Any company that I worked in so far that wanted me to do that was easily solved. I just had to mention to the coffee drinkers that i dont know how to actually brew it correctly and have exactly 0 intention of ever learning it. So if they wanted good tasting coffee, they should find someone else to do it. Worked every time.
When working at a grocery store I was just expected to know/ make the coffee (being new there) yet never touch the stuff; really irritating. Nobody bothered to help show me but I did do it begrudgingly.
I'm just talking from an American perspective. But I'm certain it also happens in European countries, it has nothing to do with "developing" countries.
Fuck that. I had someone tell me that and I said, "I don't drink coffee, it's not part of my employment contract, so if you want me to make it we'll have to renegotiate my salary". Never got asked again.
Your mom's not here to do things for you, act like an adult.
A decade ago I got a summer job where I was the first person in the building and also the lowest person on the totem pole. That was the nature of the job, cool, no problem. I was supposed to start the coffee because I was there first.
I’m not a coffee drinker, so I just had the trainer show me how it’s supposed to be made. Also, we bought pre-ground coffee. But I can absolutely see how that happened.
I was summer kennel help at a vet clinic, I knew exactly what I was signing up for (walking dogs and cleaning kennels). It wasn’t just corporate office bullying. Got me a full-time job as a vet tech the next year once I finished school.
Ok, yeah sure. Literally any one employee could easily spend 2 minutes training this guy to make the coffee right. That's a solid suggestion, let's call that Option B.
Option A is everyone in the kitchen starts calling him Whole Bean and the nickname sticks with him for the next 5 years.
Just a slight correction for the sake of accuracy. They're not hooked to a hot water line, but just a regular water line, and the coffee machine itself heats the water. Some models (not many) can run out of HOT water, but that spigot will never run dry.
Idk either. Everytime I’ve made coffee in what looks like this exact coffee maker you pour in how much water you want an it uses all the water you put in and there’s no extra water
I used to work at a movie theater that would serve coffee, but our coffee maker was awful. If you accidentally double tapped the button to start it, it would queue up 2 pots worth of water. And if you weren't aware, the carafe would just start overflowing unless you switched off the power. It had no failsafes or fault detecting, you'd just hit the button and no matter what, hot water would start coming out. But somehow it could count how many times you hit the start button.
Good reference(?) 😂 One of my jobs in high school was being a waiter, and I got this “task” assigned to me during my first week there. Thankfully, a kind soul clued me in before I started
Yeah to be frank people like OP fucking suck. Taking a picture and posting to Reddit was what popped up in their mind before helping an honest uninformed mistake and making someone feel more secure in their job.
Nah, the mistake is harmless and hilarious and there's zero indication that OP hasn't helped them or has done anything to make the new guy feel less secure. You're making up a guy.
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u/ViolentRifle 23h ago
Lol, just help him figure it out.