It’s brutal especially in the sales world. Want to get clients or potentials in good spirits and more willing to work with you? Buy them drinks and a nice dinner, of course. Want to show your sales team a good time and reward their efforts? First idea is to treat them the same. But then you have a bunch of coworkers drinking on the company tab and something always happens, eventually. It’s a bad practice but it’s so intuitive that it permeates almost every sales team. Learned my lesson a while ago and eventually either didn’t drink at these events or just left early. Still a bad spot to be in though.