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Original poster

Annoyed - drinks at work

123 replies

ChanningsPony · 01/03/2017 15:56

So, I've been in my new job for a few months now and we all share making teas and coffees.

I like doing it sometimes, chance to walk about and get away from the screen. I'll do it once a day or so for 5/6 people and we take it in turns with no issue.

I like sugar in my drink. Another team member feels like I shouldn't have sugar and will not put it in. Just one sugar, that's all I have.
Surely, it's up to me if I would like sugar or not and not for them to dictate?

AIBU to put milk in their black coffee everyday? Grin Grin

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Botanicbaby · 01/03/2017 16:20

Omg them saying "you'll be lucky" would give me the rage...and I'm not an angry person usually.

Had a colleague like this once,sane set up to yours. They'd gradually doctor everyone's drinks so those with sugar in their drinks received less each time. I know this because they admitted it to me once when I was in the kitchen at same time. I don't take sugar so it was said in conspiratorial manner.

Utter weirdo (in many other ways too)Confused

KingLooieCatz · 01/03/2017 16:22

Always address them and refer to them as sugar-police.

"Oi! Sugar-police..phone for you!"

Or, better, just sugar.

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 01/03/2017 16:24

Don't know them well enough to say they're being a twat

They think they know you well enough to BE a twat to you though.....

I'd be putting sugar in their drink every single time.

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 01/03/2017 16:26

Are you the only person whose drink she refuses to sugar?

Are you the only person who wants sugar in their drink?

It's all so strange... Confused

paxillin · 01/03/2017 16:29

Store some large sugar rocks on your desk. Catch their attention silently, establish eye contact. Grab a rock of sugar, stick your tongue out as far as you can, lick it slowly, do not lose eye contact throughout.

ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 01/03/2017 16:30

and then forget to put something in theirs (like the coffee!)

Yes to this lol - just give him/her a cup of boiling water (with perhaps 6 spoons of sugar in it) Grin Grin Brew

LizzieMacQueen · 01/03/2017 16:31

How odd. Is there a sugar shortage in your office?

TBH I wouldn't trust them not to double-dip the spoon or whatever so I'd add my own if I were you.

chocolateworshipper · 01/03/2017 16:32

I wouldn't put milk in it as they would notice before drinking it, but I WOULD be putting sugar in - lots and lots of sugar ...

Caenea · 01/03/2017 16:32

People don't seriously behave this way surely!

I don't know how they'e got the front for it Shock

But yes I would just cut them out the coffee round completely. If they won't adhere to your wishes, don't adhere to theirs!

ImperialBlether · 01/03/2017 16:33

So if someone brings in biscuits or chocolates, I assume this person doesn't eat them?

Original poster
ChanningsPony · 01/03/2017 16:34

Tbh I can be a coffee snob and this is shit coffee, it needs a sugar but I also LIKE sugar in my hot drinks.

I wonder if they know how annoying they are?

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KitKat1985 · 01/03/2017 16:36

I'd get a huge bag of sugar and keep it on my desk, and then whenever she bought a drink without sugar in make a real show of adding sugar to it (bonus points for singing something like ' a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down' whilst doing this).

IrregularCommentary · 01/03/2017 16:39

Oh, ffs. What a chore of a colleague. I'd put sugar in their coffee every time. If they say "coffee, no sugar" just smile and say "you'll be lucky".

Loraline · 01/03/2017 16:39

Definitely give them a cup of hot water and tell them you think that caffeine isn't food for them so you don't think they should have any.

MrsKoala · 01/03/2017 16:47

This is the kind of shit i'd go to war over. It's so petty and controlling i'd make it a personal vendetta (this may be why i never had any friends at work!).

I would decline when they said they were making a cup. Id say something like 'No thanks, if you can't make it the way i'd like it then i wont bother'. Then i would refuse to make them one. If i was offering to do a round and they chipped in with 'oh yes please, coffee for me' i'd look at them like they were mad and say 'you'll be lucky' and then not make one. If they said 'oi where's mine' i'd say plainly 'you are so rude about not putting sugar in my coffee i don't want to make you one. i think it's best if you miss me out of your rounds and i'll miss you out of mine.' Then give them a death stare. What an unbelievable bag of cocks.(i may say that to them too)

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 01/03/2017 16:49

Hot water and slice of lemon

Tell them you thought they could do with a detox Wink

IamFriedSpam · 01/03/2017 16:56

I can't stand sugar in my tea or coffee - don't even want it stirred with a spoon that's had sugar on it. Maybe they feel the same way - maybe you should stir their coffee/tea with the sugar spoon (having accidentally filled it with sugar before hand). They sounds like a massive twat.

TheOnlyColditz · 01/03/2017 16:56

nononono

Take in a jar of decaff

Make their coffee all day, especially the morning ones

They get decaff. Cue massive headache by lunch time

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 01/03/2017 17:11

"Piss off Susan" made me laugh.
Well, you remember how Baldrick made cappuccino. Grin

OneFlewOverTheDodosNest · 01/03/2017 17:12

Argh my Mum is a nightmare for this - must be nearly 20 years I've been having sugar in tea and she still refuses to put one in forgets.

It wasn't until I had builders who each had 3 sugars in their tea that I realised it was some weird class thing - massive snob my mother, do you think it could that here too OP?

butterfly990 · 01/03/2017 17:15

I thought from the title that you were referring to a "drink". Wine Grin

Bit disappointed Wink

StealthPolarBear · 01/03/2017 17:16

Agree with mrsk.
Or make theirs with 12 sugars and when they mention it say you thought they needed sweetening up

ShootFruit · 01/03/2017 17:17

How did having builders in make you realise it's a class thing? - it's not it's narcissistic.

That doesn't require class.

humourless · 01/03/2017 17:18

I'd put sugar in, less obvious and only when tasting can they tell.... just like you.

ParadiseCity · 01/03/2017 17:21

Next time they offer you a drink sing as loud as you can 'sugar! Yes Please! Won't you make a cuppa just for me' and sing it over and over.

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