How do you take your workshop tea?

[Robotstar5]

Medium strength, milk, no sugar.

Mrs Robo is the professional tea drinker in our house by a ratio of 4:1

 

[ben8vgte]

Tea bag in the cup freshly boiled water from a kettle rather than hot water heater/coffee thingy, brewed till the tea spoon stays upright, squeezed out on the side of the cup, then a splash of milk and no sugar. Best choice of mug is one with either a random companies logo that has nothing to do with the work we do, or a 1970/80's one from that has been found in a ex employes nan's house.

Where as out on site somtimes it's bad and somtimes it's none

 

[premmington]

As an employer I do not deduct time for tea-meal breaks. The lads work 8.30 till 5.30 and get paid 9 hours money. If we are busy we have a short lunch break, if we are slow we have long lunch break. But no one has ever gone hungry or thirsty!

 

[Spark plug]

As an employer I do not deduct time for tea-meal breaks. The lads work 8.30 till 5.30 and get paid 9 hours money. If we are busy we have a short lunch break, if we are slow we have long lunch break. But no one has ever gone hungry or thirsty!

That's the way it should be, the worst place I ever worked had a bell signalling the start and end of every brake / work period absolutely hated it, I hated leaving jobs part done because it was brake time.

 

[Robotstar5]

That's the way it should be, the worst place I ever worked had a bell signalling the start and end of every brake / work period absolutely hated it, I hated leaving jobs part done because it was brake time.

The hooter signalling start of teabreak for production is when we dive into the machines to carry out routine maintenance we grab our breaks when or if we can anytime other than the official ones.

 

[premmington]

That's the way it should be, the worst place I ever worked had a bell signalling the start and end of every brake / work period absolutely hated it, I hated leaving jobs part done because it was brake time.

I own more than one car repair workshop. Seven years ago I bought an existing workshop and took the staff with it.

Day one... Rip out clock card machine! Then staff meeting! Instructed the lads to inform receptionist if they do overtime! Told them they were going to paid for every minute they were on site (pay rise - five hours a week!). Explained my thoughts on meal breaks and tea drinking!

Sometimes we have dinner breaks around jobs (flexi stop time about lunchtime).

I do truly believe a working man should be paid for every minute they are at work!

Lads have to make the best of the working day! I don't want anybody to get hungry or thirsty, hurt, bullied, wet or cold!

 

[Spark plug]

I own more than one car repair workshop. Seven years ago I bought an existing workshop and took the staff with it.

Day one... Rip out clock card machine! Then staff meeting! Instructed the lads to inform receptionist if they do overtime! Told them they were going to paid for every minute they were on site (pay rise - five hours a week!). Explained my thoughts on meal breaks and tea drinking!

Sometimes we have dinner breaks around jobs (flexi stop time about lunchtime).

I do truly believe a working man should be paid for every minute they are at work!

Lads have to make the best of the working day! I don't want anybody to get hungry or thirsty, hurt, bullied, wet or cold!

And I bet they where more willing and flexible to getting the work done. A happy worker will work harder.

 

[brightspark]

As an employer I do not deduct time for tea-meal breaks. The lads work 8.30 till 5.30 and get paid 9 hours money. If we are busy we have a short lunch break, if we are slow we have long lunch break. But no one has ever gone hungry or thirsty!

I own more than one car repair workshop. Seven years ago I bought an existing workshop and took the staff with it.

Day one... Rip out clock card machine! Then staff meeting! Instructed the lads to inform receptionist if they do overtime! Told them they were going to paid for every minute they were on site (pay rise - five hours a week!). Explained my thoughts on meal breaks and tea drinking!

Sometimes we have dinner breaks around jobs (flexi stop time about lunchtime).

I do truly believe a working man should be paid for every minute they are at work!

Lads have to make the best of the working day! I don't want anybody to get hungry or thirsty, hurt, bullied, wet or cold!

and thats the best way to do it. it works both ways .i sometimes employ a few guys they get paid well and do a good job for me and dont let me down i generaly make there tea. its normaly job and knock . as long as jobs get done they can go early my x boss was a tight git so i did a fair days work but no more

 

[premmington]

Hold this thought!

The "blame culture" was born in the Motortrade. Customers blame garages, parts suppliers blame methods of fitting over warranty claims. Fitters blame parts. The list is endless..

I have defined attitude to F##k-ups... I don't want to know what has gone wrong, I want to know what staff are going to do, to put it right!

If a lad makes a 100 decisions daily, if you get on to him, when he gets one wrong. All that will happen is. He will stop making the other 99 correct decisions thru fear of getting in trouble.

If one of the lads has F##ked up, I already know this. All I want to do is move the job on! Not keep going over what I already know

 

[CRB]

I own more than one car repair workshop. Seven years ago I bought an existing workshop and took the staff with it.

