Seems like a perfectly measured response to me.
Making Drinks at Work...
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Seems like a perfectly measured response to me.
Never worked anywhere where people have done that with milk - other than those who used i.e. soya, but we do have 1-2 people who have their own coffee or sugar as they hate it (as do I) when people put spoons back in that are damp, etc. and you end up with clumpy sugar and/or bits of coffee in the sugar or sugar in the coffee, etc.
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Whenever I start a new job I let everybody know that I make my own drink to avoid childish squabbles, its actually a lot quicker... plus it gets me off my ass and gets blood flowing in my legs.
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We get rounds in and take it in turns. Some people don't join in as they don't drink them or prefer to take a break and get one themselves. People annoy me when they drink them and never get them.
But perhaps they are doing us a favour and stopping us drinking so much coffee which means less caffeine for all.
But perhaps they are doing us a favour and stopping us drinking so much coffee which means less caffeine for all.
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At our place everybody is more than happy to make others a drink if they're making one for themselves. In fact I think my boss (i.e. the man with his name above the door) has made more for me than I have total. The only exception to this rule is one other director who refuses to make anyone else a drink, BUT, he also refuses to let anyone make one for him so it's fair enough.
Everybody at work knows that I won't have a coffee before 10, which is now affectionately known as 'coffee o'clock'.
Everybody at work knows that I won't have a coffee before 10, which is now affectionately known as 'coffee o'clock'.
just because i didnt use it regular doesnt mean he had the right to chip away 3 times a day at a full jar of coffee that wasnt his and did not ask to use, and only after he had used all mine did he go out and buy his own..
so when i did want a coffee i would have to purchase a new one when there should have been a near full one there
i am pretty cool though, just not with blatent theifs.. it may only be coffee but it was not his to steal
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1st workplace (2000-1): 16 of us working in a library, so we normally made our own drinks.
2nd workplace (2003-9): 4 of us in an IT department. We did rounds, but there was one guy who always refused his drink when it was my round.
3rd workplace (2010-present): 8 of us in a customer services department across 2 offices. We all did rounds, but only for the office that they were in.
2nd workplace (2003-9): 4 of us in an IT department. We did rounds, but there was one guy who always refused his drink when it was my round.
3rd workplace (2010-present): 8 of us in a customer services department across 2 offices. We all did rounds, but only for the office that they were in.
We do rounds. At most it's 5 or 6, but usually 3 or 4. We take it in turns, but whoever finishes their drink first and wants another one for themselves, will probably make the next round. Even if it means they've made 2 or 3 on the run. Although we do try to even it out, it results in some people (the heavy tea drinkers) making more than the others (the lightweights, i.e. me).
It's bad form to get up and make yourself a cuppa and no one else. You'd get a severe (tongue in cheak) telling off and forced to go back out and make the rest. But it's how we watch-keepers work - we spend 12 hours a shift, days & nights, with each other.
If a senior member of staff is on duty and in the building they'll expect one to be made for them if they happen to walk in just as we're making one. However, they seldom return the favour, unless we're in the middle of big job and can't release anyone to make the brew.
On the other side are the 'office staff' that despite working in close proximity and no more than 5 or 6 at a time, always make their own.
It's one of the things I'll miss if I find myself in a place that does it differently.
It's bad form to get up and make yourself a cuppa and no one else. You'd get a severe (tongue in cheak) telling off and forced to go back out and make the rest. But it's how we watch-keepers work - we spend 12 hours a shift, days & nights, with each other.
If a senior member of staff is on duty and in the building they'll expect one to be made for them if they happen to walk in just as we're making one. However, they seldom return the favour, unless we're in the middle of big job and can't release anyone to make the brew.
On the other side are the 'office staff' that despite working in close proximity and no more than 5 or 6 at a time, always make their own.
It's one of the things I'll miss if I find myself in a place that does it differently.
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Petty?
He did what I'd probably do.There are certain things you don't do in life - stealing someone else's vittles is one of them.
I'm in a fairly large office. No rounds are happening. Sometimes groups will venture to the coffee machine, where it is polite to have a natter with any other people currently using it to make a coffee. It's a nicer dynamic than getting annoyed with people for not getting rounds or 'stealing your coffee'.
