Office etiquette: Coffee
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Not sure what the official "cut off is" but here in MY office they tend to go by those last two tablespoons "Burnt to a crisp at the bottom of the pot" as the first "clue".
I got tired of always making and never getting, I bring my own now LOL!0 -
I admit I am guilty of this. You can thrash me later...but in my defense, I make the first since I get here before everyone else.0
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Most of the time it's when someone smells the last two tablespoons burning to the bottom of the pot!
^^^Haaa apparently mines not the only one- we posted that at the same time^^
edited to add: I don't drink coffee so I don't feel responsible for making it.0 -
I make my own and bring in only a mug full. When that is gone I don't drink any more coffee. And I don't make any either, which people like to say something about. I don't drink it, why should I make it?0
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we have two coffee pots at my work, and they have a metal outside so you can't really see inside, so once it feels too light i'll put another on just to be safe. but i seem to be the only person drinking coffee at work. everyone else is sucking down diet pepsi at 9 am >.>0
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I make the coffee in my office-and I make it when I get in (around 7-7:15am) and then again at 11am. 1 pot regular, 1 decaf each time. We also have K-Cups and an espresso machine so after the pots are made at 11am, I refuse to make more :laugh:0
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I refill it if no more comes out. It is not glass, so it is not easy to tell ho much is left.0
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We started ordering Instant Nescafe (Colombian) coffee at work. Just add hot water from the cooler and presto! Some people chipped in and got themselves a Nespresso. One person got herself a tiny drip coffee maker. I wonder sometimes if I should bring my french press to work and keep it in my office.
The reason: no one has enough energy to go clean the darn drop coffee machine every morning and make new coffee. Everyone looks around at everyone else to get up and make coffee. Lazy a$$es!0 -
Got tired of the offic etiquette here. Nobody ever cleaned the Coffeemaker and often left half a cup in the pot. Last year, I bought two new coffemakers. I replaced the communal one and put the other one on my desk. So as not to hurt everyone's feelings, I told them I had switched to Decaf and would be using my own private coffeemaker and bought them a new one to replace theirs.
Worked perfect. I now keep a clean cofeemaker on my desk, use a premium selected blend and theirs looks like hell again.0 -
I can't count the number of times I've made a fresh pot in the teacher lunch room, gone to run an errand for ten minutes, and returned to find an empty pot--with the pot warmer still on! This is why I have a pot in my room and make my own. If I make it, I know it's fresh and not the just-add-a-couple-of-scoops-to-the-old-stuff swill.0
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Back in the days when I worked in an office, I was forever putting a pot on to brew and coming back a few minutes later to get a cup to find it empty/almost empty.
At first I was like
But then, after the 200th time I was like
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If there is one cup left for another person, you don't need to make more. If you are running short of time, then don't make another pot!0
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Sounds like what I do with my housemates at home lol! The dirty b-tards lol0
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We have a K cup machine here, so no worries there. However, I am often the one putting out new K cups from the supply closet or am making sure they get ordered. This is despite the fact that I don't use the machine very often.0
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Got tired of the offic etiquette here. Nobody ever cleaned the Coffeemaker and often left half a cup in the pot. Last year, I bought two new coffemakers. I replaced the communal one and put the other one on my desk. So as not to hurt everyone's feelings, I told them I had switched to Decaf and would be using my own private coffeemaker and bought them a new one to replace theirs.
Worked perfect. I now keep a clean cofeemaker on my desk, use a premium selected blend and theirs looks like hell again.
Just wait until someone gets pregnant or if someone's doctor tells them they need to cut back on the caffeine! :laugh:0 -
I make my own and bring in only a mug full. When that is gone I don't drink any more coffee. And I don't make any either, which people like to say something about. I don't drink it, why should I make it?
They probably see you with a mug of coffee and mistakenly assume you are drinking from the community pot.0 -
Why should people keep refilling it? How do they know more people are going to drink it? It could just sit unused for the rest of the day.
