still be under the legal limit?
Quote from: citizen k on April 09, 2010, 03:50:26 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 09, 2010, 03:47:09 AM
This is no joke.
How can you have three beers and still be under the legal limit?
Over an 8 hour work shift it would be very easy.
Quote from: sbr on April 09, 2010, 03:54:06 AM
Quote from: citizen k on April 09, 2010, 03:50:26 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 09, 2010, 03:47:09 AM
This is no joke.
How can you have three beers and still be under the legal limit?
Over an 8 hour work shift it would be very easy.
How about over lunch?
Quote from: citizen k on April 09, 2010, 04:07:06 AM
Quote from: sbr on April 09, 2010, 03:54:06 AM
Quote from: citizen k on April 09, 2010, 03:50:26 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 09, 2010, 03:47:09 AM
This is no joke.
How can you have three beers and still be under the legal limit?
Over an 8 hour work shift it would be very easy.
How about over lunch?
But the drivers don't have to have three beers at lunch. They can drink them during their working day, presumably when they take breaks and make deliveries. Or maybe they take the beer home with them.
I do find it strange myself though.
This is not a weird policy per se though (at least not as far as non-drivers are involved). Hell, I've seen/ heard of vodka manufacturing companies that offer vodka during lunch breaks in factory cafeteries (and no, these weren't Polish or Russian companies).
Quote from: citizen k on April 09, 2010, 04:07:06 AM
How about over lunch?
A big guy can have three beers in an hour and be under the limit
The first job I worked in had a ful-on pub-style bar in the canteen, mostly frequented by the warehouse staff.
Retsricting beer drinking to lunchtimes will encourage binge drinking. Having it available all day will encourage responsible drinking. Like when the UK went to all-day opening and everyone immediately started to drink sensibly :unsure:
I believe it. Brown-Forman is headquartered in Louisville (they make stuff like various brands of bourbon, Southern Comfort, etc. and also import tons of wine and beer), and not only do they allow drinking during the workday, they actively encourage it by giving people booze as a reward for doing a good job on a project, etc. and then the whole team drinks it to celebrate. :cheers:
I got a chuckle out of this story. :D
It's not a Dane thing, it's actually a Beer maker thing.
Apparently you could still buy beer from vending machines in the plants of my company a few years ago.
Until a couple years ago, you could go tour the Molson beer factory & walk out drunk with a case of 24.
ON the 1st of Jan, the retirees of the Molson Plant St-John's, lost their 864 beers/year allotment. It was reduce to 144 beers or 1 dozen down from 6 dozen.
We can buy beer from vending machines at the post office where I work, official alcohol policy is: 1 beer with in ½ a hour after the end of the work day...
Well that is the official policy, but I cant say it is being follow that often, at least not this Friday. I mean some how did I manage make my "single" after hours beer last more than 3 hours... ;)
:cheers:
Beer.... vending machines!? :o
In New Orleans, they have places that sell frozen pina coladas and daiquiris out of slurpee machines. I enjoyed those. :cool:
Quote from: Caliga on April 09, 2010, 11:37:03 AM
Beer.... vending machines!? :o
In New Orleans, they have places that sell frozen pina coladas and daiquiris out of slurpee machines. I enjoyed those. :cool:
There was one in a student's dorm in Vienna.
In Japan I saw beer vending machines and porn vending machines.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 09, 2010, 11:53:23 AM
In Japan I saw beer vending machines and porn vending machines.
:w00t:
The wrong side won WWII. :(
We don't drink beer at work.
Quote from: The Brain on April 09, 2010, 12:45:46 PM
We don't drink beer at work.
What about Homer Simpson?
China has beer vending machines, too. :)