I’m in an industry where pay bands are public and everyone knows who makes what.
The easiest way to find out who’s a cheap fuck is to offer up and buy a round of coffee. Nine times out of ten, you’ll get a coffee back next time they’re swinging by. Happy days.
Even for the one in ten, it’s not a deal-breaker. If my round comes round again, then yeah everyone gets offered. Nine times out of ten, you’ll get one offered back.
If someone either doesn’t collar me privately and say “hey thanks for the coffee but don’t expect one back” or “sorry man, I don’t feel comfortable doing rounds” then that’s absolutely cool, I qint here to judge reasons - but if you take two coffees and offer fuck all, then that’s a cheap and easy way of finding out who’s not the giving kind. Even if someone was brave enough to say “dude I can’t afford a round” then I’d happily say “pipe down, these are on me then”.
I don’t judge them. I just don’t offer a coffee in future.
You need to stop buying 9 or 10 rounds of coffee. That’s hundreds of dollars. Buy better beans once and make 10 pots instead. Or get an espresso machine if you need to. It’s super easy, and more fun.
Honestly I’d love to have some logical, economic, or entertaining argument to debate you but I don’t have one - you’re right.
Problem is, we need to make 24/7 coverage of this task and honestly some people are just minging - we’ve come in to coffee pots with mould on the surface, and as much as I’m willing to become one with nature, that ain’t tickling my fancy.
We are however lucky enough to have an indie coffee shop in our local town so at least our pennies are going to a decent pocket, and in fairness the owner is a lovely bloke so I’m quite happy to plan my mortgage payments around him.
There’s a very simple solution to this problem, but you may not like it. Tell everyone the coffee pot needs to be washed every day and put up a sheet assigning the task to people. When that person washes the pot, they sign the sheet. If you have a camera in the break room, it’s even more effective.
Then you can see on the sheet who was supposed to wash the pot but didn’t (or did it poorly). It will not work with people who say it’s “not their job”, but at least the problem is clearly visible.
I started a new job in a secure building (I thought).
Coffee was crap so i brought in my Chemex pour over coffee maker. Made a pot and shared with my team often.
3 weeks in someone stole my Chemex off of my desk (I left it there).
No one offered anything to me even tho I’ve made them hundreds of dollars worth of coffee. And i didnt ask or hold it against them.
I was being nice. I didn’t have an agenda or test people. I lost my chemex. Shit happens. I bought a new one and kept it in my desk. Still kept making coffee for the fellas.
You’ll judge people for not wanting to drop a bunch of money on coffee for everyone? Just your own quiet expectations? Honestly kinda fucked up. You say you don’t judge but you literally do
I’m in an industry where pay bands are public and everyone knows who makes what.
The easiest way to find out who’s a cheap fuck is to offer up and buy a round of coffee. Nine times out of ten, you’ll get a coffee back next time they’re swinging by. Happy days.
Even for the one in ten, it’s not a deal-breaker. If my round comes round again, then yeah everyone gets offered. Nine times out of ten, you’ll get one offered back.
If someone either doesn’t collar me privately and say “hey thanks for the coffee but don’t expect one back” or “sorry man, I don’t feel comfortable doing rounds” then that’s absolutely cool, I qint here to judge reasons - but if you take two coffees and offer fuck all, then that’s a cheap and easy way of finding out who’s not the giving kind. Even if someone was brave enough to say “dude I can’t afford a round” then I’d happily say “pipe down, these are on me then”.
I don’t judge them. I just don’t offer a coffee in future.
You need to stop buying 9 or 10 rounds of coffee. That’s hundreds of dollars. Buy better beans once and make 10 pots instead. Or get an espresso machine if you need to. It’s super easy, and more fun.
Honestly I’d love to have some logical, economic, or entertaining argument to debate you but I don’t have one - you’re right.
Problem is, we need to make 24/7 coverage of this task and honestly some people are just minging - we’ve come in to coffee pots with mould on the surface, and as much as I’m willing to become one with nature, that ain’t tickling my fancy.
We are however lucky enough to have an indie coffee shop in our local town so at least our pennies are going to a decent pocket, and in fairness the owner is a lovely bloke so I’m quite happy to plan my mortgage payments around him.
Point taken though, I appreciate it 😁
There’s a very simple solution to this problem, but you may not like it. Tell everyone the coffee pot needs to be washed every day and put up a sheet assigning the task to people. When that person washes the pot, they sign the sheet. If you have a camera in the break room, it’s even more effective.
Then you can see on the sheet who was supposed to wash the pot but didn’t (or did it poorly). It will not work with people who say it’s “not their job”, but at least the problem is clearly visible.
I started a new job in a secure building (I thought).
Coffee was crap so i brought in my Chemex pour over coffee maker. Made a pot and shared with my team often.
3 weeks in someone stole my Chemex off of my desk (I left it there).
No one offered anything to me even tho I’ve made them hundreds of dollars worth of coffee. And i didnt ask or hold it against them.
I was being nice. I didn’t have an agenda or test people. I lost my chemex. Shit happens. I bought a new one and kept it in my desk. Still kept making coffee for the fellas.
You’ll judge people for not wanting to drop a bunch of money on coffee for everyone? Just your own quiet expectations? Honestly kinda fucked up. You say you don’t judge but you literally do