From Left to Right we've got:
*Tristian who is the full time filing temp. He makes my job enjoyable and we spend a fair amount of time talking about music, how we are both maybe a little *too* detail oriented, our favorite little habits that we have that make filing more fun than it has any right to be, and generally palling around. He says "You know, literally..." way too much.
*Brenda who is filing boss extraordinaire. She has been working at Finsbury for a long time and the filing cabinets are very definitely hers. She makes me smile, calls everyone darling, and is good at figuring out just when I need to switch tasks so that I don't cross my eyes and crumple into a little over-filed ball. She is also the master at finding lost files.
*Simran and Sammy. Simran had Tristian's job before I showed up and everyone shifted up a position. Simran is very friendly and welcoming and is one of the reasons this office is frequently giggling. Sammy is...HR person? Coordinator of the secretaries and filing people? She runs our office- but I'm not sure what her title is. Also: lovely person.
I've spent the last two days at work filing. That is it; just putting files back on the shelves in alphabetical order. Now, this may sound typical since my job title is after all "temp-filing" but usually I get to do something else- like labeling, or pulling files, or franking all the mail. But no, the last couple of days have been just filing. 
This is an average sized kitchen cabinet. This average sized cabinet is used solely to hold tea bags and sugar. Each of those PGtips bags holds an "average of 1150 tea bags." The first time I opened this cabinet door I burst out laughing. One of the most common phrases heard in the office and one that I think I could now do in a flawless British accent is "would anyone like a tea or coffee...?"
These are the kettles (and the toaster, but whatever). I don't know how well you can tell this- but the kettles light up- the red one in the back is red because it is heating the water, the one in front is blue because it is not currently heating water. They glow. I think it would be more useful to have the light turn blue again once the water is no longer hot enough to make tea with- but that would be significantly more difficult and you can always just look to see if the kettle is still steaming or not.
This isn't a terribly appetizing example- but one of the best things about Finsbury is that not only are there innumerable tea and coffee breaks- but there is always cake! (cookies, chocolates, little gummy candies, etc.) Today there were variations on date cakes.
You can't really see this in the picture, but the sign on the window asks us to please wash our own dishes/cutlery so that other people don't have to. As you can see by the state of the sink- this is largely ignored. On Wednesday someone was soaking a jumper (sweater) in the little section on the right of the sink. It was weird. I tend to wash mugs/cups when I am desperately in need of a filing diversion.
