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Sep. 30th, 2004 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziCoffee etiquette rant.
The guy that resigned a few weeks back was a huge coffee drinker. He drank more coffe in a day than even I did back when I worked at Dover. As a result, the pot rarely ever got low.
He's gone and now that I'm in the office across from the microwave/sink/coffeemaker, I get to view the effects of his absence. The coffeemaker is one of those typical commercial types. It has 3 burners and its own water line. Put a filter and coffee in the hopper, push the start switch, and it makes a pot of coffee. Doesnt take long to do, and it's not exactly rocket science. It's got 3 pots. One orange handle, which is the traditional color for decaf, one red handle, and one gold handle. For whatever reason, 'regular' coffee has always been made in the gold one.
Since the coffee-holic is gone, I've observed a few things. The first is that people are incredibly lazy. Nobody wants to make a pot of coffee. They'll leave a few tablespoons worth left in the bottom of the pot, apparently believing that if there's any liquid in there, then you don't have to make more. They'll also avoid making a pot, when they come for coffee and there's not enough in there. Walk up, pick up the pot, swirl it around, put it back, and go away. Obviously, they're hoping someone else will make some soon. The byproduct of the lazy factor is that the heat from the warmer evaporates what's left in the pot and it starts to burn. This leads to observation 2: a slight change is impossible to comprehend.
The fequent scenario is this: Someone leaves too-little coffee in the gold pot. Nobody makes more. Coffee burns. I get fed up with the stink, take the pot off the burner, and put it in the sink after it cools. Someone gripes about how nobody makes coffee and makes some in the red pot. Others come for coffee, and get confused. This isn't the gold pot. It's red. This obviously means that this is decaf, some kind of poison coffee, or old motor oil or something. They then go around asking folks, starting with me, what it is.
Finally, people seem to have decided I'm responsible for the coffee, since I'm stuck in the nearest office. If it burns, if they want some and nobody else made some, or whatever, they come to my door and ask me about it. My usual responses of "Huh. Really?" aint the sympathetic reply they're hoping for.
Right now the gold pot is in the sink. The red one's on the burner with almost nothing in it, and I've spotted 4 people who have picked up the pot, put it back, and left with their empty mug. I should take bets on whether they'll let the red one burn too.
The guy that resigned a few weeks back was a huge coffee drinker. He drank more coffe in a day than even I did back when I worked at Dover. As a result, the pot rarely ever got low.
He's gone and now that I'm in the office across from the microwave/sink/coffeemaker, I get to view the effects of his absence. The coffeemaker is one of those typical commercial types. It has 3 burners and its own water line. Put a filter and coffee in the hopper, push the start switch, and it makes a pot of coffee. Doesnt take long to do, and it's not exactly rocket science. It's got 3 pots. One orange handle, which is the traditional color for decaf, one red handle, and one gold handle. For whatever reason, 'regular' coffee has always been made in the gold one.
Since the coffee-holic is gone, I've observed a few things. The first is that people are incredibly lazy. Nobody wants to make a pot of coffee. They'll leave a few tablespoons worth left in the bottom of the pot, apparently believing that if there's any liquid in there, then you don't have to make more. They'll also avoid making a pot, when they come for coffee and there's not enough in there. Walk up, pick up the pot, swirl it around, put it back, and go away. Obviously, they're hoping someone else will make some soon. The byproduct of the lazy factor is that the heat from the warmer evaporates what's left in the pot and it starts to burn. This leads to observation 2: a slight change is impossible to comprehend.
The fequent scenario is this: Someone leaves too-little coffee in the gold pot. Nobody makes more. Coffee burns. I get fed up with the stink, take the pot off the burner, and put it in the sink after it cools. Someone gripes about how nobody makes coffee and makes some in the red pot. Others come for coffee, and get confused. This isn't the gold pot. It's red. This obviously means that this is decaf, some kind of poison coffee, or old motor oil or something. They then go around asking folks, starting with me, what it is.
Finally, people seem to have decided I'm responsible for the coffee, since I'm stuck in the nearest office. If it burns, if they want some and nobody else made some, or whatever, they come to my door and ask me about it. My usual responses of "Huh. Really?" aint the sympathetic reply they're hoping for.
Right now the gold pot is in the sink. The red one's on the burner with almost nothing in it, and I've spotted 4 people who have picked up the pot, put it back, and left with their empty mug. I should take bets on whether they'll let the red one burn too.
