Milk snatchers! Robbo chiefs stop giving away free milk

Scandal as staff reserve milk for ‘customers only’

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Stingy cafe bosses have put an end to free milk in the library – leaving cheap tea-bringers in despair.

Robbo staff have caused a stir in the library after snatching milk from the cafe, limiting use of condiments to “customers only”.

The shock announcement was first made beside the cup dispenser on the vending machine on Sunday, in the form of this sellotaped note.

Didn’t seem legit

A request for milk used to be met with sympathetic smiles. But now, in the cruel move, Newcastle students who bring in their own hot drinks will be denied access to cafe milk.

The positive among us were sure that some trouble-maker, armed with paper, a pen and sellotape, had gone out with the aim of causing carnage with this twisted joke.

But then Monday came, and yet more signs surfaced. New notices, written on sandwich bags, read: “These condiments are for our customers only NOT for vending machine”.

Sadness on a sandwich bag

So it looks like library-goers will now have to buy an entire carton of milk (or buy tea from the cafe). But most students will be wondering what to do with one cup of tea and an entire carton of milk.

There might no use crying over spilt milk – but if only there’s no milk to spill, then surely we can cry away.

Abbie Higgins says: “I just saw enough people getting done for using the stuff on the counter, and they said management have said you cant use it anymore. I had to purchase a 70p carton of milk which is going to go off because of the tropical conditions of this place”.

Scenes resembling the outcry against Margaret Thatcher the ‘milk snatcher’ are gathering. Where are we to get our calcium from now? First the fee increase, and now this. The 2008 economic crisis has had greater implications than we ever imagined.

Deserted

This spot used to be a thriving hub of activity, with laughter radiating around the cafe. All that is left now is two full jugs of milk, some stirrers, sugar, a sign and sadness.

This teabag fears the tidal wave of milk it will face

One distressed and revision-battered student feared punishment for commenting and asked to remain anonymous, saying: “‘I’m on first name terms with the cafe staff, I can’t have my golden name dragged through the mud.”

SO MUCH MILK

So as cafe chiefs force cheap students to bring in their own milk, could this mean milking part two? It’s as if they are trying to encourage this behaviour.

But the milk saga isn’t the first instance of fascist-like behaviour. Staff have even started to look out for the book-on-the-enter-key tactic over the revision period.

The question on many lips is why do this when we are at our most vulnerable? With a mere six days until the official beginning of exam season, the tear-count-total is building, and it’s no longer enough to arrive at the library at 7:30am when others have been there all night. Is a splash of milk so much to ask?