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i use an avex contigo autoseal thingy.
If the OP wants something vaguely bike-y ... I'm sure Camelback now do something similar.
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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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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!