Office tea bags procedure
Discussion
The project office is supplied with kettle, milk, fridge etc, and a good supply of tea bags. Whoever bought the box of tea bags decanted as many as would fit into a kilner jar, but there are still plenty in the box.
I get my tea bags from the box, reasoning that we should use them first because the ones in the hermetically sealed kilner jar will last longer. But 4 of the 6 people in the office take their tea bags from the jar, intending to top up the jar with a handful of bags from the box once there is room in the jar.
Am I missing something or are they completely unhinged?
I get my tea bags from the box, reasoning that we should use them first because the ones in the hermetically sealed kilner jar will last longer. But 4 of the 6 people in the office take their tea bags from the jar, intending to top up the jar with a handful of bags from the box once there is room in the jar.
Am I missing something or are they completely unhinged?
Dr Jekyll said:
I get my tea bags from the box, reasoning that we should use them first because the ones in the hermetically sealed kilner jar will last longer. But 4 of the 6 people in the office take their tea bags from the jar, intending to top up the jar with a handful of bags from the box once there is room in the jar.
Am I missing something or are they completely unhinged?
I thought Kilner jars had a hinged lid?Am I missing something or are they completely unhinged?
Communal tea bags in our place, cheap as chips floor sweepings frankly.
Private stash of proper stuff for self and personal visitors, occasionally favoured colleagues. That is the way.
Coffee drinkers, however, are amply catered for by a free to them provision of decent machine and decent beans. It's discrimination against tea drinkers, there must be an *****-ist name for it. #Teatoo
Private stash of proper stuff for self and personal visitors, occasionally favoured colleagues. That is the way.
Coffee drinkers, however, are amply catered for by a free to them provision of decent machine and decent beans. It's discrimination against tea drinkers, there must be an *****-ist name for it. #Teatoo
TwigtheWonderkid said:
The jar is on our office kitchen worktop and the box from which it is refilled is in a cupboard. So we use the ones out of the jar and fill it up from the box one a week or so when it's empty.
If you're going to take them from the box every time, why have the jar at all?
The point of the jar is to preserve freshness as long as possible. So after the box is empty the ones in the jar may still be fresh. Using the ones in the jar first assumes the ones in the box will keep for longer, so in that case there is no point in the jar.If you're going to take them from the box every time, why have the jar at all?
PorkInsider said:
Riley Blue said:
Aren't the tea bags in a foil bag inside the box? A bag clip is all that's needed, isn't it?
Not always.For example, a 240 box of God's own tea (Yorkshire) is just one big box of 240 bags.
As a surveyor, I've been around building site offices for about 42 of my 59 years....... and consequently building site tea. I am inclined to the view that the question of tea bags coming from jar or tin is as far along the scale of first world problems as it's possible to go without falling off the end. 
Brown and wet is sufficient.
At home, PGTips bags which are in a tin.
Brown and wet is sufficient.
At home, PGTips bags which are in a tin.
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