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Original poster

I KNOW I am BU but I need to moan

52 replies

TantrumsAndOlympicGoldBalloons · 09/08/2012 17:12

And I can't do it in real life because it will sound so unbelievably stupid and petty and like I dont have any real problems but I do

Ok so please tell me to stop whining but.
Ive worked in the same place for 14 years.
I have a routine.

At 11am and 2:30 yes I know I'm anal I go in the kitchen, fill up the kettle, stick it on to boil, put coffee and milk in my mug, go downstairs, have a cigarette, come back and make my coffee.

For the last 6 weeks, every time I come back upstairs someone has used all the water, and not filled up the kettle. So them I have to refil it and stand there whilst it boils, therefore it was a bloody waste of time filling it up before I go for a cigarette.

Why? Why?

If you can clearly see someone is about to make coffee, the kettle is boiling, isn't it common bloody courtesy to fill it back up?

It's driving me mad. I am over thinking this so much I am beginning to think someone is doing it just to piss me off.

Well, it's working.

fill up the fucking kettle

Sorry, I feel better now I've got that off my chest.

OP posts:
Hairtodayandgonetomorrow · 09/08/2012 17:13

That is really annoying! If your cup is sitting next to a boiling kettle they should really fill up your cup for you. YANBU!

Trills · 09/08/2012 17:14

YANBU - hot-water-stealing is a crime.

LadySybildeChocolate · 09/08/2012 17:14

Why don't you just look for the person with the hot drink??

CarpeJugulum · 09/08/2012 17:15

Our office has a rule. You empty it, you fill it.

But then our office kettle is never off the boil Blush

GetOrfMoiRing · 09/08/2012 17:15

Yes find them and go and put your fag but in their cup of tea.

I don't blame you a bit for being annoyed, someone in your office is a cheeky bastard. You need to lay traps.

Original poster
TantrumsAndOlympicGoldBalloons · 09/08/2012 17:18

I actually [blushes] go around looking to see who has a hot drink when I come back.

I can't believe I'm actually saying this but I have a shortlist who I think it might be.

I have actually considered going at the door and coming straight back up to see who it is and then stamping very hard on their foot with a spiky heeled shoe on, that's how much it's infuriating me.

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HecateHarshPants · 09/08/2012 17:18

Don't fill up the kettle. Only put enough in for one cup. It's a waste of energy to fill up the kettle for one drink!

Grin and no, YANBU. Note next to the kettle perhaps? "I'm having a cig while the kettle boils, if you use the water, do me a favour and stick it on to boil again. Thanks."

GetOrfMoiRing · 09/08/2012 17:21

lol at shortlist

Original poster
TantrumsAndOlympicGoldBalloons · 09/08/2012 17:21

Oh god, ok I put a big fucking laminated sign in the kitchen saying please refill the keytle

I'm so sad.

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Original poster
TantrumsAndOlympicGoldBalloons · 09/08/2012 17:22

I know, but of I fill the kettle then I hope they might leave me enough for one cup but they don't.

The bastards drain the whole thing.

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drtachyon · 09/08/2012 17:23

We've got signs like that up in our office kitchen. Nothing sad about it!

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TantrumsAndOlympicGoldBalloons · 09/08/2012 17:25

But everyone ignores it. And I even laminated it :(

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CeliaFate · 09/08/2012 17:26

Next time you fill it, add some food colouring or you could think of your own alternatives...Grin

HecateHarshPants · 09/08/2012 17:27

Well then, you're just going to have to change your routine.

Go and have your smoke. Go to the kitchen, put a single mug's worth of water in the kettle and boil it. With a small amount of water, it will take far less time to boil, you'll walk out with your drink and you won't feel cross.

Original poster
TantrumsAndOlympicGoldBalloons · 09/08/2012 17:27

Oooh celia I like that.

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Wearsuncream · 09/08/2012 17:27

I bet its someone who resents you having a smoking break. (Not bothered personally by smoking breaks as long as people get the work done - they can be having farting breaks for all I care).

HecateHarshPants · 09/08/2012 17:28

Grin hadn't thought of that. Yeah, they're nipping in there and tipping your water down the sink and licking the rim of your cup Wink

SoleSource · 09/08/2012 17:30

Biscuit.

Original poster
TantrumsAndOlympicGoldBalloons · 09/08/2012 17:30

They probably are, I mean who on earth using every last drop of water out of the kettle.

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Iamgiulietta · 09/08/2012 17:33

I don't work at the moment but when I did if I ever used all the water up I would put the kettle in again. Someone has got it in for you...

MedalsTrumpDiamonds · 09/08/2012 17:38

Sounds like they are actually emptying the kettle down the sink after they have used their small bit of water that you boiled.

Grounds for cold-blooded murder I reckon.

RobinSparkles · 09/08/2012 17:41

You need to put the coffee in the cup and boil the kettle, then pretend to go and have your fag (hide behind the door or summat) and when the offender comes in, jump on them!

Nanny0gg · 09/08/2012 17:42

Don't you offer to make coffee for other people at your place?

UserNameNotAvailable · 09/08/2012 17:42

YANBU - how annoying!

OldGreyWiffleTest · 09/08/2012 17:47

I personally like the idea of the food colouring! You could change it every day - blue, red, green.