We had a rather fun "welcome to the new office" meeting yesterday afternoon. It was established that everyone and not just the chiefs & big-wigs will receive key card access to all doors, which was met with a resounding cheer. Previously we'd been forced to come in the front door only, yet we could leave the office by any door. The big-wigs, on the other hand, can come and go as they please.
One Inspector also enquired as to why we couldn't have our drip-filter coffee pot in the new breakroom. Our Bureau Chief asked why we didn't have it. Confusion reigned for a minute as everyone thought everyone else had said NO to the pot, then the Bureau Chief said if we had it, it was fine by him if we set it up. Keep in mind we already have a Keurig machine which makes a freshly brewed 8oz cup of coffee, in the flavor and strength of your choice, whenever you want it, but some people still want the coffee from the pot.
As soon as the meeting was over I located the pot, placed it on the counter next to our Keurig machine, plugged it in, and walked away. In the cupboard above the pot is the grinder, coffee beans and filters, and while I might be in charge of the Keurig machine (ordering supplies, paying bills, etc), I was not the one who brought up the coffee pot topic. I don't want the thing, and I'll be damned if I'm spending half my day making coffee for people. Plus I've been cutting way back on my coffee consumption, some days I don't even have a single cup, so I'm not making 10 pots of coffee a day for other people to drink. It's not in my job description, and until the Bureau Chief tells me I have to do it, I'm not doing it.
This morning the Inspector who spoke up in the meeting stopped by my desk and said to me with a grin that he bet I was glad I had the coffee pot back, just one more thing to take care of.
No, I said, with an equally large shit-eating grin on my face.
You're not going to make the coffee, he asked.
No, I replied, still grinning like a lunatic. If people want coffee from the pot I'm sure someone will make it, I told him.
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If people want drop filtered coffee instead of hi-tech freshly brewed coffee, they can make it themselves. Mwah hah ha!
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Hell yeah I'm with you. The people I work with drink coffee by the gallon; some of them are up to at least 8 cups per day. Noone ever wants to make the coffee and some of the lazier bastards that I work with even make coffee out of the grounds from the day before.. eeeewww.:(
We have two coffee pots, one drip style that makes 10 cups and one monster drum looking machine that makes 30 cups and noone ever wants to clean the pot; nor do they want to make it in the morning. I have started to stop at the local 711 for my morning cup of Joe just so I can honestly say that I don't drink company coffee; therefor I am not going to make it! Stick it to those that are sticky is my motto.
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