Coffee etiquette in the office

[hattie43]

In our office of 3 up to sometimes 6 we have long asked for a decent coffee machine so far to no avail .

This means I'm finding it difficult to go and grab a coffee without asking everyone else , but making a variety of coffee, hot chocolate, tea with our kettle takes so bloomin long .
Same with when I want a Starbucks I feel obliged to ask everyone else .

What do you do where you are , get your own or offer a ' round ' to everyone else .

No I don't do that , tbh now I find myself not get a Starbucks because i feel awkward about coming in with nice coffee .

I ordered Deliveroo for 5 of us and it cost me about £30 , never again .

@hattie43

You're a fool or have a ridiculous amount of disposable income!

Invest in Yeti coffee cups and fill up before you start work. It will stay warm for hours. Nobody knows if you've been to Starbucks, made a decent one at home or are hiding a secret hot ribena!

Get our own. It's a good excuse to step away from the screen for a minute or two.

A few of us clubbed together and bought a a nespresso for the kitchen. Worked out less than £10 each. Could you suggest that?

We have rounds, but all of us work hybrid so when we are together in the office we appreciate the company. If it were 5 days a week it would probably be different.

Also there aren't that many of us, no more than about 6, and not everyone tends to want coffee/tea at the same time.

We do rounds in our office and I hate it! I’d much rather just get my own. Especially as there’s no order with the rounds so sometimes people ‘over offer’ and I feel like I can’t say yes because they made the last round but they insist on making it even if someone says they’ll do it.
I occasionally come in with a shop bought coffee but thankfully as I’m usually in before others I don’t feel like I have to offer to get someone else one, A colleague offered the other week at lunchtime to get us coffees from Starbucks and we all declined which I was pleased about as I thought please don’t start that up!!!!

Just throw £15 in a pot together and buy a coffee machine!

where I work someone usually makes a drink first thing and then someone makes a round usually around 11am and 3pm. It’s usually the same people that make the tea. I’m pretty rubbish at taking my turn 🤣

There's usually between four and ten of us on the office. We have an urn in the kitchen with tea and coffee, and a nespresso for the odd treat. Usually someone will say "I fancy a brew, anyone else?" and will then make for whoever answers, but if anyone ever makes just their own it's no big issue.

We're miles away from civilisation but if we were near a Starbucks I wouldn't get involved in buying rounds, that's bonkers money!

I worked somewhere once where there was a requirement to make rounds of tea and coffee for a team of ten people multiple times a day and it was a total pain in the arse. It took a large chunk of the day and no one ever thanked you, just moaned if their sugar quota was off by 0.4 gram. The amount of times I had to go back and remake a cup of tea.

Life is too fucking short, you can never please everyone and it’s quicker to make your own.

What kind of place is it that you're expected to stand co workers coffees from a coffee shop. I've workedin loads of places and that's never been a thing.

Just go to Starbucks, surely you don't have to announce your movements

Why is that funny? It's really rude to accept drinks and notr offer to make them, ime that causes office resentment

What have I just read? Nobody does this, OP! Nobody! The most you might do is buy your closest colleague a coffee on her birthday. Nobody buys coffee for everyone.

Does anyone offer to make you a coffee? Has anyone ever bought you a coffee?

@BarcardiWithGadaffia

What kind of place is it that you're expected to stand co workers coffees from a coffee shop. I've workedin loads of places and that's never been a thing.

We used to do that pre cost of living crisis in the days when most people worked in the office.

Yes it’s expensive but in theory it comes back to you. Trouble is the coffee addicts go and buy drinks outside more than the tea drinkers: no one in their right mind wastes money regularly on a Starbucks tea. So the coffee people end up spending a lot more than the tea people.

It was a lighthearted comment hence the emoji. I don’t consider myself rude and neither do my colleagues. More often than not I’m with a patient when the drinks get made which is why I probably make them less often than some but if I’m free and others are busy then I’m happy to make a tray of drinks

6-10 people in our office, depending on how many are working from home at a time. Everyone has always got their own.

There’s 3 of us. I’m the only coffee drinker so I buy my own, but we all drink tea and we all take our tea the same way so we just make three teas whenever we want one.

No way op, get your Starbucks and don't worry about it. I'd throw out a 'im off to starbucks' so others can come of give you money to get it for them but don't buy for them. If they ask and don't offer money ask them if they want to send it via PayPal or banking details

Just get a £30 tassimo and split the cost of the machine and the pods? Unless anyone is particularly fussy about what they drink 🤣

We had this in our staffrooms. In one place, everybody had their own jars of coffee or teabags - in the other, one person collected money from everybody once a term and bulk bought coffee, tea, sugar etc.

Both systems worked well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/taylors-coffee-bag/s?k=taylors+coffee+bag

We club together to buy bug multi packs of coffee bags from Amazon or costco plus milk & sugar. They're essentially filter coffee in bags similar to tea bags.

I once worked part time in an office of full timers from multiple teams who all knew each other and did hot drink rounds. I rarely fancied one when they were offering, and when I did want one, really couldn't be doing with the faff of asking half a dozen people (most of whom I hardly knew) what they wanted. In the end I resorted to the flask strategy!

I joined an office of 7 people who used to do the rounds of drinks - I hated it!
They didn’t all take turns & sometimes offered when I didn’t want one or didn’t take a turn when I did want one.
After about 6 weeks I just announced that I was going to make my own drinks from now on.
I think they weren’t that impressed to start with but soon got used to it and it was sooo much better for me.

My tassimo machine was about 30 quid and is great