Very Important Milk update...

Well, it looks like the 22nd floor isn't full of milk robbers! Although it could be something to do with the fact that the fridge up here (yes, just one fridge, rather than two in our last little kitchen) instead of being filled with a higgledy-piggledy avalanche of half empty milk bottles and hundreds of ready meals/floppy sandwiches, just contains about five half-drunk bottles of wine, several interesting looking pork pies and a packet of Tesco finest nectarines...So I know what the existing residents of this floor drink (the important bit being -not my milk-), I wonder what they eat? ;)

Anyway, for now at least, it seems my hot beverages are safe from plunder... ;)

Grand Theft Milk

Time for an update on the whole milk going missing in the office situation...I actually think we have found a solution! As you can see, I have tried a number of approaches to labelling up the unfinished bottles - to list a few - my name, "DO NOT STEAL", the above "Reddit style" frown of disapproval with admonishing query, even "NOT MILK" didn't work...the final solution, now successful for three days in a row (even though he never even goes into the kitchen)? Put the name of the boss of the department on the bottle, not even the lady whose job it is to clean out the fridge dared to touch it... ;)

Milk Malaise

Still haven't really solved the whole milk issue, Flyingpops bought me a nice chrome flask to replace the expressing pot (too many funny looks from those in the know) however (inevitably) I either forget to fill it up or forget to wash it up, so more often than not I find myself in Tesco (Cabot Square) or Waitrose buying a pint in the morning...the problem with this is that I don't get through a whole pint a day (despite my enthusiasm), and it seems a real waste to pour what I don't use down the sink...

My last attempt at combating this was to write "Digital" (my department) on the side of the bottle and store it in one of the 'fridges in the office kitchen but (oh the cheek!) one morning I forgot that I still had some milk in there, so I popped the new, full, sealed bottle with it's little label in there to reclaim the next day, by the time I had got to it, not only had someone decided that it would be fine to open the bottle up, but had also helped themselves to half the milk!

So now I'm keeping the bottle on my desk...but actually I should probably persist with the kitchen storage, but instead of "Digital", write "Large bloke you definitely wouldn't want to discover you in the act of stealing his milk"...

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No more free milk... :(

Our canteen has banned us from having free milk...there are these two huge dispensing machines up there, each now sporting a sign forbidding us from taking any, unless we have first spent £1.20 buying a tea bag, and as you may be aware, I have my own in my desk pedistal...On the first day, I didn't realise, I got over to the worktop where they live and spotted that there weren't any cups, and thinking myself being very helpful, I walked to the water chiller, grabbed a load and deposited them, where they usually live, on top of the milk machines...earning me (oddly, I thought, at the time) looks of absolute horror from the (probably Eastern European) Canteen folk...of course the next morning when (half way through filling up my cup) I spotted the sign, it was abundantly clear why...whoops! :S

So anyway, not wishing to cause high blood pressure (and burnt toast) in the kitchen by acting like I am above the "law" (they buzzed around furiously on day two, but didn't actually *do* anything), I have taken to bringing in milk from home...the choice of container seemed quite natural when Flyingpops suggested it (she has long since stopped expressing milk for baby Thomas, leaving these bottles with very little -current- purpose in life)...however, everyone that spotted it on my desk (and has had anything to do with babies) did an immediate double take, follwed by a "that's not...?" sort of question or comment...I'm going to have to hide it in my desk drawer... ;)