to expect my colleague to wash my tea cup

[nonsense0name]

so I work in an office and we take it in turns to get tea/coffee and water. We are a small team and on "my turn" I always wash up the cups or glasses before I re-fill them - takes a few minutes

My colleague just went to the kitchen, on her return she couldn't definitely remember who's was who's.

I am being over the top with hygiene here....

YABU- can't you remember what mug you had?

YABU. We're all expected to wash our own mugs / cups at my office, but not everyone else's.

Are you allowed to bring your own mugs in? If you get a distinctive mug, then you won't need to worry about other people using yours by accident.

I always wash up other people's (we all have our own) because it looks to me like it's the only wash it'll get all week but then I'm judging them by my own standards if they choose not to wash mine when they make a round.

Having said that YANBU if no one has their "own" and you may be given a cup which someone else has drunk out of which hasn't been washed in between. Who would think that was OK? Example: Oh yes the electrician had tea in that this morning. I gave it a rinse is that OK? Who would think that was hygienic?

If you all have your own mugs, I don't think it's necessary to wash each time. Can you ask workmate if she'd mind rinsing out your mug before refilling it? Or get your own cuppa?

I was having this conversation with someone this morning. In our office we have 'corporate' printed mugs so most people have the same one. If the person brewing hasn't bothered to rinse them then you've every chance of licking someone's coldsore

If they don't wash them they use the same spoon in each one so some germs may get passed anyway.

I always make my own brew because I'm sat on my own pod within the office and I'm very anti social

when they wash - are they using a fresh sponge - hot running water - then sterlising each cup patriucalry around the top where lips go with boiling water? If not - they arnt washing them anyway - just removing visible dirt and replacing that with millions of different bacterial colonies.

i wouldn't trust an office cup, when was the last time someone changed the dish cloth.

I would be getting some of these

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-12oz-DISPOSABLE-HOT-DRINK-CUP-WITH-BLACK-SIP-LIDS-/320986728461?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Food_SM&hash=item4abc4cc80d

Boiling water YABU

Cold water YANBU

We keep our own mugs on our desks, we're 200 here, so would easily lose our favourite mug in a common cesspit kitchen sink.

I rarely take a hot drink, my mug can go months between washings, all sorts of interesting things grow in there.

To sum up, unless your mum works there, wash your own mug.

I'll rinse mugs through the day but I don't do a full wash until home time so YABU.

I just pay attention to whose mug is whose. In my left hand I have Paul's and Ben's, and in my right hand I have my mug and Lizzy's mug.

And I have my own particular mug so I know that even if other people are a bit crap at remembering, I will get my mug back.

No need to wash a mug every time you have a new drink in it.