Denmark workers strike over lunch only beer rule

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Lunch-Only Beer Policy Prompts Carlsberg Strike
Published: Friday, 9 Apr 2010 * 9:45 AM ET Text Size By: Associated Press
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.

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.
 
(Workers) 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.

wow, I can't imagine that policy not working out.

Carlsberg had mulled a stricter drinking policy for years and finally decided to impose the new rules on April 1


I didn't see if you had a link, but my bullshit meter just pegged on max. I'm calling bullshit on this.
 
Which is easier to be when calm and relaxed and jovial. It's not like I get smashed at work. I won't even come in hung over (not that I've ever been hung over, I'm just saying).

Wait you don't get hung over because you don't get drunk enough or you have one of those God given gifts to not get hung over regardless of how much you drink?
 
I never get hung over to the point where I puke, can't look at light, and have huge headaches, which is how most people describe it, no matter how much I drink, even after I drank a whole bottle of whiskey in one night. I do get a mild hangover, though, where I feel fuzzy headed and tired.
 
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