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fortunately the tea round does not mirror the pecking order in the office. In fact it is often those higher up the order who are made to get the brews in to prove they are still part of the team.
Although no one makes my brews just the way I like them
A very interesting topic of debate, oh beady one :)
IN my former life, different people in different places behaved in very different ways. For example, I have just been one for sitting whereever and with whoever at lunchtime, but in some store I worked in there was most definitely a management table in the canteen, and you very rarely, if ever sat elsewhere, and only selected staff from the lower echelons would ever dare to sit on it.
The same goes for presents I guess, the last Christmas I was at work, me and my two peers decided to buy our boss a Christmas present. We gave it to her, and she obvioulsy hadn't even thought about getting us anything, and after lunch wine appeared on each of our desks. On the converse, I bought my team wine, but wouldn't necessarily expect anything from them. Bit contradictory, I know, but in my eyes it is a token of thanks and appreciation for the hard work and effort they put in.
Also, would sometimes go for proper coffee with colleague (by proper, I mean from the cafe, rather than canteen machine stuff) and would take it in turns with whoever I was with (sometimes peers, sometimes my team) to buy the drinks for each other.
I don't really do hierarchies and pecking orders. People who tend to try and reinforce them do so because they are insecure in their position, and feel the need to reinforce their authority in some way, I think.
My masseuse colleage has just been out with her boyfriend for a bite to eat in the twon where I work. She finished a couple of hours ago, and he has just arrived back home from uni (she is a few years older than him).
Anyway, she came up the stairs with her boyfriend carrying a box - they had been for pizza and couldn't finish the last three slices so gave it to me!
There is a chicken, spinach, olive and tomato one and a couple of pepperoni and chilli slices!
In my team of three, only two of us drink it so we take it in turns. If he's more busy then I'll make more cups and vice versa. I'm the 'boss' but that doesn't make the slightest difference to me.
It's not the same everywhere in my company though, I don't believe my CEO would ever make a drink for himself or anyone else. But then he's a 60-ish year old man and is pretty 'old school'. His PA makes drinks for him.
There's a conference room next to my office and a visitor (I had no idea who he was) asked me to make him a cup of tea once. I was absolutely gob smacked, I swear he would never would have asked me if I had been a bloke. Maybe that's thinking too deeply into it but working in a male dominated world does that for you.
I got the person who should have been looking after him to make it!
There's a conference room next to my office and a visitor (I had no idea who he was) asked me to make him a cup of tea once. I was absolutely gob smacked, I swear he would never would have asked me if I had been a bloke. Maybe that's thinking too deeply into it but working in a male dominated world does that for you.
There's a conference room next to my office and a visitor (I had no idea who he was) asked me to make him a cup of tea once. I was absolutely gob smacked, I swear he would never would have asked me if I had been a bloke. Maybe that's thinking too deeply into it but working in a male dominated world does that for you.
No you are probably right on that one.
It really made me cross! Silly to get worked up over something like that though.
There's a conference room next to my office and a visitor (I had no idea who he was) asked me to make him a cup of tea once. I was absolutely gob smacked, I swear he would never would have asked me if I had been a bloke. Maybe that's thinking too deeply into it but working in a male dominated world does that for you.
No you are probably right on that one.
It really made me cross! Silly to get worked up over something like that though.
Not at all... I would have been livid. He didn't see you as anything but a tea girl. Very rude.
