I always get the first round in at work, and progressively all of my colleagues have switched to these massive beaker assed sippy cup tumbler bastards.

I'm the last one left on a good old fashioned mug.

I contemplated tagging as NSFW.

I've made my stance reasonably clear, thoughts?

by pimack

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  1. Call me Tommy Three Brews if you like, but my work environment is a solitary one, and I’ve got a 24oz coffee mug, a 32oz tea mug (both with lids) and an insulated 32oz secondary tea mug which will still be hot three hours later. I’m always on the slurp during my work day. Staying hydrated is good for you, right?

  2. Very funny that everyone is assuming you mean “last one on the left in the picture” as supposed to “last one (left) who still uses a standard mug

  3. Maybe it’s because I’ve not been in a shared office in years at this point, but I thought office etiquette was that you get whatever random mugs are in the cupboard if someone is boiling a kettle and offers you a tea/coffee? I’m an <insert office job here>, not a barrista.

  4. Lets talk about mugs baybee, lets talk about coffee and tea

  6. It’s the influence from the rowdy colonials.

    Also; mildly related – coffee places now give discounts if you provide your own reusable takeaway cup.

  7. Respect to the hobo that de-labelled an aluminium can and is drinking out of that

  8. Why would you drink out of a travel cup if you aren’t travelling. Mug is a much better drink experience. Plus it cools down to proper temp quicker.

  11. Yeah.. I’m not making brews for everyone especially if they take the piss like that. I’m not a skivvy.

  12. Confession time: I’m one of these people. Mainly because I make a coffee at home to take on the train to work to save money, and once I get there it’s just easier to use that flask rather than having a separate mug for the office.

  13. Don’t get me started on adults with sippy cups. When I went to the office I had a mug for tea and if I wanted water I got a glass out of the cupboard. I’m so old I remember when children could get through all of their morning lessons without drinking water. <shouts at sky>

  14. Side note: those nespresso travel mugs (last on the left) are superb…as travel mugs! If I’m not in the van I’ll have a mug please.

  15. As someone currently drinking coffee out of a plastic pint glass, I’m not sure I can mock someone for sticking to a standard mug…

  17. My dyspraxia means travel mugs are often a safer bet in something like a work environment so I don’t spill coffee everywhere or down myself

  18. Theory: if there isn’t storage for a mug at work, then people might make a travel coffee for the trip into work. And then only have that mug.
    Rather than dirtying two mugs and finding somewhere to keep a mug without someone else using it, it seems logical to me

    Laziness usually prevails

  19. How many times do you have to boil the kettle for this lot?

  20. I do use a refillable in the morning but that gets me 25p off my large regular white coffee that I pick up just before getting to the office. And I do that because I know I’ll start dealing with emails as soon as I get in so wouldn’t get round to making a brew for a couple of hours!

    But if I want another hot drink later in the day then I always make that in my own mug, securely stored in my drawer when not in use as the scrotes round here can’t be trusted and my mug is about 50% taller than a regular mug. Not quite a Sports Direct bucket but big enough that people comment when they see it for the first time

  22. Tea tastes terrible out of one of those beakers. Also a tea at home taste much better than a tea at work.

  23. No piggin tea break, or Harpenden Harpenden Harpenden?

  24. I use a travel cup at work, my job is phone based, and could easily get a very involved 30-40 minute call just after making a brew, by which time my coffee would be cold. If it’s busy, I can’t just get up to make another one whenever I want, so a travel cup is perfect for me. Plus I’m clumsy, so limits the chance of a spillage

  25. Taking drugs so I can be more productive for the man? Fuck that.

  26. I live in The Netherlands. Hot drinks are generally served in *glasses*. This is nothing.

  27. I was at B&M at the weekend and they had two entire shelves devoted to the big sippy cups. I was after a new beer glass and they hardly had any to choose from!

  29. I think that’s taking the mick a bit when they’re full sized yetis and such tbh. You’re gonna need 2 kettle boils for that I bet.

    It’s all paper cups at our workshop. Saves our cleaner from having to hunt down 20 mugs around the place every day (there’s ~10 of us here on a full crew day lol) but we also have a drawer full of random mugs from the time it was like that.

    3 of us have small insulated mugs that we usually bring coffee from home in bc the work coffee is absolutely vile anyway. Then there’s that one guy that never cleans his regular mug so it’s a lovely shade of mud brown in it. For the flavour, apparently.

