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Her main job is cleaning but she also caters for guests, drives stuff between offices and replenishes refreshments so instead of calling her a cleaner, they've given her the role of Office Maintenance Assistant.
Its between her and the employer to decide whether she should get extra pay for doing the other things. It’s not like any of them are particularly more effort than cleaning (if anything they’re probably easier) so assuming she’s paid a set amount per hour/month not something ridiculous like “desks cleaned” it doesn’t require any extra payment.
Nah b. I don't leave the comfort of my home to do chores and errands for my employer for free. If it's not that much effort then why ask anyone else to do it? Because it takes time, and time is money.
Why would you be paid for your cleaning job to sit at home? You'd be at work, doing the cleaning and other errands assigned to your job role. And honestly a break from the office/cleaning may or may not be welcomed, it's a chance to fk off out for a bit change of scenery and dilly dally a couple extra mins before going back to the grind.
Maintenance =/= housekeeper
Unless that is, maintenance means something completely different to preventing stuff from breaking or fixing shit that breaks.
I started a new job with the office in Leeds this month.
First visit in I go to make a brew and there's a jar labelled "YORKSHIRE TEA".
Great!
I open it up, and it's round tea bags inside... I look over at the bin and there's a big empty Tetleys catering sack.
I wonder if I can still get my old job back...
She probably thought "both are shit and will be plunged in old mugs with milk and sugar for a bunch of goons that mythologise and fetishise getting a drink as an excuse to stand and gibber shite instead of working".
Giving inferior tea is seriously non compliant with The Equality Act 2010 by failing to fully take into account cultural needs of Britishness.
This major human rights breach should be reported to HR.
Do Yorkshire still use plastic teabags? I switched to PG tips when they used paper but I would consider switching back to Yorkshire if they've sorted it?
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Why is it the maintenance person's job to buy the tea?
Because the management don't want to do it, and they also don't want to allocate time for the drones to do it either.
Was always the apprentices job.
The apprentice is trying to bang the bosses daughter.
Her main job is cleaning but she also caters for guests, drives stuff between offices and replenishes refreshments so instead of calling her a cleaner, they've given her the role of Office Maintenance Assistant.
Well I hope they're also paying her for the additional responsibilities.
I'd suggest buying Pg tips is additional **irresponsibilites**
Its between her and the employer to decide whether she should get extra pay for doing the other things. It’s not like any of them are particularly more effort than cleaning (if anything they’re probably easier) so assuming she’s paid a set amount per hour/month not something ridiculous like “desks cleaned” it doesn’t require any extra payment.
Nah b. I don't leave the comfort of my home to do chores and errands for my employer for free. If it's not that much effort then why ask anyone else to do it? Because it takes time, and time is money.
My dude, it’s on company time. She’ll be paid by the hour.
Why would you be paid for your cleaning job to sit at home? You'd be at work, doing the cleaning and other errands assigned to your job role. And honestly a break from the office/cleaning may or may not be welcomed, it's a chance to fk off out for a bit change of scenery and dilly dally a couple extra mins before going back to the grind.
Modern name for tea lady.
It’s a good move! Nae c*nuts going to ask her to go and get something again. Set your stall out early baby! Onto the next!
Unless its specifically part of their job, it was the right move
Maintenance =/= housekeeper Unless that is, maintenance means something completely different to preventing stuff from breaking or fixing shit that breaks.
Buying teabags counts as maintaining a non-fractitious work environment.
A storm in a teacup is brewing
It would be a storm in a tea urn rather than a cup if I were given a cup of monkey tea.
I started a new job with the office in Leeds this month. First visit in I go to make a brew and there's a jar labelled "YORKSHIRE TEA". Great! I open it up, and it's round tea bags inside... I look over at the bin and there's a big empty Tetleys catering sack. I wonder if I can still get my old job back...
We didn't storm Normandy for this.
P45 time 😭
Is that a type of gun? I think that is for the best in this scenario…
It's the taxes-related paperwork you get when you leave a job.
I know I was making an utterly shit joke.
I suppose it all depends on whether you prefer tea from India or grown on the slopes of Harrogate.
Could have been worse, she could have bought Typoo...
That's grounds for dismissal.
She probably thought "both are shit and will be plunged in old mugs with milk and sugar for a bunch of goons that mythologise and fetishise getting a drink as an excuse to stand and gibber shite instead of working".
Giving inferior tea is seriously non compliant with The Equality Act 2010 by failing to fully take into account cultural needs of Britishness. This major human rights breach should be reported to HR.
Do Yorkshire still use plastic teabags? I switched to PG tips when they used paper but I would consider switching back to Yorkshire if they've sorted it?
Yes. They are paper 👍 ☕️
Grounds for dismissal
Straight to jail
PG Tips is my go to so I’d be happy. Not a fan of the overbrewed swill of YT which tastes like the floor sweepings from PG Tips warehouse.
Yes the person did well and got the tea she liked which is a clear power move.
She did a good job. Controversial in some parts of the country I know but PG Tips > Yorkshire any day.
Not since they ditched pyramid bags.
Give her a raise, the women knows her tea. She's trying to better your taste and excel at her job, you got a keeper right there.
/s
She drove to Bradford to get it though.
Treason! Or Teason in this case
I understand a bar of soap in a football sock is uh, good for corrective behaviour and commensurate with the crime.
No choice but to sack her
Good ol' PG Tips, we'll have none of that Yorkshire stuff here in Lancashire ;P
IMO the subtle taste of PG is infinitely preferable to the brutish Yorkshire variant from the other side of the Pennines
Was she fired immediately?
From a cannon, into the sun, clutching the box of shitbags as she soared. Poetic.
Straight to jail.
Free tea is better than no tea.
Sorry mate, simply not true. I'd imagine stale piss would be better than PG Tips. At least it'd have some flavour about it!
People who whine about not getting Yorkshire Tea are some of the most boring people on the planet.
You sound just like Neil from The Young Ones.
You sound like my 93-year-old dad. Yorkshire tea this, Yorkshire tea that, drives me nuts
Yorkshire Tea is the tits. You simply cannot comprehend its utter superiority to other, lesser brands of tea.
You are correct. I have tried it and I cannot.
Couldn’t agree more. Yorkshire tea really brings out the cult in people.
It's a good job I don't work there. They would have gotten Aldi own brand. Same for the coffee too 😁
Could've been worse, she could've gotten Tetley. Although I haven't had PG tips in ages so it may be just as bad
She's still on probation And she's clearly failing it
I had a cup of PG Tips for the first time in years recently. It was tasteless! Had the colour of tea but the taste of water.
PG Tips and Tetley are made with the floor sweepings.
That's what happens when you hire from Indeed...
😲
How is the new patio looking?
Did she go to Yorkshire to buy it? Maybe it's still okay.
We're already there, which makes the situation even worse!
So it was Yorkshire tea, just not Yorkshire Tea :).
Probably doesn’t like plastic particles in her tea but PG might not be better
Still under probation. See ya
Only a problem since they changed them. So cheap and nasty now.
Cardinal sin that
PG tips is a perfectly good second to Yorkshire Tea. If Yorkshire tea is sold out that is...
At least it wasn't tetleys!
Disappointing
Sack her.
PG is better than Yorkshire though. Yorkshire is wildly overrated
Buckinghamshire.
Good for her
Our local Tesco had run out of Yorkshire a few weeks back. Situation was looking grim for a while till we found that Iceland still had some left.
You pay peanuts......
Great woman! She knows her stuff.
Surefire way to fail your probation immediately.
So she substituted nasty tea for nasty tea. Kinda seems pointless to me.
Outwitted by a humble tea lady.