Let's list some Office Coffee Rules to Live By:
1) Thou shalt start a new brew if thy current cup drainest the pot to less than 2 cups, before walking away.
Feel free to add more coffee commandments.
Let's list some Office Coffee Rules to Live By:
1) Thou shalt start a new brew if thy current cup drainest the pot to less than 2 cups, before walking away.
Feel free to add more coffee commandments.
2) If forced to use a K-cup or similar system, thou shalt not leave thy deceased cups in the machine.
Don't berkeley with the guy who gets your coffee.
Maybe not so much "office" etiquette, but still job related.
if you go in my desk and steal my liquid creamer and i catch you i will literally end you
No joke, it states in our official employee handbook that if you take the last cup you make new pot.
Just for kicks I make it the strength I like instead of the rusty water everyone else drinks.
If you want good coffee, make your own. I have for about 20 years now.
Whoever maketh the coffee, decideth the strength.
Learned that one while working for a grizzled old Marine. He used two filters and two packets of coffee. It was damn near green. He drank it black from a cup he never rinsed out.
Now I work from home and I'm the only person in the house that drinks coffee. If the coffee situation is bad, it is my own fault.
I am usually one of the first people in my office in the mornings. Even though I don't drink coffee I usually start a pot of the dark roast. I figure it should help cut down on morning grumpiness 
I end up making coffee on average twice a day. I drink 1 cup.
The first time, I show up and it's empty. I get it ready to go and start it while I attend a 15 minute daily meeting. Come back and it's empty.... fffffffuuuuuu!
I make more coffee and wait for it to get my 1 cup. Half the time somebody comes over and grabs a cup while it is still brewing.... ffffffuuuu.... don't do that shiny happy person! The entire pot is now ruined!
In reply to wvumtnbkr :
That's a good reason to make your own coffee. With some kind of single cup maker.
Someone - and it stands to reason that it should be a coffee drinker - should check the coffee machine status before everyone leaves for the evening. Burned coffee smell is no joke.
At our place it's only me and one other regular coffee drinker. Everyone else drinks road tar. If the filter is not overflowing with dry coffee before brewing starts, they ain't happy. Then they only pour a half cup and fill the rest with sugar and creamer...
To me, if you can't stomach the base drink, you made it wrong...
All coffee should be weapons grade. When I make it at work, I use two of the dark roast. They won't let me near the bustelo anymore. Customers were hallucinating. You want froufrou? Go to berkeleying Starbucks.
Yea the last shop I worked at in virginia didn't want me making the coffee anymore. Only a few of the older techs would even drink it.
Ain't got no problem with it if you make it AND drink it as you made it. If it takes three scoops (not spoonfuls) of creamer and twice as much sugar to make the medicine go down, yer wastin' grounds making it that strong.
I heart this thread.
I function as the office barista.
On more than one occassio I have done the cost per cup calculation to justify a solid bean ground espresso maker vs the dark forces of the K-cup empire.
Mndsm said:All coffee should be weapons grade. When I make it at work, I use two of the dark roast. They won't let me near the bustelo anymore. Customers were hallucinating. You want froufrou? Go to berkeleying Starbucks.
Quoting for awesomeness...
Starbucks sucks precisely because their roast is overly dark. Dark "leaded" coffee has less caffeine. No thanks.
All the coffee fiends sucking down the 5th cup of the morning shall not give me guff while I drink my Mountain Dew.
We have cops walking the halls at night; coffee, sugar etc. disappears. I kept a small Kureg hidden under a cardboard box with the back and bottom cut out.
Appleseed said:All the coffee fiends sucking down the 5th cup of the morning shall not give me guff while I drink my Mountain Dew.
This is why I judge soda drinkers.
As a recovering soda addict myself, i will keep drinking my coffee black.
Mndsm said:All coffee should be weapons grade. When I make it at work, I use two of the dark roast. They won't let me near the bustelo anymore. Customers were hallucinating. You want froufrou? Go to berkeleying Starbucks.
This. You can't make weak coffee stronger, but you can always add a little water if you're not tough enough to drink it the real way.
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