Recently a worker at BBC stuck an A4 printed note on the water cooler at New Broadcasting House in central London, pleading with colleagues to stop plugging the water cooler in.
The note read:
“A polite request – Please DO NOT plug in the water cooler. I like my water at room temperature.
“I am fed up with having to bend over to unplug the machine, so please DO NOT PLUG it back in.”
While some individuals laughingly compared the goings on to something out of sitcom W1A, saying that “life must be trivial” for BBC staff to complain about something so unimportant, others were nat that amused.
One colleague scrawled his own message on the note, writing: “But 90 per cent of everyone else likes it CHILLED!!!”.
Another staffer pointed out that there were “two taps” on the water cooler – one which provided chilled water and the other with “room temperature water” – and that it should be left plugged in at all times.
He attached another printed note to the water cooler, writing: “Middle class problems huh!
“With the machine plugged in and switched on the right tap is chilled water and the left is room temperature.
“This you’d realise if you spent a little less time trying to bend the entire world to your will.”
Another co-worker scrawled on the note; “get over yourself”, while another wrote; “health alert, SOS mayday”.
Another wrote in red pen: “If this cooler is switched on and off we need water purification tablets.”
Yet another said it would be a good idea to “gaffa tape” the plug into the wall to stop the “whinger” from constantly removing it.
Just another day at the office and a lesson on how not to irk colleagues around the water cooler…
