Who makes the coffee at your office?--Vent

[NMAmy]

Okay, let me start out by saying that I hate coffee. Yes, I admit it, I'm a weirdo.

We have a coffee pot at work--I will start the first pot in the morning because I'm the first one in. After that, you're on your own. I get a lot of co-workers who will come to tell me, "Hey, the coffee pot is empty." Really? I then show them where the supplies are so they can make their own or have a student employee show them. This is not some fancy, schmancy coffee pot that you'd need instructions--it's a regular Mr. Coffee kind like you'd have at home.

I get annoyed enough about having to nag them about paying for the coffee, balancing the coffee fund, and buying the supplies.

Then one of my co-workers decided the pot wasn't getting clean enough and I should take it home once a week and run it through the dishwasher. This is a guy that works FOR me. I told him if he wanted that clean, he could take it home himself.

If I had my way, I'd get rid of the pot and they could all go down one flight of stairs to the cafeteria. No one sits around waiting to prepare a diet coke for me in the morning nor would I expect them to.

This is the first office I've worked in where this kind of thing happens. What's your office like?

 

[musclecar_72]

The secretary should make the coffee, and deliver along with the morning paper and a smile!

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Usually it's whoever takes the last of what is in the pot (no matter the position in the organization). There is one guy though that will take the last and just leave the empty pot, even if someone else is standing there.

I first blamed all the men, but that's not true. Even our Executive Director has been known to make a pot of coffee.

 

[lindakmonty]

I hate coffee too. I drink Mt. Dew myself. I am the only female and there are about 50 guys in and out of here but about 10 of us that work ft in the office only. There is a coffee pot but it rarely gets used. They'll tell me to make some coffee and I tell them to make it themself! I don't drink it, I'm not going to make it. They do joke and say ... this place needs swept... so I tell them to sweep it... just b/c I'm a female doesn't mean that the vac fits my hand any better than theirs!

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

There is no coffee maker here. I grab a coffee at Dunkin' Donuts on the way into the office.

But at my previous job, I made the coffee first thing in the morning and whoever emptied the pot out (usually my supervisor) would make another pot. Occasionally, they would ask me to make another pot and I would oblige, since it didn't happen very often and only when they were very busy.

 

[Chicago526]

We have comercial coffee makers at all our break stations, the kind that use a hot water line to make the coffee. You just dump the pre-messured coffee grounds into a filter, put it in the machine and press a button. Voila, hot bad tasting coffee! Most people are pretty good at starting a fresh pot when the take the last of it. I'm not sure who cleans the pots out, though. I don't drink the free coffee, I but a cup of the gormet stuff from the cafeteria. I'd rather pay $1 for a cup of GOOD coffee than drink bad coffee for free!

 

[TerriP]

The secretary should make the coffee, and deliver along with the morning paper and a smile!

That would be your mommy, not your secretary.

I am a secretary, but I don't drink coffee, so why would I make it? In our office, the coffee drinkers make the coffee, drink the coffee, and wash the coffee pots. I drink Diet Coke...I buy the DC, drink the DC, and hound the vending machine guy when we run out.

 

[PghLybrt]

Okay, let me start out by saying that I hate coffee. Yes, I admit it, I'm a weirdo.

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I am a weirdo too then! I hate coffee (when I smell it at home I think one of the dogs got sick!) but I also hate chocolate and peanut butter!

Anyway at work we use the theory of who ever finished it makes it and the people that drink it are the ones that take care of keeping it clean ect .
I have no part if it!

 

[kelleigh1]

I'm another non-coffee drinker.

Our receptionist usually makes the first pots (yes, plural - our machine holds 3 pots, so they usually make reg, decaf and flavored) of the day. Then once those are empty, it's up to whoever wants some. Nobody makes a new pot if they empty it because many times it will just go to waste. Sometimes our HR director will make an afternoon pot.

We also have one of those single cup makers with various coffees and teas, so anyone who wants can make a single cup for themselves with that.

 

[SC Minnie]

I don't drink coffee and have never made a pot in my life. Around here if you take the last cup you make another pot otherwise the grinch will take it all away again.

Our office supplies juice, coke, and diet coke. If the stock in the fridge is getting low when I get me DC I will fill it up or at least put a few 6 pks in.

 

[AllyandJack]

We have one of those K Cup things. So, you make your own individual cup. It also makes tea.

