Timeline for A co-worker is using my cup
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| Sep 15, 2016 at 11:53 | comment | added | user37746 | I tend to go through cycles of bringing in some personal items as decorations or knick-knacks and then removing them again, not because they affect anything, but because of the basic issue that the workplace is not my home, and I cannot expect to be there until I choose to leave. In this situation I would either stop thinking of the mug as 'mine' or take it home and use a community mug. The disparity in expectation has to be reconciled inside myself, not in the world - I can't control other people or circumstances. | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 14:56 | comment | added | JamesRyan | @alroc yes that is one possible solution | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 13:53 | comment | added | alroc | @JamesRyan please read my answer above. You clean the mug and put it away in your desk. If the cleaning crew is rifling through cabinets and drawers, you have a major problem in your office. | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 11:44 | comment | added | JamesRyan | @alroc except if it is the cleaners job to clear up dirty mugs and they don't know that it is non communal then it will end up back in the kitchen. So, talk to the cleaner OR don't leave it dirty on your desk OR talk to people and ask them not to use it. This isn't rocket science. | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 9:50 | history | edited | Phil H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2014 at 9:39 | comment | added | Phil H | @alroc: Adding to my answer, as commenting is getting long. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 14:23 | comment | added | alroc | I have to disagree. If I purchase an item such as this with money out of my own pocket I should be free to do with it as I wish, including keeping it at my desk for my exclusive usage, without judgement. It's not "going out of my way" because my desk is already the one place in the office designated as "mine" where it's understood that people respect personal items and space. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 14:17 | comment | added | Phil H | @alroc: Because you are going out of your way to keep the cup somewhere instead of just saying something. Glasses are clearly a personal item, but as is clear in the question mugs are not considered personal items in this workplace. So it's more like making a stapler yours by hoarding it than like keeping your glasses in your drawer. If it is left somewhere, washed up, and put back in the kitchen, nothing has been said and the cycle can begin again. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 14:12 | comment | added | alroc | In what way is storing the item one purchased for one's personal use in one's own desk "silently hoarding the cup"? Is keeping my reading glasses in my desk "hoarding the glasses"? | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 14:09 | history | answered | Phil H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |