OT as hell: ready meals

*Sigh*.

Yes Champ. Whatever. Of course you are right.

Happy now?

Phil.

 

<Bursts into tears>

Phil.

(I could of course point out that darsy once commented that I was an
unusual Christian in that I seemed to have a sense of humour but I
won't because that would be churlish)..

 

Sad git, me, but you knew that. I make tea in a pot, even for just me. On
the coffee front, I prefer ground: I've a neat widget from Whittards. A sort
of nylon basket which is an individual filter. You stick ground coffee in
same, put it in mug/cup, add hot water. Stir it a bit after it has brewed,
remove, et voila! A quite decent cup of real stuff for one. I do instant as
well, if I am really rushed and caffeine deprived.

Ali

 

Those Whittards things are brilliant. I bought one a couple of months
back - I could never be arsed wth fresh coffee until I got it. Use it
all the time now, so it's a good job I have an almost limitless supply
of ground coffee these days.

 

When I first worked at my late lamented employer, we had fresh coffee
on the go pretty much continuously. Them were t'days.

 

I try and avoid instant. I have a cafetiere on my desk. My team reckon
that the ratio between the level of the coffee and it's temperature give
them a better indication of system stability than the monitors


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Highly civilised, indeed. The first year I worked at the Post Office, just
before we became BT, we had a proper tea trolley with tea lady. And she sold
cakes.

Ali

 

Heh. Is this like Homer and the doughnuts? A bloke I worked with at Bull had
a proper espresso machine on his desk. If you begged nicely, he'd make you a
cup as a great favour.

Ali

 

You may be right, but that was still the practice when I worked at RR
in the early 1980s.

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Piss off, she said cheerfully. If you want, I can bore you with the dates,
but I don't think that was your point.

Ali

 

Nope, that's one of the infrastructure guys

*no one* touches my caffeine

Actually, I have at home, a can of Japanese 'Boss' brand coffee that was
bought by one of my then team while on holiday. Still makes me smile

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I *believe* it's still the practice in a large, educational
establishment in Harlow and at least one tech company that was in a
documentary a while back.

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Alison Hopkins wrote

It was the General Post Office you worked for, so you'll be that all
that scab labour they took on after The Strike then.

Hmmmm.

 

Nope. Himself worked for the GPO, I worked for the PO. It had been split in
to Telecoms and Post by then.

Ali

 

I'd assumed you were in the middle of a vigorous handjob, myself.

 

That would be an impressive shot!

Phil

 

There was a "Blown a seal" line there somewhere, but I couldn't work
it in. As it were.

 

At work I just put 20p in the machine and get a cup of coffee without
any hassle at all. We have all the shit for making tea or coffee in
the mess room but time is at a premium if I want to have a smoke as
well as a brew because smoking's banned in the mess room.

 

We had a tea bitch in the offices when I was an apprentice who had a
hissy fit if she saw anyone drinking out of a mug when cups and
saucers were available.

 

Andy Bonwick says...

My last boss insisted that we drank from cups, not mugs, in sales
meetings.