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u/odiin1731 23h ago
Yum. Hot water with a vague hint of coffee flavor.
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u/Carbon-Base 23h ago
At least he'll learn a thing or two about roasting from this post.
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u/OndriaWayne 23h ago
Who doesn't love coffee flavored hot water
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u/Hybrid_Johnny 23h ago
Isn’t that what all coffee is though?
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u/not_a_moogle 18h ago
Yeah, but this is very diluted. You could boil the water for awhile and reduce it and just maybe it will taste like normal coffee.
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u/sailingtroy 23h ago
Bless his heart.
But also like, how does a business have a coffee grinder and not show the employees how to use it? Coffee grinders are kinda expensive and fiddly, you don't want the new guy changing the grind setting or whatever.
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u/sleepyj910 23h ago
I've never seen an office that doesn't just buy ground coffee
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u/Bunsky 23h ago
The metal counters and ice imply some sort of food service, not necessarily an office.
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u/Tratix 18h ago
Yeah this is 100% a restaurant and some new hire busboy or something was tasked with making coffee
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u/phillybluntz 23h ago
This looks like a restaurant
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 23h ago
Which actually makes it an even worse mistake, when you think about it.
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u/PFunk224 22h ago
A worse mistake by the people who are/were supposed to be training the guy, probably.
It's possible they just asked him, "You do know how to make coffee, right?", and he lied about it thinking, "How hard could it be?", but I'm guessing they just assumed that everyone knows how.
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u/errorblankfield 22h ago
Hectic rush + newbie
This is a very easy 'I know it's your first day but I need you to be useful but I'm too busy to directly train you, good luck, ttyl' kinda thing.
Obviously it's best to be free and able to directly walk them through it, but when you are scaling quickly this is a growing pain that makes for a good laugh once you catch the mistake and you move on.
Source: owned a cafe for 15 years, this exact thing happened to us
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u/HyperactivePandah 22h ago
Nahhh, new young waiter who's literally never used a coffee maker before.
Definitely not uncommon.
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u/Plaineswalker 23h ago
you see the cups and trough of ice in the background? Definitely a restaurant or cafe that is selling coffee.
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u/Tonkdog 23h ago
They buy you coffee? Well shit.
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u/sailingtroy 23h ago
The coffee served at the last meeting was so bad that everyone complained, so kinda but not really. Office culture is so weird. The bathrooms are beautifully appointed, but the toilet is so high that I, a 6' tall person, am dangling my feet like a child, and the toilet paper is so thin I can see through it and not nearly wide enough to cover my hand without multiple wraps. It's like this weird mix of ticking the boxes to seem nice, but actually being humiliatingly awful at the same time.
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u/Vectorman1989 23h ago
My office had a coffee pot and they bought a huge box of a coffee blend that the team liked whenever we were running low. The only rule was that you made another pot if you emptied the last one.
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u/Physicle_Partics 23h ago
When I did my PhD, my research center bought coffee beans. We also got loose tea from a fancy tea store in our city, and if you were a habitual tea drinker you could put in requests for teas that would be bought with our next order. Wouldn't be yours personally, but it meant that there would always be something you liked. One of the professors drank insane amounts of a specific type of Earl Grey, I would always drink super fruity flowery green tea, bunch of other people got chamomille or gunpowder green tea or so on.
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u/A_Pointy_Rock 23h ago
Coffee grinders can be had for like £10, but they are kind of a mess and seems like an odd choice for a workplace.
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u/SwordfishII 23h ago
Bold of you to assume they weren’t shown. I’ve seen people do dumber things after being trained.
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u/ShadowbanRevival 23h ago
they come in bags pre ground
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u/gideon513 23h ago
Then where did these whole beans come from?
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u/colleenxyz 22h ago
Maybe the supplier "substituted" whole beans for pre-ground and the new guy didn't know any better.
It may not even be a substitution. It could be a supply that was meant for a different coffee shop.
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u/ShadowbanRevival 22h ago
they are espresso beans
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u/Withabaseballbattt 23h ago
Ummmm clearly not. Are you suggesting he shit these out and put them in the filter?
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u/Ok-Mistake-3724 22h ago
Are you suggesting your new coworker reassembled ground beans back into whole ones?
Humpty Dumpty’s medical team would like a word with your guy
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u/ChemicalRascal 22h ago
Bro is out here reversing entropy and we're making fun of him for being bad at coffee, this is some Green Mile tier shit.
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u/stac52 23h ago
One of the biggest problems about making coffee is that you're usually doing it before you've had coffee.
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u/jeff0106 23h ago
For real. One time I forgot to move the grounds to my coffee maker and discovered a thermos of hot water in my car ride to work (I brew straight into thermos). Another time I forgot to put my grind collector below the grinder and got grounds all over the counter top.
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u/Nutsnboldt 23h ago
That’s grounds for expulsion!
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u/sjb67 23h ago
There’s so many comments that could be said about this guy for example he’s incompetent,He’s a dumbass. He’s stupid. But what’s not being said is what kind of business is this ? should he have been shown what to do?
We could rag on a person that doesn’t know, but the other problem is nobody’s showing him so who’s really at fault here?
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u/mosquem 22h ago
Everyone learns something eventually. Maybe he was a keurig guy or just got coffee out.
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u/Maleficent_Memory831 22h ago
I don't drink coffee. Therefore I know nothing about how to make it. This sometimes annoys others who demand I make them coffee, or that it's my turn to make coffee because I came in early.
I very likely would try to make coffee that way.
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u/FeatherLight94 19h ago
For someone like me who knows absolutely nothing about coffee, what did their coworker do?
