“The days of reporters drinking and brawling together after work are gone,” Helen Kennedy, a reporter for The Daily News, lamented in an e-mail. “Everyone goes to the gym now, or home to their 2.5 kids.”

braiker:

timeoutnewyork:

capitalnewyork:

Um, we disagree.

Yeah, some of our best drinking buddies are our coworkers.

I don’t know. Rings fairly true. I mean, I’ve done some solid carousing with colleagues. Newsweekers can draaank. The ABC kids can tie one on when they want to — once in a great while. Rolling Stoners? Shockingly lame.

But something tells me this all pales compared to the olden days — like when Time Inc. had a drinks cart that would circle the newsroom on closing nights. Somehow I don’t see that happening at Bloomberg News. 

Truth. Two things: The drinks cart didn’t just come around on closing nights. And I’m pretty sure that if Bloomberg did do drinks it would be in the form of an IV hooked up to your Bloomberg box that carefully monitors your gin intake. 

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    I wish I lived that life on old newspaper row.
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    Missed awesome portmanteau opportunity: “gintake.”
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    Truth. Two things: The drinks cart didn’t just come around on closing nights. And I’m pretty sure that if Bloomberg did...
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    I don’t know. Rings fairly true. I mean, I’ve done some solid carousing with colleagues. Newsweekers can draaank. The...
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    Yeah, some of our best drinking buddies are our coworkers.
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