Trending: People Drinking at Work Again

→ Introduce your inbox to a 9-to-5 Spritz™

📋 Ingredients:

• 2 oz Aperol (because it feels like productivity)
• 3 oz Prosecco (bubbly enough to distract you from HR)
• 1 oz cold brew coffee (because you’re still pretending to finish something)
• Soda water top (fizz = plausible deniability)
• Orange slice (garnish your burnout)
• Optional: single ice cube made from tears of ambition

🛠️ Instructions:

1. Pour Aperol and cold brew into a wine glass. Stir gently while thinking about quitting.
2. Add Prosecco like you’re announcing good news no one asked for.
3. Top with soda water until it threatens to spill—just like your inbox.
4. Garnish with an orange slice shaped like a pie chart no one understands.
5. Serve over Slack, Zoom, or whatever app you’re pretending to still use.

📎 Serving Suggestion:

Enjoy with a spreadsheet open, your camera off, and the phrase “looping back!” typed but never sent.

⚠️ Disclaimer:

The Puzzling Times™ does not condone workplace drinking unless it’s been a day, a week, or a fiscal quarter.