Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
Better get off HN, worker-bee. Your company is trying to operate, and you're not contributing!
I’m happily taking PTO and not running my personal life by my manager for permission to drink.
You don't understand the dynamics of proper day drinking. If you drink early you get your hangover in the evening, then have a good sleep and a hangover free day after. Day drinking properly done has definitely its benefits - even for the company.
Why? Why is the company's operation more important than my friends? And why is that company so incompetent I can't take a (contractually agreed upon) day off without endangering its operation?