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" Everybody wants to drink at work. Because it&amp;#039;s drinking. And it&amp;#039;s work. Some people want to do it so much that while chaperoning their high school students on an overnight field trip, they get so drunk and so loud that their hotel&amp;#039;s management calls the police to get them kicked out. This actually just happened, according to The Tennessean, and it was cause enough for high school teacher Jared Phy to resign after a two-week investigation. All because he did it wrong. But there are ways to drink at work that won&amp;#039;t automatically result in tendering a resignation hungover. Luckily, our own Ross McCammon has waded into the topic of work drinking before \u2014 both on this site and, at a little greater length, on another. Most of Ross&amp;#039; wisdom is about post-work libations at the bar (&amp;quot;Only bring up business after the first drink&amp;quot;) or communal in-office drinking (&amp;quot;Every workplace should have a store of booze... Mainly brown booze: Scotch and bourbon. Some good tequila. Also, some gin.&amp;quot; And, of course, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t drink more than your boss.&amp;quot;). But one applies to all at-work drinking \u2014 including the discreet kind: Do not get drunk. To aid this, come hydrated and well fed. And don&amp;#039;t drink too much. To ensure this, drink at least half a glass of water for each drink. Sinatra supposedly did this. Even if he didn&amp;#039;t, you should. If you start with a whiskey, switch to beer after the second one. Some other advice: Invest in a flask; something slim, and not too ostentatious. But don&amp;#039;t drink from it. Instead, go with a college-era trick: use either opaque containers (like a disposable coffee cup) or ones that dissemble what the liquid actually is (certain lighter beers resemble apple juice). Then sip. You cannot grimace after each sip. Dead giveaway. And keep the sideways smirking with any coconspirators to a minimum. Because the damning tell probably isn&amp;#039;t the container. It&amp;#039;s you. So if you get to the point where, say, a police report would read, &amp;quot;[He] had blood shot watery eyes, slurred speech and had a strong odor associated with an alcoholic beverage, and was unsteady on his feet,&amp;quot; like it did for Mr. Phy here, well, you&amp;#039;re doing it wrong. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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