NBR: Office coffee drinkers

Kurzer · Post by **Kurzer** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:51 pm

If you're office is anything like mine, your coffee maker is in another room or otherwise away from your desk. Have you ever noticed when returning to your desk after killing a coffee that if you don't look at the cup while your walking you're fine... but if you look at the cup trying not to spill it's noticably harder to not spill the coffee?

I only bring this up after managing to get a nice spot on my jeans that looks like I just peed myself. I was tired and wasn't thinking to not concentrate on the cup, staring intently at the coffee swishing from side to side with every dainty step I tried to take until just into my cube and BAM! spilled coffee.

Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon?

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:27 pm

YES!

I try hard not to look at the coffee cup...but have you ever noticed that if you try NOT to look at it, your eyes are magnetically attracted to it anyway?

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:24 pm

Oh my goodness!!! I am f-ing livid! So we have two big coffee servers… easily 24-30 cups each. Why is it, that everytime I go in there to get coffee… they are both totally empty? Then while I am in the middle of cleaning them, making more coffee etc… people come in and complain that there is no coffee, and I know for a fact… they have never made a pot of coffee for the office in their lives! Its not hard… filter into tray, coffee into filter, hit the brew button… not hard! GRRRRR…. Not only that… I was in the middle of brewing the first pot, and we have the kind where you can get hot water out of a spout… one of the Property Managers comes in, and fills her huge mug with hot water for her tea!!! So now that first pot is luke warm brown, coffee flavored grossness!!!! AHHHH!!!!!! Does anyone else have this problem at their office?

k1dude · Post by **k1dude** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:27 pm

MikieTaps wrote:Oh my goodness!!! I am f-ing livid! So we have two big coffee servers… easily 24-30 cups each. Why is it, that everytime I go in there to get coffee… they are both totally empty? Then while I am in the middle of cleaning them, making more coffee etc… people come in and complain that there is no coffee, and I know for a fact… they have never made a pot of coffee for the office in their lives! Its not hard… filter into tray, coffee into filter, hit the brew button… not hard! GRRRRR…. Not only that… I was in the middle of brewing the first pot, and we have the kind where you can get hot water out of a spout… one of the Property Managers comes in, and fills her huge mug with hot water for her tea!!! So now that first pot is luke warm brown, coffee flavored grossness!!!! AHHHH!!!!!! Does anyone else have this problem at their office?

Just as bad are the ones that drink the most coffee and NEVER put money into the coffee donation jar. Grrrrr.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:28 pm

our office at least buys us the coffee....

but grrrrrr.... i always get the bottom of the old coffee then make new coffee, and it is gone when i go for a refill.... the nerve of some people!

Racenut · Post by **Racenut** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:36 pm

I'm a freak in that I've never tried walking with a cup of hot coffee without watching it to make sure I don't spill hahaha

I got an insulated cup with a sealed lid so after I add cream and sugar I can just shake it. So spilling on the way back to desk became a non-issue

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:50 pm

It always drives me nuts when people use MY personal coffee without asking. I'm a huge coffee snob. I won't touch the office luke warm brown water. I have a french press, a grinder and a pound of fresh beans in my office. People will come into MY office, grab my grinder and beans and walk out like I won't care! I buy freakin $10 beans! Its not ok to drink all my coffee for me!
Maybe I need to cut back.....

johnny_buddha · Post by **johnny_buddha** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:01 pm

MikieTaps wrote:Oh my goodness!!! I am f-ing livid! So we have two big coffee servers… easily 24-30 cups each. Why is it, that everytime I go in there to get coffee… they are both totally empty? Then while I am in the middle of cleaning them, making more coffee etc… people come in and complain that there is no coffee, and I know for a fact… they have never made a pot of coffee for the office in their lives! Its not hard… filter into tray, coffee into filter, hit the brew button… not hard! GRRRRR…. Not only that… I was in the middle of brewing the first pot, and we have the kind where you can get hot water out of a spout… one of the Property Managers comes in, and fills her huge mug with hot water for her tea!!! So now that first pot is luke warm brown, coffee flavored grossness!!!! AHHHH!!!!!! Does anyone else have this problem at their office?

You guys need Terry Tate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:04 pm

I would like to try George Carlin's kamikaze on coffee jerks...

Brew decaf for a whole month, then brew espresso.

WOOT!

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:05 pm

BOTH ARE GREAT SUGGESTIONS!!!!!

BigColdMartini · Post by **BigColdMartini** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:12 pm

I don't drink coffee because I don't like the way it tastes, I do however like the way it smells.

