Office/Work Kitchen

place i worked at suffered from bursting at the seams and 200+ people sharing a kitchen designed really for maybe 40.

2 vending machines, at least reasonably priced

boiler, 3 microwaves (your choices were underpowered, average but impossible to program, or 2kw industrial that could turn anything to carbon in 10 seconds), a sink that would constantly back up issuing forth a smell that defies description, and a fridge.

apart from that it was bring your own tea, cup, milk, food etc etc.

needless to say people lived on green tea and sandwiches, and at least half of the people ate at their desk because space was severely lacking.

i won't even begin on the state of the bogs

that said, i'm making the place sound terrible but it really wasn't, the people were a freindly bunch and the work was varied enough to keep you entertained and busy, it was just a symptom of a company having vastly outgrown its facilities.
 
We get tea, coffee, milk, hot chocolate. Most of us buy our own coffee as the free ground coffee is awful. Our newer offices get lots more free stuff. :( Though we're moving to shiny new building soon and will get the same.
 
We get free tea coffee and there is a kitchen.

In my industry that's a bare minimum I would expect.
Sometimes I'm at work for a very long time, I'm definitely not paying for coffee.
 
I find it odd that office bods get loads of free stuff at work like tea coffee, fresh fruit, but the real workers outside get virtually nothing for free, your no more special working in an office than those outside.
 
Spook187 said:
I find it odd that office bods get loads of free stuff at work like tea coffee, fresh fruit, but the real workers outside get virtually nothing for free, your no more special working in an office than those outside.
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What 'real' work do you do?

You sound as bitter as my free coffee!

I dont think you need to be special to get free coffee/tea at work, i think it should be the bare minimum offered by a company regardless of the work you do, as long as it is of no great cost or inconvenience to the company. I offer tea or coffee to whoever comes to my house or office to carry out a job.

Weird to see someone so bitter and jealous over something so petty. Its not like office workers swagger into the work kitchen at 9am with their bag for life and start shoving a months supply of teabag, coffee and fruit in to sell at extortionate prices to non office folk.
 
We have an overpriced vending machine, with crisps, chocolate and soft drinks, in each floors kitchen. There's also a water dispenser, microwave and a couple of fridges. Free coffee, tea and squash.

... but now we also have these these large, highly technical, coffee machines ... all lights and touch screens and engineers with them in bits as they've broken (again ... when they were put in we went through 3 different models in a couple of weeks as they couldn't cope)
 
Avenged7Fold said:
What 'real' work do you do?

You sound as bitter as my free coffee!

I dont think you need to be special to get free coffee/tea at work, i think it should be the bare minimum offered by a company regardless of the work you do, as long as it is of no great cost or inconvenience to the company. I offer tea or coffee to whoever comes to my house or office to carry out a job.

Weird to see someone so bitter and jealous over something so petty. Its not like office workers swagger into the work kitchen at 9am with their bag for life and start shoving a months supply of teabag, coffee and fruit in to sell at extortionate prices to non office folk.
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Not bitter but you have to be equal in a work place, if you think it's petty why not give it to all workers, there is absolutely no reason why you should not.
 
At my previous place we had nowt but water, we weren't even allowed to keep our own food in the kitchen area. But that's only because management sided with some Tumblrina hambeast when she played the victim card and complained that the food in the kitchen was tempting her from her diet. The diet, I hasten to add, that never seemed to bother her outside of work when she was shovelling KFC buckets down her chubby gullet.
 
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We have a couple of free coffee machines on each floor with coffee(instant,latte,espresso etc etc),tea, hot water, "chicken" soup & hot chocolate. Also cold water machines and a reasonably priced canteen and vending machines.

Also, are you expecting building sites to now provide coffee machines outside too for all those " real workers " ? As said above, should be courtesy for most places to provide a cuppa etc, but how can somewhere like that have free facilities on every site? :D
 
tomparker95 said:
We have a couple of free coffee machines on each floor with coffee(instant,latte,espresso etc etc),tea, hot water, "chicken" soup & hot chocolate. Also cold water machines and a reasonably priced canteen and vending machines.
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was going to post a clip of the chicken soup sketch from red dwarf, but apparently nobody's made a yt clip of it :(
 
Spook187 said:
Not bitter but you have to be equal in a work place, if you think it's petty why not give it to all workers, there is absolutely no reason why you should not.
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My company and every other company i have worked for offer coffee and tea for all workers, whether they are shop staff, maintenance guys or office workers. What company does not allow non office workers the same refreshment perks as their colleagues on the same work site?
 
tomparker95 said:
Also, are you expecting building sites to now provide coffee machines outside too for all those " real workers " ? As said above, should be courtesy for most places to provide a cuppa etc, but how can somewhere like that have free facilities on every site? :D
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Most building sites with a place to plug a kettle in usually has one.
 
We have an office with 300 people over 3 floors. Each floor has a kitchen with a couple of microwaves, large fridge and hot and cold water dispensers. We provide normal and decaf tea, instant normal and decaf coffee, cordials, sugar, sweeteners, skimmed and semi-skimmed milk and regular fresh fruit. We also provide fresh fruit a couple of times a month, and there's junk in vending machines if people want to pay for it. We also do a few ad hoc things during the year, like free strawberries at the start of Wimbledon, arrange an ice cream van if we're in a scorcher in summer, fresh muffins / sausage rolls in winter etc. It feels like a reasonable balance between going over the top and ensuring staff are comfortable at work.
 
Just basic cheapest of the cheap tea (Tetleys) and coffee (Nescafe) at my work kitchen that nobody drinks. No milk in the fridge. Flickering fluorescent strip light overhead. There was some Rich Tea biscuits once that the boss said was reserved for visitors but ended up going stale.
 
free tea/coffee/water machines all over the building, and a subsidised restaurant for lunch and breakfast.

The restaurant is pretty decent as well. It's canteen stuff really but they are making a big hooha at the moment about bringing in some 'executive chef' to spruce up our menu, which will be nice.

Since they opened the restaurant for breakfast though, I've been eating way too much bacon and sausage :(
 
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