Employer over reach, or good global citizen forcing a change?

I would have stopped serving all food, waited for the other employees to make gluten boy miserable and quit, and then bring back the snacks with gluten sprinkles. I

 

The place I used to work for did that. No reimbursement for alcohol unless it was a customer meal (i.e. business meal). It was interesting to see how many of the road employees "found" customers to have meals with.

I don't drink, but after I left them I had a steady stream of offers for dinner - I was there to make it possible for them to have a beer with dinner after a long day dealing with customer issues. I'm told actual expenses for meals went up rather than down.
I believe they did change the policy when they got a new CEO - I haven't had too many meal offers in the last 9 months or so.

 

The last company I worked for had a no alcohol rule. I just bought my drink separate from my meal so it didn't show up on the bill...
I am not sure if I am just from a puritan state so its the culture around here, but I never expect alcohol to be covered.

I just went to a conference where they had open bars at the after events - it was really bizarre. Firefighters can drink a lot of tequila. Just sayin'.

 

So glad to work for a <100 employee company and not in corporate hell. I expense alcohol for both clients and employees when appropriate. This is at the owners encouragement and we are still tight enough that we can have a "don't be stupid and fuck it up" policy. I don't try and liquor up potential clients into deals, but we are a service business and have to sell on relationships which means I need to develop a relationship not too dissimilar from personal relationships...which typically evolve these days with shared plates and drinks. For employees, this is a very high stress industry for no actual reason and that wears on people - but the people with money to spend dictate that. Sometimes I need to bring in mimosas instead of bagels and sometimes we need to knock off early and hit a happy hour after a couple of all nighters.

Bottom line, if I couldn't expense alcohol, I would still need to pay for it out of pocket because adults drink alcohol and I have a social responsibility (I feel) to my clients and the employees in my office.

 

Can someone post a link about the story that isn't behind a paywall? Or at least tell me what it's about.

 

Short form:
Some progressive fool that owns a company wants all his employee to drink from the fountain of vegan, climate change, socialism while continuing to enrich him at the top. So is limiting meal payback to non-meat and other intrusive better than thou nonsense.

 

open it up in an incognito browser window... someone here suggested that a while back and it works great.

 

Thanks, that worked. Raising meat is pretty wasteful and not very environmentally friendly. I think I read somewhere it takes almost 2,000 gallons of freshwater to process one pound of meat and animal farts are one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas. Still not going to stop me from eating steak. Maybe no meat is this company’s CSR campaign? Whatever. It’s their money.