Day one... Rip out clock card machine! Then staff meeting! Instructed the lads to inform receptionist if they do overtime! Told them they were going to paid for every minute they were on site (pay rise - five hours a week!). Explained my thoughts on meal breaks and tea drinking!

Sometimes we have dinner breaks around jobs (flexi stop time about lunchtime).

I do truly believe a working man should be paid for every minute they are at work!

Lads have to make the best of the working day! I don't want anybody to get hungry or thirsty, hurt, bullied, wet or cold!

I f*in wish. Exactly why I was out of work for three years. Flexible beyond all expectations, and then $h1t on, along with the associated mental difficulties.

You work the way the I allowed those 'under' me to work, even when I was not able, allowed, to.

?What do you do premmington?

 

[DrDeAtH]

One day in the workshop me and a mate who can also drink tea managed to do 180 tea bags in in one shift .

I admire your commitment !

 

[CRB]

Hold this thought!

The "blame culture" was born in the Motortrade. Customers blame garages, parts suppliers blame methods of fitting over warranty claims. Fitters blame parts. The list is endless..

I have defined attitude to F##k-ups... I don't want to know what has gone wrong, I want to know what staff are going to do, to put it right!

If a lad makes a 100 decisions daily, if you get on to him, when he gets one wrong. All that will happen is. He will stop making the other 99 correct decisions thru fear of getting in trouble.

If one of the lads has F##ked up, I already know this. All I want to do is move the job on! Not keep going over what I already know

I had to deal with allsorts of couriers, a whole other thread, and 'big' customers. The defining attribute regarding Fups IS how you deal with them, and how your customer sees you dealing with them. It makes ALL the difference.

We took numerous customers from 'head office' due to our service. Nothing more needs to be said.

 

[mike os]

Tea can be drunk one of 4 ways depending on what is happening on site.
1. Hot
2. Cold
3. Hot, with bits in
4. Cold, with bits in

Bits...can be anything from a layer of dust, to rubble, wood shavings... You get the picture..

oh yes...we had a customer on a long job...( about 18 months iirc) used to go in the cabin at the weekend & take the mugs away for a good bleach... everything else was always clean enough just the stains LOL

for me medium strong with milk.... or lemon if I am being posh or fed up with milk...

 

[Spark plug]

for me medium strong with milk.... or lemon if I am being posh or fed up with milk...

I did try loose tea in the workshop once, the mess was unbelievable just stick with Yorkshire tea bags now.

 

[DrDeAtH]

Its gotta be PG Tips....

 

[premmington]

I did try loose tea in the workshop once, the mess was unbelievable just stick with Yorkshire tea bags now.

Ditto... We tried loose tea too! Tea bag of choice here is Yorkshire (hard water variant)

 

[CRB]

What so I do....?

Well...

1. I own and run car repair and MOT garages
2. Property development (house rentals really)
3. Knotweed eradication
4. ECU and EDC repairing (auto electrician)
5. Fuel injection repair and sales business
6. Plus I have interests in a motor factors and a dying taxi firm!

What did you do?

Sadly no crossover.

Plastic fabricator at the moment. Back on the floor after twenty years of getting up off it.
http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/Chris-R-Batey/slideshow/Plastic Fabrication

Previously modelmaker to BSL, Swan Hunters Moss etc etc
http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/Chris-R-Batey/slideshow/Models

?Can you rebuild Bosch VM injection pumps? My, our, LTs are simple but do need looking after.

 

[CRB]

I did try loose tea in the workshop once, the mess was unbelievable just stick with Yorkshire tea bags now.

Ditto... We tried loose tea too! Tea bag of choice here is Yorkshire (hard water variant)

I did a bit of driving a long time ago, printed materials delivery, and always had Earl Grey in a flask. I hated trying to get the mix correct in such a large volume. Never happy.

 

[waldershelf]

Yorkshire tea, milk, no sugar in a large chipped mug with "history"

 

[premmington]

Sadly no crossover.

Plastic fabricator at the moment. Back on the floor after twenty years of getting up off it.
http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/Chris-R-Batey/slideshow/Plastic Fabrication

Previously modelmaker to BSL, Swan Hunters Moss etc etc
http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/Chris-R-Batey/slideshow/Models

?Can you rebuild Bosch VM injection pumps? My, our, LTs are simple but do need looking after.

VM pump parts are thin on the ground now. Everybody is geared up to VE series and beyond.

We don't really gear ourselves up to do any injection work on vehicles over 10 years old. (normally at 10 years old, a pump failure will write the vehicle off).

If we get stuck with stuff for old cars, we tend to loose money on the stock.