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[–] 53 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Heck yeah. Time to go drive a fork lift

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Ha, I had a bunch of family who worked at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, NJ, many, many years back, and beer on breaks was obviously a thing. What a time to be alive.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    they just closed our AB brewery :(

    i coulda been stapelfahrer klaus... or more likely stapelfahrer klaused

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  • [–] 84 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50's. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.

    And given what they lived through... well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work...

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    The cigarette vending machine is not pictured, just to the right

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This was their mental health care.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    I've been to startups where the liquor cabinet is open, and everyone was young and party happy.

    They pay accordingly. It's the young persons pizza party

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The royal navy had a similar method to maintain morale and keep sailors happy.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No. They were loyal because there was a pension.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    boozestraps

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    They had a beer tap but accounting told them they were losing money from all the bathroom breaks.

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