[Roberton3]

I can count on two fingers the number of professionals that I've seen that got that drunk at a work function.

...I'm not defending Sarkisian, whose behavior was boorish at best. But the mere fact that he was under the influence at a banquet does not strike me, in and of itself, as evidence that he's an alchoholic or has lost all sense of professional propriety.

Mick didn't say "got drunk" -- he said "got that drunk".  And in my earlier comment I said I'd never been "drunker than I should have been" at a work function.  I've been drunk at work functions, but only those where it was completely appropriate to do so (indeed, in almost every case, drinking any less would have been a faux pas).

The point here isn't that Sark got drunk.  It's that he got drunk enough to make him and his employer look bad.

[Roberton3]

I can count on two fingers the number of professionals that I've seen that got that drunk at a work function.

...I'm not defending Sarkisian, whose behavior was boorish at best. But the mere fact that he was under the influence at a banquet does not strike me, in and of itself, as evidence that he's an alchoholic or has lost all sense of professional propriety.

Mick didn't say "got drunk" -- he said "got that drunk".  And in my earlier comment I said I'd never been "drunker than I should have been" at a work function.  I've been drunk at work functions, but only those where it was completely appropriate to do so (indeed, in almost every case, drinking any less would have been a faux pas).

The point here isn't that Sark got drunk.  It's that he got drunk enough to make him and his employer look bad.