So this is why lawyers spend all that time at the office...

[Leadeye]

I've spent my entire business career trying to avoid needing lawyers, but like alcoholic beverages, they are useful on occasion.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Ummmm.... I hate to be picky but did you mean Wang Chung??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chung_(band)

No, Wing Chun. I did Wing Chun drills after I ran tonight.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

As some of you know, I am a tea-totaler meaning that I am capable of doing the stupid stuff perfectly sober that others need to drink to do.

I find your ways odd and barbaric, Auslander, but I like you anywho.

 

[KJQ6945]

If you've never gotten drunk with your lawyer, you need a better lawyer.

 

[hoosierdoc]

As some of you know, I am a tea-totaler meaning that I am capable of doing the stupid stuff perfectly sober that others need to drink to do.

In medical school we had a huge physiology test. Like 120 questions. The only one I missed was because
they said someone was a tea-totaler. I had no idea what that meant. I assumed that meant they drank a ton of alcohol.

highest score in my class but would have had a 100% if not for that stupid word

 

[hoosierdoc]

If I could drinkat work I might not hate my job so much.

What is your occupation?

 

[Trigger Time]

I've hung out with the hot crazy matrix lawyer and hes the coolest lawyer I've met.

 

[Expat]

Pfft.... not sure what to make of doctors. The TV ones said I should drink 1-2 drinks a day for my heart.
I told my doctor that I was having a drink every day and he said I was an alcoholic if I was drinking every day and needed to knock it off.

 

[jsharmon7]

That is a tough one because she was not intoxicated when she showed up to work. They intoxicated her and then sent her packing and got hit with a train. Certainly no duty unless you are responsible for her becoming altered. IMO

With whom does “responsibility” lie? Was she forced at gunpoint to drink alcohol? If not, she made a choice. To be fair, I’ve never agreed with a bar being sued for someone getting too drunk either.

 

[femurphy77]

We had an employee literally falling down drunk at work one day. When I took it "upstairs" the person in charge responded the he should probably send him home. I strongly urged him to not allow this employee to drive the 30 miles home but to arrange transportation to mitigate any possible liability.

I have a problem with the scenario presented in the OP, she was too drunk to remain at work so they threw her out and locked the doors behind her I would think that would tend to place some of the responsibility on them.

Just opinion, don't know the legal ins and outs. And I don't consider this the same as being thrown out of a bar for being too drunk.

Really I'm just rambling to get to 13k posts.