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I've worked for the same company for a long time, in that time we've been in three different buildings as the company has grown. Right from the very start we've never been allowed hot drinks at our desks.
Anyway yesterday we got the amazing life changing news that hot drinks are now allowed as long as its in a mug with a cover - so an insulated type thing rather than a tommee tippee mug 🙂
So I now need a desk mug, recommendations please, just normal mug size. Bike themed would be good, or anything interesting could be considered. I'm seeing a lot of dull mugage on desks today.
Wow, nice company to work for.. how about this..
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I have an alpkit kelvin.
no handle, but its insulated & titanium...
because I don't like football.
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I worked in Japan a long time ago, and one of my treasured mementos was one of these - the staff went on a jolly to HK, and brought me back this - mug eventually broke a few years back, but still have the lid somewhere..
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Something like [url= http://www.thermosonline.co.uk/store/Thermos-ThermoCaf%C3%A9-Desk-Mug-0-45L-Black/sp_627 ]this[/url] maybe?
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Kleen Kanteen insulated pint glass
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Or, if you want to ride to work and need something to fit in your bottle cage: Elite Deboyo
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£6 from Tesco. It's big and red and keeps coffee warm for ages.
Recommended.
why does it need to have a cover, in an office environment ?
It's not exactly ground-breaking in terms of design, but Starbucks do a ceramic mug with a lid - bit pricey at £8.50 IMO....
I use that Thermos one at work also. Served me well for years.
They (and similar) crop up in TK Maxx occasionally, for not much money.
Yeh I had a look at the thermos ones on amazon. Some people seem to be struggling with the concept of 'insulated mug with lid'.
Yes they are a nice company to work for.
we've never been allowed hot drinks at our desks.
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I've worked for the same company for a long time
Is there (was there) a reason? I'd cease to function pretty quick without a caffeine drip......
TK Maxx are a good cheap source for this sort of thing as Cougar said.
The Mrs has one of those thermos ones and loves it. It does keep the brew warm for ages though so it would mean you might not be able to drink it for an hour after making it.
Why couldn't you have a hot drink at your desk? Don't understand. Unless you work in a nursery or is a Childminder.
why does it need to have a cover, in an office environment ?
Do you know how much laptop keyboard replacements are?
Simples: buy a VW Golf or Passat that has still got the emissions cheating software. Get VW to fix the emissions cheat for free and hey presto you get an insulated mug with a lid as a gift! (Also a packet of Tic Tacs, but that's just a bonus.)
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why does it need to have a cover, in an office environment ?
Do you know how much laptop keyboard replacements are?
no idea, but I do work in an office with a few hundred people, for a company with many thousands of office based staff, all with computers and no rules about lids on hot drinks cups....
Do you know how much laptop keyboard replacements are?
That's pretty much it from what I remember, think some one spilled a cuppa on a pc at some point.
We have a heavily subsidized canteen and cafe and its not something that's ever bothered me. If I want a copy I can nip out to the atrium and have one there.
ah, missed the insulated bit sorry 🙂
I do work in an office with a few hundred people, for a company with many thousands of office based staff, all with computers and no rules about lids on hot drinks cups....
.....awaits thread from iainc asking "how long off the bike for horrific scald injuries?" 😉
edit : also awaits iainc thread entitled "Which new laptop keyboard?" 😉
That's the rule, it doesn't bother me and it doesn't bother anyone else.
The alpkit kelvin pretty much fits the bill - ordered. Thanks.
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Neither insulated or close fitting lid but thanks anyway 🙂
Do you also have to stand in the corner if you've been naughty?
Do you also have to stand in the corner if you've been naughty?
Not that I'm aware of, why do you ask, do you like that sort of thing?
Neither insulated or close fitting lid but thanks anyway
We don't need one.
Although did spill my soup earlier. 😳
Oh for squirrel's sake? What?
You won't be disappointed with the kelvin from Alpkit, brilliant mug and satisfying to hold in the hand whilst keeping the contents warm for ages.
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Although did spill my soup earlier
what laptop cover for spilt soup ? 🙂
Oh for squirrel's sake? What?
Squirrels don't drink sake.
Chipmunks love lemon tea though.
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What sort of draconian doesn't let you drink a hot drink at your desk?
Do you have to put your hand up when you need to go pee pee?
Squirrels don't drink sake.
Damn missed an opportunity.
what laptop cover for spilt soup ?
Luckily it was on the desk
What sort of draconian doesn't let you drink a hot drink at your desk?
Don't blame me.
Do you have to put your hand up when you need to go pee pee?
Of course, is there an office environment that allows people to just get up and wander free range? That would be like anarchy surely.
What sort of draconian doesn't let you drink a hot drink at your desk?
Princess Ardala?
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Do you work here? I can see why spilling a hot drink may be an issue if so 8)
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You want a Thermos Bubba, saves trips back and forth to the kitchen/coffee machine.
http://www.camping-online.co.uk/thermos-flasks-thermal-mugs/bubba-keg-thermal-mugs/bubba-keg-50oz-1-54lt-thermal-mug.html?gclid=CIfI4ZGSsNACF****0wod1zMDuA.
And for scale...
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The company my dad used to work for were really up on H&S stuff, after a couple of contractors blew themselves up while welding with incorrect ventilation.
They were only allowed cups/mugs with lids. I don't think it was an issue for while sitting at their desk, because my dad's mug had a screw off lid, but when walking between coffee machine and desk.
They also got told off for not holding the handrail while using the stairs.
