Luckily I work out and about or at home quite a lot, but I also have an office that I need to go to regularly. In the last 60 minutes I have been asked 3 times if I would like a drink. THE KITCHEN IS 15-20m AWAY! IF I WANT A ****ING DRINK I CAN GO AND GET ONE THANK YOU! I predict, based on previous experience, that by the end of the day I will have been asked if I want a drink 8-10 times. Each time I will say 'No, I'm ok thanks' but will that prevent me being asked again in the future. Of course it ****ing won't. It's absolute torture, having to hear them ask each person, knowing they're coming to me soon. Usually people will only ask others in their own team, but there's one colleague who asks everybody on the floor. I want her dead. JUST GET YOURSELF A ****ING DRINK! No wonder office workers suffer from not getting out of their chairs enough - there's too many twats insistent on saving us the effort!
Ha! If I had it my way Mrs. Doyle would have had a shovel slicing between her head and her neck on many an occasion.
Professional time wasters - how better to piss away 20% of your working day than to make 15 coffees every time you get up for a drink?
I never offer to make anyone a drink. Ever. I drink about ten cups a day, that would mean all I would do at work would be making coffee for everyone else.
In a previous job, we had a tea lady who would do three runs of drinks a day. It was brilliant. I did, however, develop a pavlovian response to the extent that at 10am, 12pm, and 3pm, I would sit patiently awaiting my caffeinated beverage...
Genrally here your seen as a bad sport if you dont get everyone on the team drinks. I say drinks yo uhave a choice of hot or cold water and the tray we have only holds six drinks so it doesnt take long.
I so feel your pain. Must be hell being in an office where people are actually polite enough to ask such questions. Take it you don't like reciprocating ?
If you mean Googles much lesser know subsiduary that has nothing to do with search engines phones or anything remotely interesting and uses 10 year old kit then yes, I work for that Google. I need lots of coffee to deal with issues like these
I knew it couldn't be too long before one of you turned up. Polite? How is it ****ing polite to annoy the **** out of someone? It's ridiculous. It's people so keen to be seen to be polite and 'team players' that they don't stop to think that the kitchen is within gobbing distance of us all. If we had to leave the building to get a drink I might understand, but as I said above, no-one's doing anyone any favours by taking away a reason for them to get up out of their chair and stretch their legs. It's not the actual fetching of the drinks that's the problem here. It's the tediousness of someone going round the room asking each person in turn whether they'd like a drink or not. I calculate I must have to hear people talking about whether they'd like a drink or not for 20 minutes a day when I'm in the office. And then they ask me, and I always say 'No'. But they'll still ask me next time. And the next time. And the.....
Ah so you won't soot about the office on roller skates and play pinball if your having a rough day and lounge aboutin bean bags and the like.
Afraid not, we get a guy wander round with a trolley sometimes, I coule always jump on that an pretend. No bean bags either just old mainly broken rock hard desk chairs. Porkie I know your pain on that. Its a simple question yes or no and if yes what drink its not a life changing decision.
Sorry, I was just on my way to the kitchen and thought I'd pop into this thread to see if anyone wanted a hot beverage?
Stop being such an inconsiderate *******. Don't you realise I will get my own drink if and when I wish to? You are literally worse than hitler. I'm going to tell my real life friends about you.
As I am not going to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee and get a shortbread butter ring biscuit I will not ask the rest of you what you want.
