Group A comprises those (mostly) men who only wash a cup (and only their own) at the end of the month if it has visible mould colonies growing in it.
Group B comprises those (mostly) women who will wash every cup in their team fastidiously every time and will polish every tea spoon to a dazzling shine.
Group A hates group B. They block up the kitchen and cause queues of thirsty men to build up while they fuss over futile OCD cleanliness.
Group B hates group A - those filthy lazy disease-ridden monsters who infect the whole office with fungal spores - Yeuch!
Of course most people are somewhere between. I confess I am 95% of the way into group A. I chain-smoke coffee, so I am only ever topping up my cup, quickly nipping into the kitchen between jobs, and cursing those women that have taken up residence so that I can't get to the boiler. I trust that the regular flushes of fresh boiling water kill the germs. Even though I know it doesn't work that way. I know the women think I am a disgusting pig. True. But it's also true that they go over the top and take to long.
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