Can an employer do this?

Jarndyce

Badger_Lady wrote: »

What if you didn't like what's provided though? Personally I like to drink green tea. I don't have milk or sugar in it - just a green tea bag in some hot water. And that teabag usually lasts the day, making 2-3 cups.

Should I be allowed to bring in my one tea bag a day?

What if I want a Lemsip?

Oh for f**ks sake!

magenta22

What can they do if you don't pay into the teaclub and take in your own supplies really?

My guess.... nothing.

Andy_L

magenta22 wrote: »

I think £14 is a bit excessive, most tea clubs I have known have been at most £5 per month.

Taking off the £3.50 flower fund, it's £10.50 a month for teaclub. If there are 20 people in this that's £210 - it doesn't cost £210 per month for tea/coffee and milk! They can get the cheap value tea bags.

How very dare you!! :-)

The tea fund may well have to buy a new fridge/kettle/coffee machine/mugs/cleaning stuff now & again - not just tea, coffee, milk & sugar

scheming_gypsy

magenta22 wrote: »

I think £14 is a bit excessive, most tea clubs I have known have been at most £5 per month.

Taking off the £3.50 flower fund, it's £10.50 a month for teaclub. If there are 20 people in this that's £210 - it doesn't cost £210 per month for tea/coffee and milk! They can get the cheap value tea bags.

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it's £2 a week and £14 for this term as there are 7 weeks in the term.. It's not £14 a month

magenta22

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

it's £2 a week and £14 for this term as there are 7 weeks in the term.. It's not £14 a month

My mistake.

I still however think that if people do not want to be a part of the tea club and take in their own supplies they should have that option. I think it's ridiculous to turn around and say if you don't contribute to the teaclub you can't bring your own supplies - it's then not a contribution, it's demanding.

AndyL - I quite like the value teabags, just have to dunk them for a bit longer but there isn't that much difference in taste I used to take them into work.

As for possibly being to buy new kettle - yes that is true it may be a possibility but they could then not have the flower fund but use that for that kind of thing instead.

scheming_gypsy

magenta22 wrote: »

I still however think that if people do not want to be a part of the tea club and take in their own supplies they should have that option. I think it's ridiculous to turn around and say if you don't contribute to the teaclub you can't bring your own supplies - it's then not a contribution, it's demanding.

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i'd guess it's to do with people arguing that somebody has stolen their tea bags etc. If nobody brings in their own stuff there's no arguing,.

bevanuk

This topic is getting milked.

Reggie_Rebel

I'm surprised teachers have time to drink tea or coffee, as they never stop rabbiting on about how hard they work and don't really have three months holiday a year

RobertoMoir

Uncertain wrote: »

It never ceases to amaze me just how much time is wasted and bad feeling caused by this sort of thing.

30p per day! Why on earth can't the employer cover this and provide what is needed. What tiny percentage is this of even the lowest wage?

Keep in mind that if this is a school then this is presumably taxpayer's money you're making free with when you expect the employer to cover it. I work in a college that graciously used to provide this stuff for free and which has now stopped as it happens (at the suggestion of the staff when asked for ways to save money), and the cost of providing drink supplies was higher than you might think.

Suited me fine, myself and a colleague split the cost of taking in the variety of tea we both like and our own milk for ages anyway. No one said anything about us doing it either. Our choice.

If they can't or won't then all behave like adults and agree a fair weekly contribution to whatever level of catering you feel is appropriate.

Yes, and if you feel that you don't want to contribute to the central 'scheme', whether because you're saving money, you're just plain miserable, you just don't want to or you have your own preferred variety of drink which you purchase and bring in yourself; then its perfectly reasonable to feel it appropriate to contribute nothing and not take any of the shared drink.

And this is a school? Heaven help the kids!

Tea and Coffee are a surprisingly serious business in most schools. Go into a random staff room in a random school almost anywhere in the country and you'll get all but lynched if you use someone else's coffee cup!

Sambucus_Nigra

RobertoMoir wrote: »

Tea and Coffee are serious business in most [STRIKE]schools[/STRIKE] establishments.

I once bought a pack of 'quite decent' biscuits as a thank you for a bunch of army lads [we are talking guys in their 30s and above, not kids] who had lent me some equipment at short notice; gawd you'd have thought I'd bought them mud pies; they were so upset that I hadn't bought them a jar of coffee.