My father tells me that the workplace was a lot like that during the 1960s. Men literally chasing the secretaries around. Executives really did have liquor cabinets in their office (at company expense) with which to celebrate deals and entertain important clients. After work, the men (and some of the women) often went to a local watering hole before heading home.
I entered the workplace at the very tail end of that era. My earliest memories of work is the click-clacking of typewriters (we still had a secretarial pool) and the liquid lunches. I remember my first lunch with the guys and I ordered an iced tea. All the other guys went ahead and ordered gin and tonics and such and they asked me if I was a recovering alcoholic or something. By the second round, I got on board and they all cheered and toasted me.
That was mid 1980s. Within a decade, having alcohol during working hours was considered a terminable offense. Also, the secretaries were gone and managers were issued desktop computers and expected to do their own word processing and spreadsheets. I remember taking classes on WordPerfect 5.1 and Quattro Pro 4.0.
The 1960s were different, for sure!
Those of us that a reason to go from our building to the Executive bldg. on the last day before Xmas shutdown were stopped by the President as we walked past his office. He would tell us to come into his office, where there was a bar with many bottles and ice buckets. He actually poured the drinks for us and would talk with us for about 20 minutes.
In the 1970s, my department (like others) sometimes had offsite conferences/meetings. Each was stocked with plenty of booze.
The liquor came from what was referred to as the “company liquor locker”. The standing rule was that if a seal had been broken on a bottle, it could not be returned to the “locker”. Many of us took several bottles home with us.
btw... The company was a major defense contractor.
Rules changed in the 1980s.
Back in the early sixties there was a week long phenomenon on Wall Street that I remember being reported on television. A woman who was more than amply endowed, similar to Joan on Mad Men, would go to lunch and more and more men would wait for her to leave the building where she workd and follow her and catcall her.
There were hundreds if not thousands. It was a mini event of the time. I think she started eating at her desk.
IIRC she wasnt particularly beautiful, but she was stacked.