Americans, behaving badly

[jay]

Things *were* calm here... I made paella for dinner, then breakfast for the guys, then we went back to drilling today, right? Not so... sigh. (link to comment in patgreene's journal)

[Update: the miscreants were fined on the spot as well as having to pay up-front damages, all in cash... they are free to go, but 1200 euros poorer. Which is painful, but hopefully they've learned from it... ]

Comments

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm thinking that the hooliganism wouldn't have occurred absent the intoxication, and if one is choosing to get so drunk that one will not be able to curb inappropriate impulses (sure, I've thought of smashing a window, but I've never _done_ it), one is engaging in behavior that is detrimental to one's employment.

[princeofwands.livejournal.com]

But is the case especially different if they'd done it while in their home town? Or on non-work travel abroad? Or on a weeklong vacation to a different foreign locale in the middle of a long work trip?

I note that in this case it wasn't drunk with coworkers, it wasn't drunk at work, and it didn't impact his work or workplace performance - it was his last night in Spain.

But again, my core disagreement with you is that I don't see this as a "don't drink (to excess) with coworkers" problem as much as a "don't drink to the point of violence" problem. Different scales involved in my perception. Shrug. Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe.