A couple of weeks ago my office building installed coffee makers in all of the employee breakrooms. To some this might now seem like a big deal. I mean coffee costs around $1 at 7-11, and up to $5 at one of the fancy coffee chains. So coffee is readily available to consumers at all times of the day but not FREE at any of these locations. Now we could have as much coffee as we want, whenever we want, and at no cost to us at all.
I wasn't overly thrilled at the thought of sharing coffee with my fellow co-workers. Not that I have anything against them (most of them anyways). I just knew that having something as sophisticated as a coffee maker would cause confusion, frustration, and annoyance among the department. The coffee maker and the actual making of coffee became a bigger deal than necessary. There was a 15 minute training class for how to operate the coffee maker. Then there were special emails sent out about how to operate the machines with explicit directions to not shut off the machine EVER. What happened within the first 3 days of having the machine? Someone turned it off and then the next person claimed it was broken. Luckily I'm smarter than the average bear and after appraising the situation was able to literally flip the switch and make the machine run. I was a hero that morning.
As of now the machine hasn't caused any more problems. I'm hoping that the crazies in my department stick to decaf.
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You know the one thing that sucks with the Java is that when others make a pot, they don't leave the bag of what they just made. The last thing I want to be doing is drinking that dark roast crap that is made from recycled pavement. Or even worse, drink that pointless dirty brown water dubbed Decaf. People have started to catch on and leave some evidence of what they just made, so hopefully that will continue.
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