You say wasteful, I’d think very efficient. If it’s just enough fun to get everyone in an office to engage and use it, a manager now has an accurate tool to check who is where and what they’re doing. Plus if it actually makes anyone actually have a little fun with it and have a better day, bonus wins.

Another '96er here. I had teachers in my last couple years of highschool mention how wrong the saying was. Notably my machine shop teacher said it A LOT my freshman year (9th for non-US) and retired my senior (12th) year while saying “I guess you actually will have calculators in your pockets at all times now”. He wasn’t even behind on tech, calculators just being one of the standard things enmeshed in something as ubiquitous as cellphones would end up, just didn’t occur to him.

Part of what they’re saying is tequilas aren’t smokey. A good tequila is made with steamed blue agave. Mezcal is often made with roasted agave that gives it a smokey flavor, although this isn’t a requirement for it. Tequila is technically a mezcal (not all mezcal is tequila), with a more specific definition that should usually mean it’s pretty much never smokey.

Wait where can I get more info on this? A cursory search shows nothing.