DMR in your Coffee....Follow

My coffee doubles to degrease diesel engines.

Well bummer, my wife just picked up one of those for herself because it's faster and she doesn't want to deal with the mess that is our old traditional coffee maker thing. We'll just be thankful we got one when we did I guess.

Death to corporations and such!

But if they can't monitor your usage, how will they know which coupons to e-mail to you? You're missing out on savings!

I don't think free beverages are the general rule, though I could be wrong.

I've only previously worked at a bank and restaurants and for family. Sure at the restaurants the coffee was free, but not at the bank. Currently my employer is the gubbermint. No free stuff on the taxpayers dime! In fact under this administration our 'refreshment' policy that allowed the purchase of coffee, tea etc for gatherings (meetings, trainings, presentations etc) was yanked.

We're allowed to buy coffee at the cafeteria, or there's a Starbucks in the hospital if you get desperate.

We do get refreshments for major internal gatherings on occasion, but they've pushed back against vendors bribing grad students to come to their product fairs with free food. Seems starving college students are the suggestible type and may have purchased a few to many pipets while under the influence of cheap sushi.

Let me work my way out of the woodwork to express my rage.

We had these stupid little waxed paper cones in my university. They worked fine, so long as you never wanted to put your drink down.

Saw an article that explained how a person going around with a trolley serving beverages to worker bees at desks was cheaper and more productive for almost every company. The person on the trolly is paid less than the worker bees at desks. Thus it is a waste of of money to have the higher paid worker bee spending time fetching their own drink. So much waste of money that the money saved from the time saved by desk bees NOT fetching their own drinks more than covers for the trolly person's wage.

If you say the phrase 'worker bee' one more time I'm going to turn this planet into radioactive slag, and I won't regret it.

That aside, I'm pretty skeptical; you can't focus on the same thing without ever taking a break. Making coffee or whatever (I don't drink it myself) gives you a bit of a rest and maybe a few minutes to think. The ritual of making hot drinks for co-workers also helps to strengthen bonds. You know, teambuilding. Everyone likes that.

Everyone that's a soulless managerial @#%^, that is. And who else matters?

ETA: Alright, Samira. That's it. We're moving the hand straight up to midnight.

I think we've had a good run, all in all.

Edited, Mar 3rd 2014 10:07pm by Kavekk

Street Worker Bees.

The coffee girl is the flower that the worker bees yearn to pollinate with their gossip.