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What really grinds your gears?

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Jambomo Nov 2017 11:28am, 27 Nov 2017 6,527 posts	Quote 1 pin Jambomo Every week, on Monday morning, I buy milk for the office. I buy it as I am in early and like a coffee but I am happy for everyone else to use it as its only 50p and its better tahn everyone buying tehri own and us having a fridge-full of cartons. What grinds my gears is that whilst everyone uses it, nobody (apart from one lady) even acknowledges that I buy it or says thank you. What REALLY grinds my gears is that they use it and then leave it out on the desk in the main office to go warm and get spoilt, because they are too lazy to put it back. They are a bunch of ^&^"^"&^.
Fragile Do Not Bend Nov 2017 12:56pm, 27 Nov 2017 2,530 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend People who can’t tell that I’m not in the mood for a conversation.
TRO Toddslayer Nov 2017 3:29pm, 27 Nov 2017 15,730 posts	Quote 1 pin TRO Toddslayer Colleague's method of making the tea in the office: 1. Lay out all the cups, put the milk/sugar in where appropriate. 2. Fill all cups with hot water. 3. Add teabags/coffee. 4. Stir each/squeeze teabag, with one spoon, going from cup to cup. So many kinds of wrong it does my nut in. Even watching this process grinds my gears, I avoid the kitchen when he's on a tea/coffee run, but erred today and saw the whole thing underway. Aaarrrggghhh....
Red Squirrel Nov 2017 4:54pm, 27 Nov 2017 20,502 posts	Quote Pin Red Squirrel You could not call that a brew
Velociraptor Nov 2017 5:02pm, 27 Nov 2017 37,173 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor Urgh! Apart from the wrongness of dunking the teabag instead of letting it soak, that's going to lead to all sorts of little-trace-of-milk and little-trace-of-sugar and coffee-in-the-tea murkiness. (I make my own office coffee, because I suspect at least one person in my office would regard that as an appropriate way of being efficient.)
Surrey Phil Nov 2017 8:00pm, 27 Nov 2017 2,142 posts	Quote Pin Surrey Phil Two colleagues used to have weak tea (one has since left) and sometimes said, "shall we share a tea bag?" Another likes hers 'strengthy' and I apparently cause offense by opting for a decaf coffee. Each to his (or her) own I suppose.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Nov 2017 8:31pm, 27 Nov 2017 26,172 posts	Quote Pin Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) indigestion.
Dvorak Nov 2017 9:51pm, 27 Nov 2017 14,799 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Royal fucking weddingism.
decorum Nov 2017 11:43pm, 27 Nov 2017 2,616 posts	Quote 1 pin decorum [Aged Parent refers to barely dipped enough to brew tea as 'fortnight' ... because it's 'Too Weak' tea ]
Carpathius Nov 2017 7:12am, 28 Nov 2017 12,721 posts	Quote Pin Carpathius I refer to that version of tea as too weak to crawl out of the pot.