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

[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.