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Working in customer services may be enough to drive anyone to drink, including this employee caught with a "beer" can under his desk.

But anyone lifting the lid of that beverage would discover the worker was relying on a completely different vice to get him through his working day.

Ron, who prefers not to give his surname, who was disciplined for having alcohol in the office, revealed the offending beverage did not breach company rules at all - unless his office bans sex aids.

On pictures posted on photo site Imgur he displays the offending can, with its lid on, next to the employee discipline action form.

The form explains Ron has been placed on probation after the can was found under his desk.

It added he claimed it had been a present sent from China by his grandfather that he had forgotten about.

But if the boss had lifted the lid instead of filling in the form he would have found concealed beneath the lid a fully functioning fleshlight.

His post was greeted with a mixture of approval and puzzlement, with one reader posting: "Should have just showed it was a fleshlight, that probably isn't in the employee handbook...yet".

Another commented: "You're a sicko, I approve."

Which begs the question, is Ron too busy servicing himself to serve customers?