I am learning about discrimination and human rights at the moment. The UK is combining all its anti-discrimination legislation into a single Equality Bill, where the emphasis is on promoting equality (with a new duty to address socio-economic disadvantage), rather than avoiding discrimination.

We got our microwaves in the end. There is a new canteen space with six microwaves in the basement. It’s well used but unfortunately (for the company), most people heat their food and take it back upstairs to their desks or communal hub areas. So, instead of having food smells in the offices, we now have food smells in the lifts and the offices, plus the risk of people spilling hot food on themselves as they go up the lifts or stairs.

My friend Juhi was let go as part of the last redundancy programme. She didn’t see the rewards of her campaign. I wondered (not too seriously) whether or not it was a case of microwave justice.

In my old work, they banned toasters because they kept setting off the fire alarm.

My work now has also banned kettles (I think because of electrical safety?). The English are addicted to tea so this really upset my work mates. We have a boiling hot water tap, which I’m happy to use, so the kettle loss didn’t bother me. But when we moved to the refurbished floor, the boiling water tap wasn’t working and someone quietly brought in a kettle from home. No one has removed it yet so maybe estate management have conceded this one thing.

I get sick of sandwiches pretty quickly. I wasn’t raised on bread.

But sometimes someone will get creative and decide to do a big tray of nachos or something.