  30. Something something sportsdirect mug. Am I doing r/casualuk right?

  31. I’ve got a mug that looks somewhat like those big insulated things there. The thing is though that while it looks like they hold a lot, the walls are so much thicker that it actually holds about the same as an ordinary mug. Try it out with water next time you’re getting a round in.

    As for why… It’s partially because i bring a cup of coffee in from home in the morning. It’s typically half gone by the time i get in. But the main reason is that it keeps my drink warm – no cold undrunk mugs, and it means I drink less overall if my 9:00 cup is still at a very drinkable temperature come the 11:00 round.

  32. So we’re talking about **work** mugs. As opposed to mugs in general.

    Technically, I’d refer to the vessels your colleagues are toting as “travel mugs.” Because that’s what they are designed for. They’re insulated, have removable lids with an aperture for drinking out of, and having no handle, are designed to fit into car **cup-holders**. (Technically “cup holder” is incorrect. They are designed to hold mugs, not delicate little cups. But that’s a discussion for another day.)

    The travel mug allows the bearer to continue to consume beverages at (or near to) their optimal temperature for an extended time. Perhaps the entire duration of the commute. In both directions. Although their use in such circumstances is not universal. Impractical for the person commuting via bicycle or motorcycle. A bit rude on a crowded Tube train. And questionable legality in a manual drive car in stop-and-go traffic.

    I have a couple of insulated travel mugs. They serve admirably in their intended purpose. But I wouldn’t take them into the office. Or indeed any private or semiprivate space.

    So I’m with you. Kick the overgrown office sippy cups to the curb! Figuratively, if not literally.

  33. When I got my “office job” six years ago I quickly ordered a mug with the Run DMC logo on with but changed DMC to my name, cos I’m cool like that.

    I’ve worked there six years now and only one person has ever commented on it, who thought it was a Run DMC mug and said he didn’t really like 80s hip hop. 🥲

    Long story short, most people don’t care what other people drink out of. Well, unless you’re drinking Baileys out of a shoe, I guess.

  34. as someone who’s guilty of making a hot drink then getting distracted by work and forgetting about it, these travel type beaker thingys are very helpful for keeping it warm for when i finally remember it’s there

  35. Just say that mate. Be like, I can’t hold all these giant mugs, especially without handles. Get a normal mug for at work or make your own tea. It’s what I’ve said at my place when people started getting weird shaped and novelty mugs

  36. I don’t work In an office I’m in retail but I used to keep a mug like OPs at work, I used to be able to squirrel it away downstairs in our bit when I was section leader/ supervisor (whatever you call it, the step down from manager) I stepped down from that role last year and now the new people (twats) incharge won’t let me hide a mug there anymore so I had to hide 1 in the break room(not got a locker).

    Anyway I lost like 6 mugs due to colleagues being asshole thieves and ended up buying this like silicone folding cup I can keep in my pocket that ends up looking like OPs colleagues cups….I miss using a proper mug but I’m sick of em getting nicked lol.

    Appreciate ya if you read all that btw lol.

  38. I wouldn’t spend a second my life worrying about it. They all hold liquid, it doesn’t affect me in making a cup of tea in it.

  39. I was part of a team that used to make tea for each other, then everyone noticed I like tea at a certain time each day so they would wait for those times and I ended up making all the tea. The selfish cunts.

  40. Mine is like a bigger version of number 2.

    My argument for it is thus:

    – Keeps drinks hot all day with the lid on.

    – 1 cup is the equivelent of 3 large mugs. This means less trips to the kettle. And less chance of getting roped into doing a round or getting collared by someone who wants a chat. 😀 But I jest, it just means I have a drink for the whole day without wasting any or getting tea scum.

    – AS someone else mentioned, but I didn’t think about including it. I also tend to knock things flying sometimes. I don’t have dyspraxia, but a similar “random limbs akimbo” condition. A lid, really, really helps with that.

    So yeah “massive beaker assed sippy cup tumbler bastard” for me, with tea that is weaker than baby tea (looks more like milky water).

  41. I’m a proper mug when in the office. If going offsite then it’s travel mug time!

  42. Just need to say thank you for being you, UK. Living the American shit show right now and clinging to your dry humor and coziness. Legit coziness, not Instagram coziness. Anyhow, even if this is an enhanced version of the UK it gives me hope for humanity. Don’t quit.

  43. It’s ok OP, you’re completing the office bingo by being “that boomer who brings in a mug with pictures of his kids on” or worse “pictures of his dog”

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