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I'm an intern and signed up for our first pre interview dinner next week. I'm looking forward to representing our program and the free food doesn't hurt. We were informed at our weekly conference that the program would not be paying for alcohol at the dinners. I can't say I agree with the decision but it is obviously not mine to make. I probably had alcohol at about half of my dinners (including this one) always following the lead of the resident and it was always paid for. Never had more than 1 beverage other than one place where a resident, his wife, and I split a bottle of wine and another brewhouse where the resident kept ordering pitchers of beer. I would hope I could trust doctoral students not to overindulge!
It is up to our own discretion if we wish to have alcohol on our own tab but they ask us to "consider not" in order to not alienate a candidate who doesn't drink among a couple other reasons.
I haven't looked at the final list of potential restaurants but I know ones being considered included a sushi restaurant and a local pizza joint (sounds stupid for a dinner but it's a really neat place and is a local landmark) with a microbrewery. In other words, places where I would almost always have a drink if I were there under any other circumstance.
How do I bring this up so as to minimize the awkwardness? Does it need to be addressed directly? "Hey welcome to our city, we're not paying for alcohol" or can candidates reasonably be trusted to follow my lead if I don't? If I want a microbrew with my pizza I don't see anything wrong with that so I guess it would be more of a "we'll put the alcohol on separate bills."
It is up to our own discretion if we wish to have alcohol on our own tab but they ask us to "consider not" in order to not alienate a candidate who doesn't drink among a couple other reasons.
I haven't looked at the final list of potential restaurants but I know ones being considered included a sushi restaurant and a local pizza joint (sounds stupid for a dinner but it's a really neat place and is a local landmark) with a microbrewery. In other words, places where I would almost always have a drink if I were there under any other circumstance.
How do I bring this up so as to minimize the awkwardness? Does it need to be addressed directly? "Hey welcome to our city, we're not paying for alcohol" or can candidates reasonably be trusted to follow my lead if I don't? If I want a microbrew with my pizza I don't see anything wrong with that so I guess it would be more of a "we'll put the alcohol on separate bills."