Anyway yesterday we got the amazing life changing news that hot drinks are now allowed as long as its in a mug with a cover - so an insulated type thing rather than a tommee tippee mug
That situation and the idiocy behind only allowing you to have a hot drink if you have a lid is crying out for the use of a Tommee Tippee mug.
my company only relented on the no hot drinks at desks policy about a year or so ago, after 15 years of being around. since they allowed it (in cups with lids too), we've had to replace around 50 keyboards that have had hot tea or coffee spilt into them (i run the IT support for a 700 desk insurance call centre, which is partially staffed at most times by absolute morons basically)...
anyway, i use an avex contigo autoseal thingy. keeps stuff hot (or cold), and does not spill as it does what the name says...
i use an avex contigo autoseal thingy. keeps stuff hot (or cold)
That's great, you can have a coffee and a choc ice in it at the same time!!
Of course, is there an office environment that allows people to just get up and wander free range?
Yes. Mine.
i use an avex contigo autoseal thingy.
If the OP wants something vaguely bike-y ... I'm sure Camelback now do something similar.
Alternatively....
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They also got told off for not holding the handrail while using the stairs.
I worked somewhere like that once. Also got onto trouble for taking drinks back from the machine on a tray!!! Apparently I should have used one of those cup holders with the holes in. People have used trays to carry multiple items for how long? My response to these occurrences was less than accepting. I was known for being quite blunt in team meetings - they seemed to accept it as part of the ageing process so I played up to it.
No trays allowed for us either.
We all got given one of these at work, for reasons unfathomable to man.
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They're shit, don't get one of these.
No trays rules all come from people who've seen that episode of Oz where someone gets beaten to death with one. 90% of all modern HR rules come from HBO box sets.
Of course, is there an office environment that allows people to just get up and wander free range?
Up until very recently, the last three companies that I worked for, for a total of around thirty five years.
That was changing at the last place due to people being brought in to 'develop and grow the business', meaning much box ticking, performance reviews, forensic analysis of every little deviation from whatever the latest additional new way of doing the same job people had done for years, and that included me being ticked off for failing to tell someone I'd gone to the loo, this after eleven years in the place, in a variety of rôles.
No longer there, I was 'let go' because I could no longer meet their performance requirements!
Best thing that could have happened, I think the company will collapse, due to the dead weight of useless managers doing nothing but trying to justify their drone-like existence, meanwhile the business hemorrhages staff who really know how things work.
And breathe...
Oh and let your colleagues know about the matching flag you have in your front garden.
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depending on your preference. 😆
When I worked for the MOD on a firing range we actually had a bar that was open at lunchtimes and a popular pub on the island as well. Obviously nowhere near as risky as allowing hot drinks in an office environment.
my company only relented on the no hot drinks at desks policy about a year or so ago, after 15 years of being around. since they allowed it (in cups with lids too), we've had to replace around 50 keyboards that have had hot tea or coffee spilt into them
Were cold drinks allowed previously? Did they not get spilled on keyboards too?
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There's a company local to me where not using the handrails is a written warning offence. I've also heard that someone once put their cardigan on the back of their chair- "I'm going to have to challenge you on this" came the cry!
I applied for a job there, so glad I didn't get it!
Were cold drinks allowed previously? Did they not get spilled on keyboards too?
only if in those "sports cap" type bottles. and some spillages did occur, but nowhere near the level of the hot drinks deluge!
Holding onto handrails is a biggy where i work, its called ' three points of contact'
The company my dad used to work for were really up on H&S stuff, ......They also got told off for not holding the handrail while using the stairs.
Same here. At EVERY meeting, the meeting organiser was expected to start off with a 'safety point' - company compulsory. Occasionally it was a thought provoking useful tip but in general it was stuff like the above.
The final straw for me was on a global meeting where the organiser very solemnly warned us not to store our firearms loaded after an article he'd read where someone had assumed it was unloaded and shot his son by accident. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I'm increasingly of the view that most of us are employed by idiots.
I'm increasingly of the view that I'm glad I don't work in the private sector.
I'm quite glad I've never worked for a company that kept tabs on whether you were at your desk or decided that you had the drink handling skills of a three year old.
Both my company and all the clients I've been in, people wander any where/when. Doesn't matter as long as the work gets done. I regularly use the sofas to work from. With an uncovered hot drink too!
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£12 used it every day
I had a look at the bodum one, liked it but preferred a mug shape do bought the alpkit.
And of course we're allowed to wonder around, that was a joke.
Holding onto handrails is a biggy where i work, its called ' three points of contact'
Are you a rock climber?
Unless you're expected to hold onto both handrails or shuffle your feet down a ramp, what you've got there is two points of contact.
of course we're allowed to wonder around
To be fair, that's what some of us here are doing.
OK here's a gem that I've just spotted in our staff kitchen. A first aid hazard notification has appeared above the sink on what to do on contact with a hazardous substance - Fairy Liquid!!!
I assure you this is not a joke, though I do wish I had thought of it.
I trust someone has created a risk assesment for use of the fairy liquid and that a data sheet is readily available .
After some consideration, a mug with a lid at work would make a lot of sense. Lot of tea and coffee has gone down the heater vents in the Land Rover. As for the tractor, never a clear level spot in that.
Seeing as this is STW.....
https://dbzdress.com/collections/self-stirring-mug/products/lazy-self-stirring-mug-stainless-steel
I used to use a Stanley insulated mug, with a lid on it, which had a sliding cover over the drink hole. Great, unless you actually dropped it, in which case the top would fly off...
After a thread on here about such things, I bought a stainless steel Morrison's On-The-Go travel flask, brilliant thing, screw-on top, a flip-down catch on the lid, and even if knocked over with the lid up, very little can spill out of the drinking hole.
Exceptional value at £3.99!