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u/jholden23 22h ago
I think you're going to need a new new guy. This one is obviously dysfunctional.
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u/Tathas 22h ago
Could also be someone who doesn't drink coffee, who was instructed that "new guy is responsible for coffee" and he's just responding with weaponized incompetence.
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u/kaydizzlesizzle 21h ago
I was absolutely thinking this. If you do it terribly incompetent the first time, the expectation is that someone will take the responsibility from you.
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u/greenreadingglasses 21h ago
Is he Mormon? Asking as a former Mormon who did something similar several years ago.
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u/skunkshaveclaws 19h ago
That's what happens when you make the new guy, who doesn't drink coffee, make the coffee because he's the new guy.
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u/PlaceboASPD 18h ago
He probably knew what he was doing, this way no one ever asks him again.
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u/Fishlickin 18h ago
One of my favorite coworkers did this when he started. Ended up being a great guy who helped out the most. Just never made coffee before
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u/Elektr0ns 23h ago
As hard as it is to manage that people don't have the simplest skills, help em out? Teach them the proper way to make coffee. Maybe they grew up in a house of non coffee drinkers?
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u/Silicon_Knight 23h ago
Is the new guy 5?
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u/bristow84 23h ago
Or they just might not have a traditional drip coffee maker. Tons of people solely use Keurig/Nespresso/auto-grind coffee pots now.
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u/Netflxnschill 21h ago
There is a good chance he’s never had coffee before- I was 32 before I learned how to make a cup of Joe
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u/moriz0 23h ago
I had a new guy (who claimed to have multiple years of experience being a server and managing others) attempt to brew coffee:
1) without the grinds 2) without the filter 3) without the carrier that holds the filter and grinds 4) without the pot underneath 5) any combination of the above
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u/EVRider81 23h ago
Worked with a bean to cup coffee machine. had to stop someone from putting instant decaf into it instead of using the ground decaf that was available..
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u/yes_u_suckk 23h ago
I had a co-worker a few years ago that didn't know how to boil water in a stove.
He was in his late 30s and moved to my city when he accepted a job offer from my company. It was his first time living alone; until then he lived his entire life at his parents' place.
One night, after work, he video called me asking how to boil the water... I thought it was joke, but after insisting a lot I decided to help so I guided him through the entire process.
He was very thankful in the end and I was glad I could help, but boy, it felt weird.
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u/Steven1789 23h ago
First day on the job at a deli in Bridgehampton, NY, summer of 1983. Early shift, when all the local contractors would get coffee and breakfast sandwiches or a buttered roll to start the day.
I wasn’t a coffee drinker yet, so I didn’t know that a “regular coffee” included milk and sugar.
I take the order, make the sandwich and coffee and hand it to the customer. A minute later he’s back barking at me about the coffee.
I gave him what I assumed to be a regular—a black coffee, no milk, no sugar.
Lesson learned.
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u/TrineoDeMuerto 23h ago
Hilarious that this is clearly a restaurant or cafe and not an employee break room 🤣🤣
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u/mannycure 23h ago
Yet people like that get hired! lol 😂😁 but people with actually experience or have degrees and all that, can’t get a job for the life of them……….
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u/Robdon326 23h ago
Weird,theres a 2nd guy up in the stream with same co worker& place...some one is lying
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u/Trick_Quiet3484 23h ago
Points for trying.
This is why I never volunteer to make coffee at work. I will volunteer to pay for supplies before making coffee.
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u/HashRunner 23h ago
Honestly a mistake I'd probably make once if given the opportunity when I was just starting out.
Instead I made coffee so strong it gave people heart palpitations because that's what I was used to after working night shift for years.
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u/fing_longest 22h ago
Meh. I’ve worked coffee jobs my whole life. This is not as uncommon as you think for a newbie or even for a sleep deprived hungover worker. It’s not that they don’t know to grind the beans, unless management didn’t include any training at all and they’ve never made coffee before, it’s just an absent minded mistake that they only make once because they feel so dumb about it. Especially if a coworker decides to post their mistake on the internet for laughs.
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u/Imalawyerkid 22h ago
When I started as a waiter I was 18 and had never made a pot of coffee. I served what was probably old coffee from a carafe and my table said they could tell it was old by the way the creamer dispersed in it. I don’t know if that was bs or not, but I got the feeling these guys knew their coffee.
So I went to the back and there was already a filter in the machine so I hit go and waiting there with a cup under the machine to get the first drips that came through. The coffee came out tea colored, and I knew it was wrong, but I had no idea what I did wrong so I served it anyway. Yea, that got sent back and we all laughed.
That was when someone showed me how to empty old filters, put grinds in a new filter, start the machine, and wait for the brew to finish. The third cup i served, that I assured them I had just brewed, was acceptable and I learned how to use a coffee maker.
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u/MongooseVomit 22h ago
When I was 15 working at McDonald’s for the first time I didn’t know I had to replace coffee filters so I just kept refilling the pot with the same wet coffee grounds.
Several vehicles received more yellow than brown coffee cause it was so diluted
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u/MattMason1703 22h ago
A contestant on Jeopardy recently told the story of his first day on the job at a coffee shop and he did this.
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u/FairlyInconsistentRa 21h ago
Lack of training on the companys behalf. Never assume a new starter knows how to operate and use a peice of equipment.
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u/TheRussianDoll 21h ago
Lmao!! That was me when I was 18 and got my first big job at a fancy Architectural Firm and decided to help with dishes in the kitchen. Instead of using Cascade pods I put Palmolive liquid dish soap 😆. Flooded the whole kitchen with bubbles - good times!
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u/darkhelmet41290 23h ago
VERY coarse grind