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This sounds useful for people who have to mingle with alcohol as part of their job. Kind of defeats the purpose for recreational drinkers though.

What job makes you drink alcohol ?

Two that spring to mind are enterprise sales and computer security (for different reasons).

I'd add quality assurance / testing to the list

when i worked in asia fora short while drinking with coworkers was effectively mandatory.

"optional" but in practice mandatory