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To: Drew68

I miss the days of the minibar and cigarettes in executive suites


27 posted on 05/20/2023 7:02:20 PM PDT by chuckee ( )
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To: chuckee
I miss the days of the minibar and cigarettes in executive suites…

We used to be a proper country.

28 posted on 05/20/2023 7:14:32 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024. A real conservative.)
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My father was an assistant general manager at his firm during the 1960s. He's still around today at the age of 86.

Some of my earliest memories of him was seeing him at work with clouds of cigarette smoke all around. In fact, there was a cigarette vending machine in the office.

As he saw "Mad Men", I asked him if it was true that there was drinking at work and he absolutely confirmed it, so far as management was concerned. The employees were generally forbidden but any manager with an office had hard liquor in their desk drawers. The executives had the actual mini-bars and they were able to get reimbursed for the liquor they bought for it as "entertainment expense". Anytime there was a major client win, the bottles came out and the celebrations began, usually ending late at night in a nearby restaurant/bar.

There was also a lot of "secretary chasing" in those days.

29 posted on 05/20/2023 7:19:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,181,324 Truth | 87,174,230 Twitter)
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