Relocated to a new work location in May 2007, and there was a new building fitout. New 2-drawer dishwashers, full set of plates, bowls, cutlery, mugs and glasses. Within six months, all barr two of the teaspoons had disappeared. Where did they go? I know I was hoarding 1 teaspoon of my own (I brought it in from home), so that I wouldn't ever be teaspoonless.
So I went round to all the vinnies stores in the local area, and managed to scrounge a couple, including a "padstow public school commerative 50th anniversary teaspoon". But on the whole - even the vinnies stores had a lack of teaspoons. Knives, forks aplenty. But spoons? Not on your life.
Where do they go? Is there a ghoul that eats them as a snack?
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Once at Physics we went so far as to have a teaspoon amnesty -- people could return the teaspoons that had been sitting in their offices, no questions asked. I can't remember if it worked though!
There's a study published in the British Medical Journal of the Half-Life of the Office Teaspoon. It was conducted by a Melbourne medical research centre that kept losing its teaspoons as well.
Its an interesting and amusing study, that spawned a number of related studies including the Half-life of the Office Fork.
Yes! In my last office (where I worked with Krin, actually), we kept having to buy new forks in.
For good teaspooon shopping opportunties, I recommend the King St Vinnies. I had to stock up recently, and found a bunch of nice ones there.
Oh no! Does that mean I'll have to scrounge for my spoons in the near future?
Found the link to the British Medical Journal:
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7531/1498
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