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Tea club abuse?

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TexasTyson · 15/10/2023 15:42

At my work we have a tea club. For £10 every 3 months we have:

Various teas, various coffee, hot chocolate, milk and milk substitutes.
Biscuits.
Bread, crumpets, bagels, croissants.
Butter, jam, marmite, peanut butter, soft cheese.
Fruit, yoghurt.
Multipacks of crisps.

There's recently been TeaClubGate where a couple of people have been spotted taking a loaf of bread or a handful of teabags home. Their argument is that they've paid for it and its no different from using it at work. Others think it's stealing and that tea club items should only be used at work. Still others are on the fence and think a few teabags or some bread or milk is fine, but a whole jar of jam or tub of butter is not.

Possibly also worth noting that this isn't an office. We start work in the same place but go out and about to do the actual work, so people often take fruit, yoghurts etc out with them for later. But are still at work, just not at base. This is not frowned upon.

What do you think?

OP posts:
Atethehalloweenchocs · 15/10/2023 18:53

No, it stays at work. Unless you ate half a biscuit at your desk and take the rest of it with you. Anything else is not on.

Atethehalloweenchocs · 15/10/2023 18:55

I lived in a house like this - we all put in for basics like this. Except the 3 guys in the house (there were 6 of us total) would happily come in and drink a pint of milk in one go, or eat a loaf of bread. The women in the house eventually said we were not going to do it any more. The men were all shocked and could not see why one of us using a few slices of bread a week wasnt equal to them eating a loaf at a time.

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