Personally, I feel like like if you want to drink coffee you are lucky if someone else already had it made. That is a perk. Otherwise, just make it yourself. That's the way it is in my office. As a courtesy you can make a whole pot instead of enough just for yourself this way the next person looking for a coffee fix is happy to see some made but again, it gets to the point in the day where most people dont need any more coffee.0 -
I always bring my own.0
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Just exactly how empty does a coffee pot need to be before you will brew a new pot?
Because I'm pretty sure people aren't clammoring for the two tablespoons of coffee I was just left with!!!!
We just had a service tech come out to look out our "brewer" and was told that nobody services those anymore. So to answer your filling question, the answer is easy. Replace the brewer with singles makers.
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This is annoying!
If there's less than a cup, I'll dump it and start a new pot.0 -
Most people at my place of employment don't understand the first thing about coffee etiquette. The brewer in our area has three burners, and my boss (the IT director) will make three pots as soon as he gets in (first person here usually). By 9:30, all three pots will be bone dry or close to it, and most of the time, the idiots who take all the coffee won't even bother turning the burner off, much less make a new pot. The part that pi**es me off the most is that to make a new pot, all you have to do is throw a new pack in the basket (filter and coffee all in one), and press a button (brewer is fed by the building's water supply), yet if you call someone out for not making a new pot, they make it sound like you're asking them to go down to South America, pick the beans, roast and grind them and brew it after they had to walk 20 miles to get the water. I spend most of my time in the NOC, so I just bought my own Mr. Coffee machine and put it in there. Only IT can get into the NOC, and only two of us drink coffee. Now, since we don't drink from the office machines, it's fun watching the rest of the non-coffee makers fret and fume because there's never any coffee for them. :bigsmile:0
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I worked in a small office of coffee addicts a few years ago. If you wanted coffee you made a pot and offered everyone else a cup. That way one person gets a nice little displacement activity and everybody gets fresh coffee. We were never short on coffee.0
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Got tired of the offic etiquette here. Nobody ever cleaned the Coffeemaker and often left half a cup in the pot. Last year, I bought two new coffemakers. I replaced the communal one and put the other one on my desk. So as not to hurt everyone's feelings, I told them I had switched to Decaf and would be using my own private coffeemaker and bought them a new one to replace theirs.
Worked perfect. I now keep a clean cofeemaker on my desk, use a premium selected blend and theirs looks like hell again.
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Why should people keep refilling it? How do they know more people are going to drink it? It could just sit unused for the rest of the day.
When it's before 10am, and you're in an office of ~40 people, I think it's safe to say a new pot will be consumed. Hell, if you've been at your place of employment for more than a few months, you probably already have a good idea of the coffee drinking habits of many of your cowokers.0 -
I solved this problem by making my own coffee at home before I head out to work! I mostly only drink coffee in the mornings. Plus, my coffee grounds are WAY BETTER than the "bulk" kind at work!!!!
We do have an issue with the water cooler though, it seems like everyday I go to fill up I have to change it out. People are just lazy and disrespectful!0 -
We have a Keurig so we don't go through that!0
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We have a Flavia machine, so someone can always make their own individual cup. We also have 3 pots of coffee on the counter, so if there is room in another pot to dump it, we are supposed to start a new one. Usually though, the Office Professionals end up starting most of it I think.0
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I just drink my coffee at home before leaving for work. That way I don't have to worry about whether the coffee needs to be changed out or refilled. If they run out, it's not my problem. Plus I couldn't tell you the last time the machine was serviced/cleaned. Yuck.0
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If you have the room at your desk, or a back desk, get a Keurig. There was a guy who did that in my last office, and the office ended up getting one of the commercial ones for the whole place and put one in every break room. Was the best thing ever.0
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This is why I love my keurig! Do you have room for the mini one on your desk? If so I recommend it.0
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