Yet another trivial poll

[ladyofastolat]

At work, there is a kitchen about 20 steps from my desk, and at any time I like during the day, I can wander in and make myself a hot drink, and bring it back to my desk to drink while working. I was quite horrified to discover the other day that Pellinor has to buy any drink that he consumes from the staff canteen, and can only do so at designated break times. I'm curious to find out if his situation is normal and I'm just very lucky, of if I'm the normal one, and he's horribly deprived.



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[intertext.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I have more trouble getting _cold_ drinks (even water) at work. The pipes in the building where my office is are old and the water tastes foul, so no one wants to drink the water out of the tap, except when boiled for tea or coffee (we have an electric kettle in the staff room, which is across the hall from me). For a while, we had a water cooler with water delivered once a week, that we all paid into a kitty for. But someone got antsy about the bottled water thing, so that was stopped and now we have to bring our own if we want it.

[firin.livejournal.com]

The ward where I used to work has now instituted the rule that staff are not even allowed to bring in their own bottled drinks, even if clearly labelled, as there is a 'risk of confusion and cross-infection' from people drinking from the wrong bottles.

Sometimes I worry about the health service.