That’s just about the time I was starting my professional career in MA and shocked to find that getting sloshed every lunchtime, then meeting up for the happy hours after work, was considered good form.
But things definitely changed quickly in the latter ‘80s.
During the eighties I discovered that all I had to do to advance beyond my peers was to stay sober until after five PM. People were smoking pot, snorting coke and drinking at lunch. The VP had a tapper in his office, the service department kept a fridge full of beer, customers “Tipped” with joints or lines and the sales managers incentive program was to spiff the sales staff with cocaine.