For refusing to drink from mucky vile mugs?

[ShittyTea]

Just started a new job. I was shown the kitchen and put my lunch in the fridge. I was going to make a coffee but saw the start of the mugs and almost threw up. Absolutely vile. Luckily I’d taken a bottle of water.

Anyway 10 minutes later someone stands up and declares a tea-round. I politely declined. I was asked “do you not drink coffee?” So I said I was cutting down. I then got hassled to have a coffee. I continued to decline. I got told not to be so polite and everyone needs a coffee before the day starts. I said I didn’t want one.

an hour or so later someone else comes in with a tray of coffee, one was plonked on my desk. I said “ no I’m ok thank you” The sight of these mugs was making me want to shower the room in vomit. I couldn’t stand it near me and pushed it out the way. Obviously my face said more than my mouth did as the coffee maker asked what was wrong with it.

AIBu to refuse to drink from these filthy vile mugs??? If I take my own mug in tomorrow it will be obvious what is up.

How do you feel about bathroom bins?

I always take my own mug to and from work as my staff room is disgusting. I wouldn’t even use the washing up sponge and would rather take it home to be washed every day

Perhaps the OP is the new guest priest at the Craggy Island Parochial House?

Although I'd expect Mrs Doyle keeps her mugs and cups sparkling clean.

@ShittyTea Please post a photo of the mugs!

They sound like they are tea stained, rather than actually dirty. If this is the case then you were being ridiculous.

Why don't you just clean them?

Take in a thermal cup/ one with a sippy lid. It keeps your coffee hot for longer; totally normal/ undramatic.

almost threw up? OK.

Just tell them the mugs are honking. And what the policy is re washing them.

This!

He works with about 40 women and 20 men, I cannot believe one of them cannot take a bottle of bleach in and soak them

what are you trying to say here? one of the women should have done it? why not your son?

as countless pp have said: you don't need bleach. You need hot water, dish soap, a yellow/green scrubby thing and a little bit of elbow-grease

YABU to make such a drama about it. All you had to do was say thank you, and then tip it out. Take in your own mug.
I can't imagine making so much drama at the start of a new job and then starting a thread about it. Well, I can 'imagine' it but not in RL.

What a drama. Almost vomiting over some tea-stained mugs get a grip.

What was it that made the mugs so gross? Were they actualyl dirty or just stained? I find it odd that only you would have issue with the mugs if they are as repulsive as you say which makes me think you are exaggerating and BU.

Solution - bring in your own mug and wash that yourself. That's fairly common isnt' it?

Is there any bleach? I work in a small office and all the mugs were tea stained when I arrived. I found bleach under the sink, soaked them in a bit of hot water with bleach in, then washed them up as usual- they've looked much better since. I brought my own mug at first but now just use the office ones.

So there are 21 men in total, including your son. Why hasn’t your son done it?

Or are you saying because there are lots of women, a woman should have done it?

Not holding my breath that you wilo actual return to explain your casual misogyny.

i'm not sure why you couldn't just wash a mug, not exactly hard??

Teaspoon of bicarb, fill mug with boiling water to the brim, leave to get cold. Most of the tannin will lift off and the rest can be scrubbed. No need for bleach, FGS.

And what's more likely to be found in an office under sink cupboard. Bleach, or a handy tub of bicarbonate of soda?

Absolutely not being unreasonable. I worked as a trainee when I was in my late teens early 20s, where the kitchen area, never mind the mugs, was so vile, I stopped having any hot drinks after the first day and just took in water. I have a low gag reflex and even thinking about drinking out of one would make me retch! Maybe bring a flask of whatever your preferred hot drink it, or just keep having bottled water, but I wouldn't drink from filthy mugs. If they keep making you one, despite you saying no, then just let it go cold on your desk.

I don't like drinking out of stained mugs either snd wouldn't of thought yo take my own one in on my first day

But I do think you are a bit ott with the vile and vomit comments.

A few months soon I got earache from demesne because I had washed his badly Stained mug as I had washed the flavor away 😦

To the pp that said the cleaners wash the cups , PLEASE wash your own it's not hard and only takes a few seconds but gor a clener it's a pain in the arse and takes much longer to hand wash a office worths of cups.

It's against heath and safety and food and hygiene rules yo have bleach in a kitchen.

It's against heath and safety and food and hygiene rules yo have bleach in a kitchen

A commonly held belief but mythical.

Our work mugs are coffee stained. They are Ikea ones and have a slightly rough texture and several of my staff drink very strong coffee. They are clean mugs but have significant staining. Every couple of months they get a quick soak in bleach and look new again for about a day🤣.

Well, they do say worse things happen at sea… 🤣🤣

I suspect unwashed mugs is not what anyone has in mind when they say it though.

This has summed it up exactly

What EXACTLY makes them so vile and disgusting??