Message #42889

[peana]

Bossie never ever gets a drink for himself - he just plain forgets!  I'm always nagging him to drink more, hence I'm always the one to get the drinks.  I don't mind - I rarely drink tea or coffee, but if I do I'm very fussy about how strong / sweet they are - unless I make them myself I often can't drink them!  However, I used to get cross with a previous boss who I always made drinks for but who never even offered to get me a glass of water when he went to the kitchen to get his own!  

I make drinks for meetings (which I don't mind at all) for which we use plastic stirrers rather than spoons as we are always running out.  What I hate is when I come to clear away and 9 times out of 10 someone has broken a stirrer into pieces and deposited them into the dregs of a cup of coffee - I then have to pick these out to stop the sink getting blocked.  I'm going to have to invest in a sieve!

However my pet hate is men (and it always is men - I've never noticed a woman do this) who spill drinks all over the kitchen work top and then fails to wipe up after themselves.  My office is close to the kitchen, so I'm always clearing it up - to the point that someone from another part of the business thought I worked for our facilities department who are supposed to clean the kitchens!