The deathly woe of office tea-making
Has this ever happened to you?
1. Put on office kettle for a cup of tea with exactly enough water to make yourself a cup AND NO MORE
2. Nip away for a quick trip to the toilet while kettle is boiling
3. Return, to find kettle has now been filled completely to the brim with freezing cold water and switched back on
4. Wait for five minutes, staring with hatred at the rogue mug now sitting next to yours
5. Make tea, return to desk, NEVER FIND OUT to whom the other mug belongs
I am sure you will agree that while this is - perhaps - not so bad as having both your legs sawn off at the knee whilst being forced to listen to a CD of the collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher, people HAVE DIED FOR LESS.
Has this ever happened to you?
6 comments:
Never happened to me - I have a woman who does the kettle stuff for me...and another one to bring me my bacon butty mid-morning.
*smug*
In our office if you make yourself a cup of tea and don't offer to make a whole round for everyone, you will lose your job. OK, maybe not lose your job, but the boss will ensure there is a lot of pointing and jeering from colleagues until you eventually quit from humiliation and have to spend a year in a retreat learning how to be more giving. No one ever forgets to offer a round.
I may be guilty, but I care not a jot for the selfish one cup brigade. Fill her up and let it boil, not my electricity or water for that matter
You just be glad that one cup of water didn't boil away completely dry, allowing the kettle to overheat and completely ruin it, thus rendering everyone tea-less for the duration. That, my son, really would be a hanging offence.
If you are going to continue to do this one-cup thing, I suggest you ensure you have a truly unidentifiable mug as well to ensure you get no nasty surprises upon opening one of your desk drawers.
Used to make tea for teachers and the sods would me we wash thair.mugs.
U tip the time we came back after Easter holidays and I poured the nice fresh lovely tea into their blue-hairy-with-fungus cups and didn't tell them till AFTER the break.
So so satisfying.
I believe the Met has come under fire recently for it's kettle techniques. Or something.
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