Of course I hate it whenever someone leaves about 1/8 inch in the bottom of the pot and it burns smelling up the whole office. Burnt popcorn in the microwave is pretty bad too.

k1dude · Post by **k1dude** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:13 pm

Ooooo! That Terry Tate is funny stuff!

Kurzer · Post by **Kurzer** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:54 am

Filling up huge cups after someone else has done the dirty work should be a bannable office offense! I hate cleaning out the old stuff, waiting for our no pressure water to fill the pot in just under 4 minutes then go take a phone call only to come back to an almost empty pot

newslinky · Post by **newslinky** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:10 am

I am very happy that I am not a coffee drinker for the very reasons listed by many of you. We have a coffee maker in our room at work and it amazes me how often people take the last of the coffee and then come back later and complain that someone hasn't made more. This is in addition to all the people in between that come in and complain but then do not bother making any themselves! It once got on my nerves so much that I went and made some just so I could have som peace.

charltons · Post by **charltons** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:50 pm

I keep several coffee pots in my classroom and sell it in the mornings for a fundraiser to buy equipment for my TV class. I'm kinda like a caffiene pusher...

I think the coffee spilling thing is like riding a scooter or MC- if you look down while you are turning you will mess up. Do the same thing while carrying the coffee

S- slow
L-look THROUGH the office towards your desk
P- press on handlebars (or coffee equivalent)
R- roll on the throttle (or coffee equivalent)

piceloni · Post by **piceloni** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:59 pm

Kaos wrote:It always drives me nuts when people use MY personal coffee without asking. I'm a huge coffee snob. I won't touch the office luke warm brown water. I have a french press, a grinder and a pound of fresh beans in my office. People will come into MY office, grab my grinder and beans and walk out like I won't care! I buy freakin $10 beans! Its not ok to drink all my coffee for me!
Maybe I need to cut back.....

Dude, heads would roll!!! The idiots in my office just never fill the water in our single cup brewers. I'm convinced these are he same people who don't replace the toilet paper rolls when they're empty.

DennisD · Post by **DennisD** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:09 pm

No problems. I have my own pot on my desk. No one else uses it but me. If its empty I did it. If its dirty I did it. If its hot I did it. If the switch is on and its empty over the weekend I did it.

Life is good.

k1dude · Post by **k1dude** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:34 pm

DennisD wrote:No problems. I have my own pot on my desk. No one else uses it but me. If its empty I did it. If its dirty I did it. If its hot I did it. If the switch is on and its empty over the weekend I did it.

Life is good.

I knew someone who used to do that. Other people would poach his coffee when he wasn't around. If the coffee machine in the break room was empty, people would walk over and see if he was in his cubicle. If he wasn't, they'd help themselves. Even his friends thought it was real funny to empty his pot. He gave up after a couple months.

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:07 am

Why is it that flights of stairs are no problem but walking a straight line on a level surface causes me to spill coffee?

With having a French press at home, using the coffee maker at work is actually kinda fun. We've got one of those big "institutional" coffee makers like they have in restaurants. Filter, grounds, hit START. WHOOSH! And is starts making coffee. I always make more coffee when I cash out a pot.

Granted, the resulting liquid only loosely resembles what I consider to be coffee...

Kurzer · Post by **Kurzer** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:50 pm

DennisD wrote:No problems. I have my own pot on my desk. No one else uses it but me. If its empty I did it. If its dirty I did it. If its hot I did it. If the switch is on and its empty over the weekend I did it.

Life is good.

I think I may need to look into that

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:50 pm

i would do that... but without a doubt... all the month end financials i push out every month would have coffee stains on them... and I would probably mess them up because i would drink EVEN MORE coffee than i do now. I am allready a 6-cup kinda guy...

DennisD · Post by **DennisD** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:53 pm

MikieTaps wrote:i would do that... but without a doubt... all the month end financials i push out every month would have coffee stains on them... and I would probably mess them up because i would drink EVEN MORE coffee than i do now. I am allready a 6-cup kinda guy...

Coffee stains are good. At least no one will steal credit for your work. It could become a signature.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:03 pm

hahaha a 3/4 circular brown stain next to my signature on the last page of the financials??? hahahahaha that would be awesome!!

