Drinking water off at work

cazziebo

Reply:

Yes employers are obliged to supply clean, fresh drinking water.

In an extraordinary situation such as this, the employees should show a bit of co-operation and initiative - not use it as an excuse to down tools.

alikay, jams, always and alyth - I'm with you. Geez!

jamsandwhich

alyth wrote: »

jams, you have perhaps said what I was trying to say diplomatically - as my law firm has put me on a 4 day week with the corresponding pay cut indefinately, the fact that there is no drinking water is the least of our problems in the office!

Hope things go back to normal for you soon. I have not suffered pay cuts/loss of work yet but am prepared just in case!!

Yes, drinking water is a basic need and I didn't mean to seem so harsh ( as we all need our coffee at work !!)

pebble65

Thanks to those who have treated this courteously.I appreciate your comments. It was very frustrating working in a humid enviroment with a sore throat. I did go out and get water at lunchtime but as there are no cheap supermarkets nearby it cost me more than 32p!

To those who have been less than courteous I am aware it is a HSE requirement for my employer to provide safe drinking water, and from a MSE point of view money spent on water that would be freely available from the tap should not have to come from my wage particularily as we have just taken a pay cut . I work damn hard in my job, and I am actually worse off than I would be on benefit I also have a health problem for which it is necessary that I do not get dehydrated- and i could have just stayed off work and languished on the dole but I chose to work and contribute to society, I do my job and i dont think having water to make a couple of cups of tea a day in work is too much to ask.

storminbalder

I say strike!

It's the only thing these capitalist bar stewards understand!

They'll be the first up against the wall when the Revolution comes!

Oldernotwiser

Could you not just fill up a couple of empty bottles from your tap at home, in case this situation is unchanged on Monday? That would be moneysaving and co-operative as well.
If there is no running water, what is the situation regarding toilets? This seems to me to be a more important question than the drinking water!

storminbalder

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Could you not just fill up a couple of empty bottles from your tap at home, in case this situation is unchanged on Monday? That would be moneysaving and co-operative as well.
If there is no running water, what is the situation regarding toilets? This seems to me to be a more important question than the drinking water!

Aye, and you can always get water out of the toilet cistern (not out of the toilet itself - that would be disgusting!).

ceridwen

another vote for its just as well to take in some tapwater from your home on Monday just in case.

I guess there's one plus point - at least they arent poisoning you with inadequate information about what water is safe to drink or no - she says ruefully - having spent 24 hours RATHER sick before now - as I needed a drink of water at work (very hot environment) and hadnt been told that the water in the tap came straight from a stream and wasnt meant for drinking:mad: - I dread to think just what was in that water to make me so sick:cool:

Oldernotwiser

storminbalder wrote: »

Aye, and you can always get water out of the toilet cistern (not out of the toilet itself - that would be disgusting!).

Are you implying that this was what I meant?

silkyuk9

Whats the world coming to with everyone making problems, soon as something is not right for a day or 2 all hell breaks lose. water is the simplist thing to get hold of here in the UK, its in every fridge in every shop on every street. its not too much to ask to nip out and buy a bottle, you do when you are on holiday in spain, and you don't complain then do you??

Why do we expect that as soon as something breaks down we need a replacement here and NOW.

soon as it snows we cant get to work because the roads are bad and the car skids, do we not have legs.

no water go and buy a bottle from the shop, ask any employee who wants to go out a buy a bottle everyone will want to so they can have a 20 minute scive!!

Think about the poor kids in Africa who cant get water for love nor money. What about the young lads who are fighting for our freedom out in far parts with no water, can yuo imagine them going on strike because their Field Marshall will not nip to the nearest village shop for a bucket full.

We want to get a life, and as the job situation is at the moment think yourself lucky you have a job thats paying the bills, and giving you plenty of hot water to bathe in and incidently waste more than you need.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi everyone

I'm going to close this discussion but can everyone please remember it's possible to disagree with someone without it becoming heated.

Thanks!

Andrea