Work colleagues

[ah-dee]

worst coffee related act i have seen from a colleague was in a place i worked about 7 years ago. they provided free milk, tea and coffee but the coffee was really nasty. it was that standard cash and carry instant shite so many people brought their own. one team leader put a sticker on his jar that read:-

"this coffee is (guys name). its only to be used by myself or other team leaders"

translation:- "all you minions keep your filthy working class hands off my nescafe gold"

people are shit. its a shite coffee anyway.

[Oooooft]

3 hours ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

No you’ve misunderstood when I say attitude. The above is absolutely correct.

What I meant was that you’ve always appeared to be of the stance that an employer shouldn’t essentially be costing you money to work there and so basic things like milk, tea and coffee that cost next to nothing I would have thought you’d expect them to provide. I certainly think they should.

I’d forgotten you don’t like tea and coffee though, so now see why you don’t care about it.

 

"Basic things".

 

Whit?

 

I fail to see why an employer would provide stuff for your break time.

Utter mentalness.

 

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

My work provides tea and coffee, and a hot water machine. There's also bread, butter, milk, an assortment of jams that sit on top of the microwave for months as nobody ever uses them, and various flavours of diluting juice.

[GordonD]

1 hour ago, ah-dee said:

worst coffee related act i have seen from a colleague was in a place i worked about 7 years ago. they provided free milk, tea and coffee but the coffee was really nasty. it was that standard cash and carry instant shite so many people brought their own. one team leader put a sticker on his jar that read:-

"this coffee is (guys name). its only to be used by myself or other team leaders"

translation:- "all you minions keep your filthy working class hands off my nescafe gold"

people are shit. its a shite coffee anyway.

Buy a jar of the cheapest coffee you can find. Wait until he's gone home then dump his coffee and replace it with the cheap shit.

[ah-dee]

Buy a jar of the cheapest coffee you can find. Wait until he's gone home then dump his coffee and replace it with the cheap shit.

nescafe gold = cheap shit

[red23]

4 hours ago, Adam said:

We get fresh fruit delivered from time to time, it's brilliant, and must cost them a significant amount of money over the year considering there are over 600 of us in this office alone.

Was a woman i worked with, took her two bits of free fruit as allowed come hell or high water yet never ate them. When asked why she takes them?  "because it's free, doesn't cost me anything does it?" Over 500 pieces of free fruit straight to the bin a year.

Same woman was offered a chance to use holidays instead of taking her sicks days (she was off for two weeks) because you get a bottle of champagne for not using any sick days in a year.....madness

[8MileBU]

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[Bairnardo]

Cant believe folk are arguing that workplaces shouldnt provide tea/coffee etc.

No wonder this country is utterly fucked.

Absolute Sun reader attitude.

[D.A.F.C]

First place I worked you paid £2 a month tea money. When I realised it was optional I jacked it. 2000 workers paying 50k a year!!

[IainMorton]

49 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

First place I worked you paid £2 a month tea money. When I realised it was optional I jacked it. 2000 workers paying 50k a year!!

£2 a month over twelve months = £50k...

[D.A.F.C]

48000 to be precise.

[IainMorton]

5 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

48000 to be precise.

Shouldn’t it be £24?  

[D.A.F.C]

Shouldn’t it be £24? [emoji14] 

X2000 workers
Hello mcfly

[JamesP_81]

X2000 workers
Hello mcfly

(I think he may have been being pedantic about your grammar)

[Cerberus]

First place I worked you paid £2 a month tea money. When I realised it was optional I jacked it. 2000 workers paying 50k a year!!

Seems a good deal to be honest.

Unless you don’t drink tea.

[parsforlife]

Can't help but feel this entire debate would be avoided if people weren't such weirdos who can't get through a work day without unnecessary acting like there preferred drink of choice is somehow a requirement to life.

[Crawford Bridge]

Working in an office sounds fucking awful.

[sparky88]

30 minutes ago, Crawford Bridge said:

Working in an office sounds fucking awful.

It fucking is.

[Lex]

Working in an office sounds fucking awful.

My thoughts exactly.

Tried it for a few months months a couple of years ago. When I had worked my way through The Office gags and then started assigning characters from those shows to colleagues I realised it was time to leave.

Never again, it was like a Kafka-esque prison

[mizfit]

We get free tea and coffee from the machines. Only thing is you need to bring your own mug as our office is now a “plastic free environment”