Maybe i will do that during my last month of employment here

djelliott · Post by **djelliott** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:16 pm

It's an epidemic! Our coffee is painfully easy to make:

1. remove old filter

2. place in new filter

3. rip open pre-measured idiot proof package of coffee

4. Dump in filter

5. Press start

That's it! They even include those directions right above the machine for the extremely inept. Still we have hardcore coffee drinkers that openly refuse to make the coffee. Often with the uppity comment "It's not my job to make the coffee around this place, don't we have someone who does that". It makes want to punch them in the face and say "I guess it's not your job to protect your face when a fist is flying at it either". ARRRGGG I need more coffee! Wait, maybe I don't. wOOt

DJE

Disclaimer: I would never really punch someone over coffee and neither should you.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:34 pm

djelliott wrote:Often with the uppity comment "It's not my job to make the coffee around this place, don't we have someone who does that"

Why, yes, yes we do...the person who makes coffee is the one who drinks it. And look pointedly at them.

Or we could go back to kindergarten and use a chore chart with star stickers and all...

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:43 pm

djelliott wrote:
Disclaimer: I would never really punch someone over coffee and neither should you.

I would.

emoboy44 · Post by **emoboy44** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:41 pm

I would too

. Is that bad?

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:44 pm

I imagine after a bad morning ride, I would probably be ready to punch someone too for coffee...I have been known to give the hairy eyeball for lesser infractions.

iinigma7 · Post by **iinigma7** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:00 pm

Actually this thread should be labeled as "ISR" (is scooter related) because this same thing also happens to me when I'm riding. If I see a small piece of debris ahead and I stare at it and think " do not hit, do not hit" of course I always hit it. Same goes for potholes.

emoboy44 · Post by **emoboy44** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:17 pm

IT HAPPENED TO ME AGAIN!!!!!

Two of our HR employees walked out of the break room happy as S$*@ smiling, and talking with their hot steaming mugs of morning goodness.

I immedeatly thought of this post and thought naaah, they're HR, THEY KNOW BETTER!!!

On the bright side, at least they left enough coffee to tease my lips. I actually timed how long it took me to make more coffee. 14seconds. Thats like 150 seconds shorter than it took me to type this.

freakin' HR....where's terry tate?

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:39 pm

i am not at the office yet... i am having a slow morning...

but i am sure i will have something to complain about once i get there...

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:07 pm

So I thought today was going to be different…. We have two big commercial sized coffee pots and when I got my first cup I finished the bottom of one, and the other one was full. I made a new pot in the empty one and went back to the box they call my cubicle. Now I go back and there are property managers… read overpaid underworked a-holes that somehow have the favor of the president of the company… anyway, a group of PM’s standing around sipping their coffee talking about how great the “company” gold outing yesterday was. Except… no one in accounting was invited. In fact, the only people in the office yesterday were Accountants, and the Front desk people… The president has no respect for the people here that actually do the work. Anyway, I can let that all slide, until I get in to the coffee pots and they are both BONE DRY! Im gonna F-ing RAGE in this place!!! WTF?!?!?!

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:14 pm

NO WAY!!! As I was typing the previous post, I was waiting on the pot of Coffee that I had just set to brew. When I finished typing, I grabbed my mug and walked to the break room. On the way, I passed one of our conference room where the President, VP, and division heads were having a meeting with a new client. One of the Division Heads… knows I am the only one if the office that makes coffee… Gets up from the metting, empty coffee mug in hand… and follows me to the break room. You think if he wanted coffee so bad he could have made some for himself BEFORE the meeting with the NEW CLIENT… some people….

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:17 pm

Mikietaps: You should just suffer and NOT make coffee for a day or two. See if you can outlast all the people who won't make coffee. Give them a taste of how it feels.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:23 pm

Consider this your gift to yourself...

spend the money and pick up some really good coffee at one of the bean joints on your way to work. DO NOT MAKE COFFEE AT THE OFFICE! Everyone will smell your wonderful java and want to know where theirs is...point them to the coffeemaker and smile.

k1dude · Post by **k1dude** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:38 pm

bunny wrote:Consider this your gift to yourself...

spend the money and pick up some really good coffee at one of the bean joints on your way to work. DO NOT MAKE COFFEE AT THE OFFICE! Everyone will smell your wonderful java and want to know where theirs is...point them to the coffeemaker and smile.

I remember the responsible coffee drinkers in one office I worked at did that one time. They talked amongst themselves and agreed to not make coffee to FORCE the coffee jerks to break down and make a pot. They each brought their own thermos full of coffee to get through the day.

