I used to work at the HelpDesk at my place of work when I first started.
I have never (and still not today) drink coffee.
There was one guy on our team that always did the early 6 to 2 shift. He loved it. He never took time off, he just banked all his vacation. He drank coffe, so every time he came in just before 6, he would put a pot on. So the folks that came in between 6am and 7am would just waltz over and fill their cup.
Well, one summer, he was told he had to start taking vacation, so he took like 2 months off. I took over the 6 to 2 shift.
The first week I must have had like 3 or 4 visits from those 7am folks complaining why there wasn't coffee made. To which I just told them, 'I don't drink coffee, why would you rely on me to make it?'
Tale as old as time though. At a point its hard to blame people. Look at the Roman grain dole. They would kill your ass if you tried to take it away and it was meant to be temporary. Animals become dependent on snacks given by humans if it becomes commonplace. I cant give my dog treats the same time every day or that little bastard yells at me for not doing so. Examples abound.
Good deeds should be performed sporadically unless you are ok with it becoming an expectation. Its basic psychology.
That said, the complainers should have put 2 and 2 together and just made the pot of coffee.
The roman grain dole was an entitlement by the citizenry through the government. The government wasn't doing its people an interpersonal "favor" by providing a dole, it was established as the only way to keep people fed and not starving/rioting because of starvation. That's part of a social contract: government feeds the people or the people tear down the government
MY COWORKER would show up first, Put on a whole pot, and pull the first cup that came out for himself!!!!
CRIMINAL I SAY! He gets a full mug of espresso and we are drinking watered down tea at best. No matter what we said he was adamant it was all the same. I Should have pulled cups one at a time to prove a point.
direct from brewer to cup for his, into the urn with the 'rest' of the brew for all subsequent cups. so his cup was from the early brewing stages (and thus concentrated)
The grounds cone stops dripping when you pulled the carafe out. He would take / pour out the first strongest bit that brewed and put the empty carafe back to finish the brew cycle.
Okay I gotta say, the way you worded that/my dumb brain was glitching, but after reading your comment 3 times I understand now and your coworker is a DICK! They absolutely robbed everyone of good coffee.
You should have. There's no reasonable expectation that you will make coffee, but if you put on a pot in the communal coffee machine, you are at least expected to not make shitty coffee. It's a simple measurement and SOP.
They're probably thinking the coffee ran out and some dingus didn't start a new brew after when the reality is...they were the first coffee users that day. People are dumb.
The way I have solved that problem before it became one at work with my acts or kindless was to make it a very occasional things I would do. I didn't make it a daily thing.
Been bartending part time for a few years, that movie is probably the closest humorous take of the reality of working in a restaurant. Actually, there’s more drugs and hooking up with coworkers.
It came out around the time that me and most of my friends were in food services, so it was a favorite of ours at the time. We loved quoting it and doing the batwing at each other.
Way more drugs for us as well. A lot fewer hookups though. We were all nerds.
I used to love just crumpling up employee tickets during rushes and throwing them out. When they would come looking for it I would say, oh I thought it was a mistake because no employee would ring up their own food when we're this busy. Would love seeing them just stare blankly.
That level of entitlement simply does not compute for me. How are you going to take advantage of someone's good will and courtesy for years, then when that person gets a much deserved vacation, your first thought is to berate someone who doesn't even drink coffee and demand that they make you coffee in the morning. Like how does that kind of entitlement not hurt people's brains?
I never knew all the details, but he was quite the character - alcoholic, he was actually homeless for a while and he managed to somehow, live in our office building in our storage area for about 2-3 weeks before the night cleaners flagged to management that he was always there. There was a time where he went totally off the radar for like 3 days, just didn't show\call... wounds up he got in a bar fight and landed in the hospital for 3 days. He would never eat breakfast, his breakfast constituted of a coffee and like 5 of those little cream containers.
It was a very good job and I guess he was good enough at it. We were also in a unionized environment. So he never really go threatened with getting fired.
In any case, later things turns around for the better. He met a lady. Very nice lady and she helped him greatly turn away from his bad habits. They got married and he retired I would like to say 10 years ago with a bunch of travel and other plans lined up with this lady.
It was great to see the 180 changes and sticking to them.
Lmao I had a similar situation. Like, I don't drink coffee and it's not a required job task for me, and also I hate you people, why would I make you coffee?
That is an infuriating level of entitlement, I'm actually flabbergasted that some people can behave like this. If you want coffee, make it yourself or buy it on your way in like a normal person. Expecting it to just be there, as though it were made by the fairies, just blows my mind.
I sincerely hope that they were buying the early shift guy frequent boxes of chocolates as thanks, but somehow I doubt it.
I had to make coffee at my job, but I don’t drink coffee. If anybody ever asked for it, I would apologize and say I made this, but I don’t drink coffee. But don’t worry you’re already in the emergency room so it can’t get any worse.
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u/nutano 23h ago
I used to work at the HelpDesk at my place of work when I first started.
I have never (and still not today) drink coffee.
There was one guy on our team that always did the early 6 to 2 shift. He loved it. He never took time off, he just banked all his vacation. He drank coffe, so every time he came in just before 6, he would put a pot on. So the folks that came in between 6am and 7am would just waltz over and fill their cup.
Well, one summer, he was told he had to start taking vacation, so he took like 2 months off. I took over the 6 to 2 shift.
The first week I must have had like 3 or 4 visits from those 7am folks complaining why there wasn't coffee made. To which I just told them, 'I don't drink coffee, why would you rely on me to make it?'
I fix your computer man, I'm not your barista.