When I was working for free at this small firm in college, the senior partner was a bear about his coffee. People would actually watch for his head to show up in the window and run (I mean RUN) to turn the pot on so the coffee was fresh when he walked in. Once, his secretary didn't get his coffee to him fast enough and he was yelling, "Coffee, coffee, coffee!!!" I don't drink coffee. Further, I don't know how to make it. I did, however, manage to blow up quite a few pots because I forgot to take them off at night. Oh well.

 

[laurajetter]

Another weirdo checking in... I hate coffee (although I love the smell of it!) and have never made a pot in my life, nor would I know how. So you don't drink the coffee but are making it for other people? Why aren't they making their own darn coffee? If someone at my work told me I should start a pot of coffee when I got to work because I was there first I would just

At my work there is one person who HAS to have her coffee in the morning so she is always the one in the kitchen getting it ready.

Laura

 

[Beth76]

I don't work in an office, so I'm not speaking from experience. I don't get why are you "in charge" of the coffee? Since you don't drink it, I would just stop doing anything with the coffee. It's very considerate of you to make the first coffee for everyone else, but if they are bothering you it's time to turn the job over to someone who actually drinks it.

 

[brerrabbit]

We just got the coolest machine at work for our coffe. It makes it one cup at a time. You can also make hot tea, hot chocolate and cappacino. If you want cappacino you push a button and a little door opens and you insert a little foil pack thats labelled creamy topping. Shut the door and the machine injects boiling water into the pouch. cuts the bottom off the pouch and then steams the topping into your cup. Then the door opens and you put whatever flavor coffe you want in. I use the expresso blend for a real tasting cappacino. It injects boiling water into the pouch and then after a few seconds cuts the bottom off the pouch. Inside is a filter that hold the grounds and lets the coffee flow through. It injects the coffee as a stream through the topping and presto. instant cappacino. It actually tastes pretty darn good.

 

[jbdreamer]

I don't understand. If you don't like coffee, then why are you even making it? I'd leave the coffee pot to the coffee drinkers. The only reason people are nagging you about the coffee pot is because you make it your bussiness. Let the coffee drinkers deal with stocking up on supplies, if you don't drink coffee then it's not your concern.

At our office the rule is if you take the last cup, you make a new pot.

 

[paigevz]

Weird. Why did you get stuck with it all if you don't even drink it? At my school, the first COFFEE DRINKER there makes the first pot, and then as someone empties a pot the next one is made by them. There is a can nearby. The coffee drinkers are supposed to either bring a can of coffee once a month or put a quarter in the can for every cup. The quarters are used mostly for filters, sweeteners and creamers.........

I don't know who makes sure the last pot is emptied and cleaned.

 

[kimmikayb]

I make the coffee. I tell the ignorant, slobby pigs who work with me everyday how they CAN'T drink my coffee because I drive to buy the coffee, I make the coffee, I clean up after the coffee. I'm like the little red hen. They have the NERVE to drink it after I tell them no...using up my supplies like they OWN the business. Oh wait, they do. I work with my husband and father And I drink more of the tar then they do, so I guess it's ok they have a little

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

I love the mad rush right before a morning meeting...where everyone gets the coffee and of course they are too rushed to stop and make another pot.

I too use the "make-a-single-cup" machine down the hall. It is a war zone near the coffee machine.

 

[SandraVB79]

We have a coffee machine, and every morning, someone from the coffee machine company comes to take care of the machine, just like the Coke guy.

Too bad none of both look as good as the guy from the Diet Coke commercial a few years back

Btw, you're not weird, I don't drink coffee either.

 

[NMAmy]

I'm glad to see so many people feel the same way I do!

I fell into being the Queen of the Coffee fund because I'm the Queen of what we call the "Social Fund." With budget cuts, we have a fund that's used to cover things like birthday/sympathy/get well cards, flowers for a death in the family, food for meetings. A couple of times a year, I send out a call for money and people donate as much or as little as they'd like. I just add the coffee money into the pool. I do go get this stuff during office hours usually but if we need filters or something, I pick them up on the weekend when I'm doing my grocery shopping. During the regular school year, lots of people will drop off cans of coffee, creamer, etc.

I have a student employee get the pot already the night before and put the water in the fridge. I just empty the water in and push the button in the morning so it's not a big deal to make that first pot.

I think it was someone who works FOR me thinking I ought to take the pot home to clean it that just pushed me over the edge. And he was pretty offended when I told him to do it himself. Just because I'm a woman does not make me in charge of dishwashing.

Thanks for all the replies--I've never worked somewhere that coworkers expected me to hop up and make their coffee for them. And I worked for the president of a college in New Mexico. He'd go to the cafeteria and get his own.