It didn't work. After a week and a half, not one single coffee pot was made. The jerks won. They absolutely would not make a pot. They would rather go without coffee than break down and make a pot. They were bitching like crazy, but still would not make a pot. The rest couldn't take it anymore and started making it again.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:42 pm

k1dude wrote:
bunny wrote:Consider this your gift to yourself...

spend the money and pick up some really good coffee at one of the bean joints on your way to work. DO NOT MAKE COFFEE AT THE OFFICE! Everyone will smell your wonderful java and want to know where theirs is...point them to the coffeemaker and smile.
I remember the responsible coffee drinkers in one office I worked at did that one time. They talked amongst themselves and agreed to not make coffee to FORCE the coffee jerks to break down and make a pot. They each brought their own thermos full of coffee to get through the day.

It didn't work. After a week and a half, not one single coffee pot was made. The jerks won. They absolutely would not make a pot. They would rather go without coffee than break down and make a pot. They were bitching like crazy, but still would not make a pot. The rest couldn't take it anymore and started making it again.

WOW.

That's some serious passive aggressive stubbornness right there. Glad you're not there anymore...can you imagine what kind of people they were...well hell, are. To go to such great lengths so as not to make coffee

k1dude · Post by **k1dude** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:48 pm

bunny wrote:WOW. That's some serious passive aggressive stubbornness right there. Glad you're not there anymore...can you imagine what kind of people they were...well hell, are. To go to such great lengths so as not to make coffee

LOL! You have no idea. The coffee jerks were all the exec's and some exec wanna bees. It was just part of the culture they fostered at that company. It really did suck to work there. I was an exec there, but did not fit in with the rest. But that's the story of my life.

emoboy44 · Post by **emoboy44** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:26 pm

k1dude wrote: LOL! You have no idea. The coffee jerks were all the exec's and some exec wanna bees. It was just part of the culture they fostered at that company. It really did suck to work there. I was an exec there, but did not fit in with the rest. But that's the story of my life.

and that's why you ride a scooter and they suck

k1dude · Post by **k1dude** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:30 pm

emoboy44 wrote:and that's why you ride a scooter and they suck

Right on!

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:27 pm

Apparently I'm not the only one at my office that doesn't like an empty pot.
Another guy in my office brewed a big pot of Thai Tea instead of coffee to spite the rest of the office. It looks more or less like black coffee in the pot, and most people in the office don't know the difference. They're in for a surprise today!!

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:31 pm

There was actually coffe in the pots today!!! HOLY CRAP!!

tunseeker1 · Post by **tunseeker1** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:38 pm

We had a little problem like that at work. It was easy to solve.

Just take the coffee makers out of the room and hide them. If you can't do that hide the coffee.

If that doesn't work then just start brewing tea for everyone. Watch how fast people will start making coffee!

And last but not least remember that bad coffee is a better deterent then no coffee. Run the pot with no filter for a few pots and have instant at your desk.

And last but not least. Put a sheet next to the coffee and everyone that makes some writes it down. If people don't make more then gang up on them.
Signs work wonders!
"If you don't make it don't take it"

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:41 pm

And I was just thinking on the way in this morning that if office coffee drama is what we worry about, we scooterists have a leg up on the cagers.

emoboy44 · Post by **emoboy44** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:43 pm

Kaos wrote:Apparently I'm not the only one at my office that doesn't like an empty pot.
Another guy in my office brewed a big pot of Thai Tea instead of coffee to spite the rest of the office. It looks more or less like black coffee in the pot, and most people in the office don't know the difference. They're in for a surprise today!!

Brilliant. You should give him five bucks just for doing that!

johnny_buddha · Post by **johnny_buddha** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:53 pm

How about making decaf instead?

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:54 pm

I really should. I actually love Thai Tea, so its no big deal to me.

Someone asked a moment ago why their coffee smelled like "pot".

DennisD · Post by **DennisD** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:14 pm

Has anyone even remotely considered the ancient practice of making coffee at home and bringing it with you in a thermos??

By the way, I called in yesterday and stayed home to watch the last alpine stage in the TdF. Wandered into work at noon and made myself a pot of fresh coffee at my desk. Sure was easy. One of my supervisor's asked if I had had coffee yet when I was passing the control room. He was pouring a cup from his thermos rather than use the Bunn pot because he likes his coffee made his way. I passed on it and made my own.

Anothe teeny tiny aggravation in life defeated.

BGK · Post by **BGK** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:11 pm

I can't stand the smell of coffee and hate to even visit an office with a coffee maker. Coffee drinkers are as selfish as smokers when blowing their aromas around.

k1dude · Post by **k1dude** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:31 pm

BGK wrote:I can't stand the smell of coffee and hate to even visit an office with a coffee maker. Coffee drinkers are as selfish as smokers when blowing their aromas around.

Be thankful you don't have kimchi lovers in the office.

Whenever you think you have it bad, someone else is worse off.