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Leonard Hatred 3:57 Mon Mar 12
Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break

Does anyone still do this?
It used to be the norm years ago.
Probly frowned upon nowadays.

Charoo 6:58 Fri Mar 16
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break

Hammer, Hassan and Virginia

I was at Tullets in the late 90's - my interview was conducted in Gow's wine bar - consisting mainly of how much Bollinger i could drink.

Moncurs Putting Iron 6:29 Fri Mar 16
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Mid 80s working for BT we actually ran an extension into the pub next door from the exchange building.

Pop Robson 10:09 Wed Mar 14
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In the late 70s and 80swas a sparks working on various new off is development round the City, Broadgate and the like.

4pints for lunch of Tennants Extra or Stella, sneak back at at 2:50pm (when they used to shut at 3pm) squeeze 2pints in.

Then 5pm straight back in the pub, looking back suprised there wasn't more accidents on site !!

Northern Sold 11:55 Tue Mar 13
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`Nowadays most firms have strict no drinking/drugs rules in place`


My MATE (who is a big drinker) is a manager of about 15 staff in a pensions firm in the City... no drink policy for ALL staff.... in fact once he went into teh pub and frogmarched out the whole of his staff one lunchtime birthday drink... and that included his staff that was drinking soft drinks... ha ha ha... I would have shoved a pint pot over his swede.... cunt

Trevor B 11:52 Tue Mar 13
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Back in the days of the LIFFE floor in the city every boozer/wine bar nearby was rammed every lunchtime. Deacons, The Cannon, London Stone, The Banker, Watling, Lautrecs, Hatchet, The Bell, The Golf Club, City FOP, 25, Arbitrager, The Regalia, Jam Pot, Walrus and Carpenter, College Press, Whittingtons, Flowitts to name but a few, many of whom are gone now.

Nowadays most firms have strict no drinking/drugs rules in place, even to the point of having to be careful the next morning if you had a skin full the night before.

Westham67 11:42 Tue Mar 13
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Used to early houses after a night shift on LUL
The Hope Smithfield Market
The Railway Stratford
The Caxton The Highway
The Rose of Denmark Silvertown way

Supposed to close at 9 am but The Rose was open all of the time. A Shithole had a toilet with no roof. They did a promotion a pound a pint before 9 am all the winos came in from the surrounding areas. Was like the bar at the end of the Universe

Got so pissed up once got on the train at Fenchurch street to go to Barking to fell asleep woke in Shoeburyness. The commuters on the platform not impressed with a bloke pissed on the platform at that time in the morning, Breaking my next for piss on the way back as well got of at Chalkwell had a piss at the end platform.

Got back to Barking just as my local opened went in their had some fun with the lunchtime crowd

w4hammer 11:14 Tue Mar 13
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Used to work in Farm Steet Mayfair for a computer bureau for the advertising world in the mid 80"s - Coach & Horses would be open at 6 am for the shift guys most days- in the end i was doing 5 pints of guinness at lunchtime. Crazy, happy , hazy days.

Also the location of Phil Lynott's last visit to the pub- saw him in there the lunchtime he died- he was also eating a Ginsters Cornish Pasty -Ive never felt good about them since ;-)

ironsofcanada 10:48 Tue Mar 13
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Worked at milk a plant through my summers during my first stint at university.

One of the forklift drivers would come back super happy after every lunch and try to kill us all.

It was a union shop, so he didn't get fired but I did get paid a whole lot for dodging him.

Hasans Fish Bar RIP 4:02 Tue Mar 13
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VH

Dont doubt that for a minute. I was never in the trade but mates were. GFI is where they are now and things don't change much!

joe royal 3:35 Tue Mar 13
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break

in the mid 80s i worked doing telesales in romford , lunchtime drinking was the norm and sales increased in the afternoons as we were all more chatty for some reason.

was on 200 quid a week in those days , highest paid of all my mates .

zebthecat 11:47 Mon Mar 12
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When I worked at the MoD Friday afternoons were usually a complete write off. I formed the opinion that the Army had a specialist serious drinking module at Sandhurst and I used to really like a drink.
It was always someone's birthday, anniversary, leaving do, kid's birthday and once the port came out all bets were off.
All that died off once the millenium happened.

bruuuno 11:37 Mon Mar 12
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Digger driver on a site I worked at would have four pints of Guinness every day at lunch.

Fuck even having a pint at lunch, did it once and spent all afternoon trying to stay awake. I don’t know why alcohol is so popular.

Hammer and Pickle 10:44 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break

Well?

Let's have it!

VirginiaHam 10:39 Mon Mar 12
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Spot cross currencies.......they used to have naughty boy Fridays where someone fucked up a deal and Tulletts had to pay the bank for the fuck-up.

So, they'd hold the whole desk back once trading had finished and play the tapes back until they found the error, then try and work out if the bloke had been on the piss at lunch time.

I had so much fun with that job. Liver, not so much. International sales at BT. I have a horror story about a trip to Tulletts in NYC (Ted Castator) with the Comms. Manager from London, Alan Brace. Lucky to survive.

Hammer and Pickle 10:33 Mon Mar 12
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Radio rental

https://www.tullettprebon.com/about/about_ourstory.aspx

Hasans Fish Bar RIP 10:29 Mon Mar 12
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Tullets was never about the liquid, more the powder type lunch. Especially late 90s probably the same now in the trade.

Hammer and Pickle 10:24 Mon Mar 12
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Head of desk at Tullet's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cwyq3XWeHE

dicksie3 10:19 Mon Mar 12
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Just Fridays for me.

Hammer and Pickle 9:58 Mon Mar 12
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It's probably uppers, charlie and downers these days.

VirginiaHam 9:54 Mon Mar 12
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I met a head of desk from one of the top four London FX brokers (Tullet's) in the mid 90s. My group was putting together a proposal to manage parts of their business and I waned to understand what this bloke saw as mission critical from his Comms. Department.

We met at a pub near Broad Street at 10.30, and I wandered out of there after 5 pints of Stella a 11.45.

Fortunately I'd warned my boss, and I was put on light duties for the afternoon and hidden away from public view.

Hammer and Pickle 8:40 Mon Mar 12
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Yeah Johnson

Whatever.

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/final-report-high-level-expert-group-fake-news-and-online-disinformation

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