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Tea and coffee at work

hiccup said:
We have a kettle. Instant coffee, various sorts of tea, milk and sugar are all provided free of charge. People usually offer to make anyone else one that wants one, but then there's often only 3 or 4 people in the office, so not too taxing.
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More or less the same where I work, except we all pay a couple of quid every couple of months towards the cost. We also have a supply of cheap cans and snacks which you have to pay 25p for. Rather annoyingly the office manager is always sneaking off to make herself a sly cuppa, if anyone else did that she'd be the first to complain though :rolleyes:

We have the crappiest kitchen ever which is quite ironic considering the company I work for supplies catering equipment :D
 
Bumped to whine about new gig. No sinks, fridges or leccy points. Basement canteen staffed by baristas who should be struck off: their coffee costs £1 a cup and tastes like acrid soup. Vending machines dispense thimblefuls of what can only be mellow birds mixed with coffeemate and lukewarm water, at 20p a go. The vending machines work roughly 50% of the time, so it's easy to spend 60p in vain.

Coffee should not be a profit centre, should it? Or is this normal?
 
recession is hitting everything, new set up for me coffee, tea, sweets, biscuits, mints all free..hot water pot.
 
we have coffee, huge variety of teas, herbal, earl grey, de-caff etc. Free milk and sugar. Kitchen with 2 fridges, 2 kettles, microwave. I use any excuse i can to make tea and coffee as it gets me out of the office and into gossip zone
 
Reno said:
I hate this whole this whole palaver of having to make tea for up to ten people if you want a beverage where I'm working. We have a lot of bickering about whose turn it is. I get especially irritated when after someone asked the whole room if anybody wants tea, they then go round asking everybody individually. The reason I often don't answer the first time is because I don't want tea and I really have to concentrate in my job and when that happens (usually every 30 minutes) I loose my thread. In every other country people just nip into the kitchen to make their own tea/coffe/vodka tonic instead making a big song and dance about it all.
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Completely agree. I'm not making up to 15 cups of tea/coffee/herbal/fruit tea/liquorice tea/"just hot water"/"leave the bag in a bit longer". No way. I put my money into the tea club and make my own. If it was just the 4 people around me OK, but the whole naffing floor? Every time? Forget that. Funnily enough, of the (normal, well adjusted) types who do do the collective bit, there are no arguments and everyone seems happy to waste their bleeding time in making massive tea rounds.
 
It's all gone a bit political at our place now. We all pay into a kitty now for milk, tea bags, etc (I'm sure paying for that out of petty cash wouldn't break the bank, but that's another matter...) and we take turns making a pot of tea and a couple of cups of coffee to bring into the office for people to help themselves to. Unfortunately a couple of people don't like taking their turn and go out of their way to avoid it, but equally they aren't keen on the everyone doing their own thing approach :facepalm:

and our kitchen is still shite :D
 
Free tea/coffee/chocolate vending machine on each floor. Restaurant on the ground floor which sells "proper" tea/coffee at god-knows-what price.

When someone goes to get a drink it's the done thing to ask everyone else in the vicinity if they want a drink too, so you can easily end up getting half a dozen or more cups. Me, I rarely go to get drinks relying instead on more junior members of staff to get me drinks :p When I do go and get a round of drinks I like to think it counts for more because I'm further up the food chain :D

One of my colleages is one level further up than me (i.e. he reports to the board directly) and I always try to avoid him getting me a drink.

Don't underestimate the beverage politics in big companies.
 
Boss provides tea, coffee, milk, hot choocie etc and the kettle in the kitchen. If you want a cup, other than at the usual times it is DIY. For the usual breaks, normally one particular person makes a full round and brings the tray out into the workshop; if I'm "in the office" I either get "Teeeea Upppp!!!" or the mug left next to the keyboard......when that specific person is not available, we take it in turns. A cuouple of weeks ago, one of the young lads was acting up a bit, so his "forfeit" was to be on KP for the rest of the day - he made decent tea/coffee and washed up properly !
 
gentlegreen said:
:eek:

It dribbles anyway so it's time for a new teapot :cool:
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Just rub a little bit of butter on the outside of the spout.

We have to bring our own in of everything, everyone keeps their mugs in their lockers and milk is regularly stolen from the fridge.
At 11am one of the dinnerladies brings up a bag of goodies and sells a small cup of tea for 30p.
 
porp said:
Completely agree. I'm not making up to 15 cups of tea/coffee/herbal/fruit tea/liquorice tea/"just hot water"/"leave the bag in a bit longer". No way. I put my money into the tea club and make my own. If it was just the 4 people around me OK, but the whole naffing floor? Every time? Forget that. Funnily enough, of the (normal, well adjusted) types who do do the collective bit, there are no arguments and everyone seems happy to waste their bleeding time in making massive tea rounds.
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Worked in one place where the entire workforce had hot chocolate at 3pm (regardless of how hot it was) which was quite nice and communal.
They had a list of about a dozen people's tea and coffee preferences so the temp doing it could get it right without having to ask. Thought this was quite sensible.
 
We have free vending machines and also a Costa Coffee in the building. Everyone gets their own.

When I worked in Paris, I used to have to get coffee for the boss. It used to annoy me so much.
 
Free tea/coffee (full caf and decaf)/sugar/milk at both sites i work at. 75% of the time i'm on my own,. the rest of the time, my colleague HAS to have her coffee made in a certain way that she doesn't trust anyone else to get right, so i only ever make a cuppa for me :)
 
Hellsbells said:
we have coffee, huge variety of teas, herbal, earl grey, de-caff etc. Free milk and sugar. Kitchen with 2 fridges, 2 kettles, microwave. I use any excuse i can to make tea and coffee as it gets me out of the office and into gossip zone
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Same for us, we are very lucky!
 
It's bring yer own, pay 70 peee upwards for tea and coffee or do without at ours.Company provides hot and cold water :D
 
Every person for them-selves, I have a cafetierre/tea pot and bring my own coffee usually Lavazza and Yorkshire tea (gold) bags, sometimes people steal each other’s milk, it gets personal. War against all...
 
We get nothing at work not even a staff room.We have small canteen but that opens Mon-Fri 9am-2pm and most staff work shifts including night work 7 days a week..:D We also hot desk and in one small office we have put a fridge,kettle,toaster & microwave that we purchased ourselves so no tea/coffee is not provided.

We used to do a fund for tea/coffee/milk which was £2 per month but the larger team was split into 2 so now the team I am in just brings in stuff to share on a as & when basis which seems to work.
 
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