Oatmeal for breakfast, talk about the weather, snobbery, weird humor… The land is full of stereotypes about the British. But it seems that some of them are more than true – for example, their love for tea. Confirmation of this is the office conflict, in which the kettle became the bone of contention.
In the office environment, it is no longer customary to sort things out “loudly”: loudly asking colleagues who did not wash the cup, where did all the spoons go, or whose salad found a second life in the refrigerator. For all this, they came up with notes that employees leave in prominent places and thereby kill two birds with one stone – they convey their thoughts and maintain their own and others’ anonymity.
Employees of a British office also resorted to this method, starting a dispute over the use of a kettle. They exchanged two notes: the author of the first, with a picture of Rex, the Toy Story dinosaur, accused his colleagues of not filling the kettle with water.
“T-Rex has tiny hands and can’t fill the kettle when it’s out of water. And what is your excuse?, – wrote a worker. “Please refill the kettle after you use it.”
His colleague explained what was happening in his own way: “Didn’t the tyrannosaurus rex hear about the energy saving, striving for which we boil exactly as much water as we need? Also, a decent cup of tea requires freshly boiled water, not water that has been boiled several times. No wonder he’s a dinosaur.” And he supplemented his answer with a picture of a smiling cup.
One of the employees took a picture of the notes and shared them on the Internet – the post quickly became popular and received more than 700 comments. Many users pointed out that this is a rare example of an office quarrel that started because of such a trifle.
One commented: “Actually, if this is your biggest problem, then you have a pretty well organized kitchen. Other “kitchen communities” have to first go through squabbles over overflowing trash cans, dirty cups, wet tea bags, and order in general to get to questions about using a kettle.”
There is a possibility that the workers did not understand each other, and the first author asked not to boil a lot of water at once, but simply not to leave the kettle empty. That is, to do so that the next person who wants to can turn on the appliance without wasting time filling it.
It turns out that the employee wanted to teach people how to care for others. But, as can be seen from the comments, not everyone is ready to show it.
“My driving instructor once complained that his son never fills the kettle at home,” wrote another user. — And when I said that this should not be a problem, because filling the kettle is not difficult, the instructor decided that I agreed with him. But if the kettle is easy to fill, why do you complain that it is empty and needs to be filled?”