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Personally I rarely drink anything, so not applicable to me.

But I had seen a good attitude from a colleague once: If you want me to put my normal life on hold for on-call shifts, that is fine with me. But then you need to pay me for that time as if I was sitting in the office: "So I'm going to be paid an additional 128hrs the week I'm on call, okay?"

In the specific case it was not about drinking but about weekend or evening trips with the family where the company expected the employee to sit at home instead and wait to potentially be paged.

People quickly came to the conclusion that some lowered expectations for the on-call person would be appropriate and working via a 4G connection from a notebook is totally acceptable.

I would say the experience is transferrable to drinking. Don't drink yourself into a stupor is sage advice, but we're not worrying about a bottle of wine, especially if it's shared over Dinner or such.