AIBU to be fed up of the facilities at work?

[PaintingOwls]

Toilets flood every week.

Lifts always out of service.

Kitchen opens onto the office, food smells waft in basically all day as people take lunch at different times.

We aren't allowed a toaster because it's a fire hazard (!)

We aren't allowed a kettle and have the hot water taps which never heat up enough.

All I want is some bloody jam and toast and a decent cup of tea in the morning. Is that too much to ask for? My previous place of work weren't this mental, and we were trusted with dangerous kitchen appliances like toasters.

We also don't have knives so I have to keep my own in my drawer

YANBU about the toilets and the lifts.

If the kitchen is beside the office space, there's not much anyone can do about food smells, unless you stop people using the kitchen as a kitchen (assuming no one is cooking excessively smelly stuff).

Everywhere I've worked has ended up getting rid of the toaster after they set off the fire alarm.

Easier to just keep your own knife, fork etc - at least you know they're clean.

YANBU about the loos and lifts.

If you want toast in the morning, have it at home for breakfast.

What use are people making of the kitchen? What can they cook if there’s not even a toaster?

Or a kettle? (Misses point)

My entire office is powered by toast, toasted bagels, crumpets, etc. I think if we got rid of the toaster there would be industrial action!

I don’t think it’s so much that the toaster’s a fire hazard, just that it could trigger the fire alarms to go off for no reason.

Is there a fridge and microwave in there?

There is a fridge and a microwave, at least.

Old place had a freezer, 2 toasters and 2 kettles, and a Nespresso machine. I now realise I may have been spoilt there!

And yeah SummerInSun I bought a bagel the other day forgetting there was no toaster and it was weird and grim to eat it untoasted raw

Until you mentioned no kettle, I was wondering which of my colleagues you were... But no kettle is too far even for my office!

I just want my work place to be a comfortable temperature. It's usually about 30oC.

We aren't allowed a toaster because it's a fire hazard (!)

You just reminded me of something. I used to work at Topshop whilst at university. On a very busy Saturday, an employee triggered the fire alarms by using the toaster at the flagship Oxford Circus branch. I found this so hilarious - that store is absolutely massive and the hundreds of staff and customers inside had to evacuate! Can you imagine! Staff campaigned for the toaster to return to no avail.

Why aren't you allowed a kettle?!

My old place had a toaster, it was removed the 2nd time it set off the fire alarms. It was in the offices a chemical factory so both times we had 3 fire appliances arriving to burnt toast.

Having (jointly) caused a 13-floor building to be evacuated, I can see why toasters aren’t allowed.

They took away all the microwaves at my work...

We are allowed toasters at work but you have to attend a 30min induction before you can use them

Hospital though so fire services fine them for false call outs!

FredericaBimmel

how do people eat lunch!?

BarrytheFatcat

Because they installed "high tech" boiling water taps which only ever turn your tea amber. Driving efficiencies, or something

We don't have a toaster or kettle either. Just a hot water tap thingy that the water comes out so slowly you could have probably walked to Starbucks in the time it takes to fill a cup.

The worst bit about our work is the toilet is just like one in a house, just a little room opposite the office with one toilet seems sink in it, no cubicles or anything. So if someone normally the man who eats a fray bentos pie in a baguette for lunch does a smelly shit you can smell it in the office immediately afterwards.

one toilet and* sink in it

Microwaves are causing mayhem in my office currently. The old microwaves were awful. The power really deteriorated over time so even on full whack, it’d take 7 minutes to heat a bowl of soup. Literally 7 minutes. There’s only one microwave per floor so it caused lots of queues and frustration.

So then the Facilities team replaced the microwaves. With the exact same model, but didn’t tell anyone. Cue a day of people putting on their soup for 7 minutes, walking away and coming back to an explosion.

Someone put up a sign but it was removed so there’s been a week of people who don’t know about the new microwaves learning the hard way.

Gosh, that's just bonkers. YANBU.

I'm the main receptionist for the building and not allowed a toaster either but all of the offices in my building are 🙄

Also my ground floor tenants leave the toilets in such a state I have actually heaved having to use them! I have to try and persuade visitors not to use them!

Do you work with me?
We have a ‘boiler’ for hot(ish) water. A fridge, where milk gets nicked from. No kettle; no microwave; no toaster. Two canteen/pubs on site. Nothing else within about a 20 min walk. You bring stuff from home, or end up with stodge most days. 😕