Tea Time

For an office who is at this moment putting into effect several processes and ways of working (project management, site scheduling, material calculations, drawing designation, client communication... Name it and we probably have a process or an idea of a process for it) one thing we still haven't been able to figure out is a tea schedule. The making of the tea is probably the only defined activity. Leena prepares the tea and leaves it for us in the kitchen. Exactly after that is where things go downhill. There is no fixed time for tea. The first round usually happens when someone is either feeling really generous to bring it for themselves and everyone else, or if someone is in dire need of tea and so will bring it for themselves and everyone else. That's still the part that someone or the other will volunteer for. The part that we still struggle with is the washing of the teacups. We've tried assigning this duty by day, lists have been made, people have been policed into the job and yet somehow or the other the last question you'd hear at the end of the day is "Who's turn was it to wash the cups?"

-Mannat