May 25, 2007
Never fear your embarrassing hangover at work - you can now legitimately blame your boss!
Guru has learned of new research that says if there is a relaxed attitude to boozing in the workplace - during lunch hours, after work and the like - it tends to lead to heavier drinking at home.
So, when you slope into work feeling like you are at death's door, wondering why oh whyyyyy did you drink that "one last glass" of wine, you don't have to hide it. It's bullying and peer pressure from the workplace that has caused you to be like this.
And Guru has even found a posh term for you to use to prove your 'illness' is a result of work pressure. Remember this - you are suffering from Veisalgia - 'the sum of unpleasant physiological effects following heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages'.
Now, there's a catch. The research relates purely to people in Canada and North America - so you may find a slight problem convincing your boss it's true for UK businesses.
But it will be published in the (formal and proper) Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal. The facts are that "workers in organisations that most discouraged social drinking were 45% less likely to be heavy drinkers than those in workplaces with the most relaxed attitudes to drinking", Dr Benjamin Amick, of the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto, told Metro.
Guru invites anyone with similar alcohol-infused strains at work to write in with their stories. That's if you're not spending too much time on the loo.
