OFFICE COFFEE MAKER

In a lot of offices, everyone gathers around the water cooler. In every office that I have ever worked, everyone gathered around the office coffee maker. In fact the office coffee maker was the source of much controversy in one place that I worked.

Lots of issues were discussed around the office coffee maker, and while the “around the office coffee maker gossip” caused its share of problems, that was not the biggest controversy I experienced. The worst problems caused by the office coffee maker were about the coffee itself.

There was the decaf group. They firmly believed that the only grounds allowed to touch the office coffee maker should be decaffeinated. They were a slow moving group, so even though they held to their beliefs, they didn’t really work very hard to push their arguments and therefore they were overcome by the caffeinated crew. This group believed that the whole office would be much more productive if the office coffee maker gushed coffee laced with caffeine. They were a jittery group. Sometimes it hurt your neck to watch them give a presentation. Of course, with their energy, they won the first round of the office coffee maker wars.