The Tea Drought

I read an interesting fact the other day. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. In our office, I can quite confidently say it’s the other way round. Our kettle is by far the hardest working member of our team and without it we would be at a loss, or at least the three heavy tea drinkers, myself included, would be. In less than five weeks, we have worked our way through a box of 250 tea bags and countless pints of milk.

 I think tea is a versatile drink that plays a vital role in our daily lives. It’s a drink shared between friends over gossip- it helps to forge bonds. It can be a drink to cheer someone up or an energy drink. Within our office, brainstorms are rarely held without a cuppa in hand – I strongly believe it helps to spur our creativity. Consumed first thing in the morning, the first round of teas is always met with huge enthusiasm and it is only after that first restorative sip that the thunderous sound of keyboards tapping begins.

This Wednesday, our office suffered a fate worse than death. We ran out of tea bags.

Now I know the fact our office was without tea bags for several hours isn’t front page news. It won’t be trending on Twitter or have the FT banging down our door but, for us, the impact was severe.

Working in PR, we pride ourselves on our ability to anticipate change and spot potential crisis. We then take the necessary steps in advance to avoid them. Here at Wordville, we’re experts in crisis management. We anticipated this near disaster the previous Monday and placed an order with Tesco’s for delivery on Wednesday afternoon. Ideally we would have picked Wednesday morning but hey- you can’t win them all. 


By Pema Seely