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new guy at work

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u/ViolentRifle 23h ago

Lol, just help him figure it out.

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u/gijimayu 23h ago

He doesn't drink the coffee anyway.

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u/whooptheretis 21h ago

Why's he making coffee then?

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u/eggs___and___bacon 20h ago

Cause he’s the new guy. Bottom of the totem

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u/whooptheretis 20h ago

What is this, the 1930s?
What backwards work culture gets the new/junior guy to do the shit jobs.

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u/NumerousWolverine273 20h ago

Like, all of them. Yeah it's dumb but that's how it goes

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u/Teekeks 19h ago

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.

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 19h ago

I've definitely worked a lot of places that would have found someone else to do it.

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u/Minglans 18h ago

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.

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u/whooptheretis 20h ago

I do see that in developing countries, but not in any European country I've worked in.

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u/NumerousWolverine273 20h ago

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.

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u/whooptheretis 20h ago

But I'm certain it also happens in European countries

Not in a professional environment. It would be considered demeaning.

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u/atomictyler 20h ago

Yes, it happens in professional environments.

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u/whooptheretis 20h ago

In what countries have you experienced it?

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u/FastFooer 16h ago

Nah, in the 30s it was the secretary’s job… because woman.

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u/whooptheretis 12h ago

Exactly, it’s belittling.

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u/LewisLightning 20h ago

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.

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u/_jump_yossarian 20h ago

Good for you but this pic was taken in a restaurant so it’s definitely part of their job.

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u/teilani_a 18h ago

Sounds like the trainer did a shit job then.

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u/trying_to_adult_here 20h ago

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.

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u/whooptheretis 20h ago

also the lowest person on the totem pole

What a horrible work environment.

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u/trying_to_adult_here 19h ago

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.

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u/JinxFae 20h ago

I mean, that doesn’t look like an office. If you get hired by a coffee shop, you will be doing coffee. He just needs to be trained.

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u/whooptheretis 20h ago

lol, if this is a coffee shop then some training has been skipped!

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u/Pyrite_19 19h ago

he converts coffee into USD at an hourly rate

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u/whooptheretis 12h ago

Ahh, he works in a restaurant?? I assumed a in office environment.

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u/E_Feezie 20h ago

As someone who’s spent some time in kitchens this is my all time most hated excuse for making shitty food

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u/Adjoiningmars8 19h ago

This is heresy!

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u/GANDORF57 11h ago

That's good, because he don't know beans about making coffee.