When I started at my company
which was in the days before the Credit Crunch (as will become apparent), We had a fridge full of booze in the office. It was replenished once a week, and no questions were ever asked about where the booze went.

Come Christmas, I also received a Fortnum and Mason Christmas hamper as a present from a supplier and a Romeo y Julieta cigar from my boss.

Hence scruffy young me, fresh into a graduate job, turning up at a friend's dinner party in North London, already fairly tipsy, smoking a cigar, and brandishing 6 bottles of champagne and a weighty selection of fine condiments, cakes, and wines.

To be fair, I think most of the other guests thought I was a bit of a cunt...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 14:22, 5 replies)

Excellent! I had the good idea to clear out the beer fridge after work once (and after the pub..) to discover my colleague already in action. We split the contents (he couldn't carry 20 bottles of beer) and we cycled off toasting our ingenuity. Beer theft ftw!
(skgorsky, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 14:28, closed)

They also used to allow you to
order takeaways on expenses if you had to work after 8pm. Me and a mate used to sometimes pop to the pub opposite at five thirty, have a few pints, then head back to the office at 8:01 and order two large pizzas, to be washed down with beers from the communal fridge. Never, ever got told off for this.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:37, closed)

Fortnum and Mason christmas hamper?
i'd have been jealous as hell!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 19:36, closed)

I was disappointed
by the Christmas pudding, which wasn't any better than one you could buy from Asda, but the marmalade, the wine, etc., was lovely.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 20:51, closed)

priced one a couple of years ago
as a present for my sister. fucker would have cost me most of my gift budget for the whole family!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 18:15, closed)