Started a new gig last week and....

[wurzel]

The first cup of tea there in the morning tastes like ditch water as the water has been left in the encrusted old kettle all night. (The first thing I do now in the morning is refill it with fresh water.)

I was once offered a cup of coffee in France & the guy chucked in a spoonful of nescafe and then proceeded to fill up the cup from the hot water tap in the bathroom. Don't quite know why but that is just SO wrong.

[Sysman]

Same as my gig, except they don't have a vending machine. The first cup of tea there in the morning tastes like ditch water as the water has been left in the encrusted old kettle all night. (The first thing I do now in the morning is refill it with fresh water.)

One place (not in the UK) had iron water pipes in the building. It was the job of whoever got in first in the morning to run the water off until it didn't look rusty.

[SueEllen]

I was once offered a cup of coffee in France & the guy chucked in a spoonful of nescafe and then proceeded to fill up the cup from the hot water tap in the bathroom. Don't quite know why but that is just SO wrong.

[Green Mango]

I was once offered a cup of coffee in France & the guy chucked in a spoonful of nescafe and then proceeded to fill up the cup from the hot water tap in the bathroom. Don't quite know why but that is just SO wrong.

Bit unusual for France, I used to work there and even the coffee machines served real coffee.

I had to slow down on the expresso drinking as all the cafeine was making me a bit hyper.

[Numpty]

I was once offered a cup of coffee in France & the guy chucked in a spoonful of nescafe and then proceeded to fill up the cup from the hot water tap in the bathroom.

I have never worked anywhere so posh it had a bathroom.

Some have had showers the staff could use.

Was it a football club? They have baths for the players, don't they? Or was it a brothel?

[Drewster]

One place (not in the UK) had iron water pipes in the building. It was the job of whoever got in first in the morning to run the water off until it didn't look rusty.

Long ago I worked at the DofEnergy on Millbank (its moved and Gawd knows what its called now).

The water came from an "Artesian Well" ie theoretically it came out of some ancient resevoir where it had been filtered for eons and all that Tulip (like posh and expensive "Mineral" Waters).

The common thought was that it came directly from a sewage outlet into the Thames.... It started of brown and a little lumpy.... let the taps run and it got thicker and lumpier....
We used to filter it using "Brita" and it was left with just a rough yellowish colour....
Once boiled the coffee/tea tasted like pish... and the mugs if left standing grew an impermiable brownish-yellow "shell" - you could literally chip it off at the end of the week.

Being a group of blokes we obviously only rinsed out our mugs once every fortnight or so and continued to drink endless gallons of the Tulip.......

(In our defence - this was long before the Starbucks/Costas existed on every street corner.)

[Numpty]

Peeing in the shower? Okay.

But what if you need a poo?

I use a toilet / WC / Mr Crapper's wondrous invention, not the bath.

I do not understand the point of referring to a room by a fitting it does not contain.

[shaunbhoy]

More pointless political correctness, I guess. Bathroom, washroom, restroom..... C'mon, everyone knows you're going for a wee or a poo.

Everyone knows when I have been for a poo............for the subsequent 30 minutes, a Canary in a cage is almost mandatory!!

[swamp]

indeed. When I was contracting, those were the two indicators of whether the contract was going to be a duff'n.

Absolutely. Great bogs, good tea and coffee, and a well-stocked and open stationary cupboard are strong indicators the contract will be a good one.

[Drewster]

Everyone knows when I have been for a poo............for the subsequent 30 minutes, a Canary in a cage is almost mandatory!!

Jeez that must scrape the sides a bit..... I hope the door is closed