Why is it so hard?
As someone who always drip filter, I was confused through most of this post failing to understand it was about coffee. At some point I considered whether it was about bra sizes.
I don’t know, but as I get older I find it more and more silly when I see marketing naming things (wsl still takes the cake). For the record today was the first ever I heard about k cup for coffee or bra.
People are trash.
We have a communal package area for resident and admin packages. Sales will literally open their shit in drop off and leave the open box in the area.
Started breaking them down and leaving them outside their offices. Fuck em.
I’d be such a cunt and leave a k cup on a shitheads desk but how would you know?
My first office 10 years ago had a k-cup machine that emptied the used cup directly into the waste bin under the counter when you went to open it. It also was plumbed directly into the water line and had contracted monthly maintenance service where they would run it through a deep cleaning process.
It seems they don’t make that model anymore, but their commercial products still have an internal bin that the pods are ejected into
Your office has cheaped out and purchased one intended for home use.
Why are offices using k cups? Sounds both extremely wasteful and expensive.
They took our coffee maker away and put one of those Keurig and everyone in my team complained and got real snarky with leadership until we got our old coffee maker back.
So wasteful.
As someone who used to take care of office supplies (I was in accounting, btw) because everyone in the office is lazy and doesn’t wanna deal with complex things like grounds and filters.
Interesting. As a consultant I’ve worked in several different offices, but here in Norway I’ve never seen anything but either filter coffe or automated bean to cup machines. The staff in all those places have also been pretty good at maintaining the machines.
I’m sure there are a fair amount of people that are just inconsiderate. I’d suggest there could be an equally large number of people that simply forgot because they so desperately needed the magical elixir that was just expressed from said machine.
They use k-cups so being inconsiderate is a given.
Honestly in an office situation there is no excuse not to have a super automatic espresso machine. They cost like 1500 dollars and you don’t need to buy the damn kcups.
We have an espresso machine with kcups. Well the Nestle equivalent.
That’s like the worst of ALL worlds.
Right‽
Well, that one I would also put on the employer for not providing a more environmentally friendly/anti-consumption option. But, agree with the sentiment
I’d say it’s both, yeah.
But also user demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.
Is it the used item after a single-use, or the entire bin after several uses?
For the single-use, it actually kind of makes sense not to take it out. There are 2 possibilities when you go to the machine: it either has a used capsule, or it’s empty. If you’re the type of person that wants to throw away the used capsule each time you make a coffee, then you potentially need to throw away 2 capsules each time you make a coffee. Someone else’s when you get there, and your own after making coffee. If you never throw away your own capsule, then you guarantee that you will only ever have to throw away max one capsule when you get to the machine, and so does everyone else after you (assuming they do the same).
And if you murder everyone who leaves the capsule in, eventually the problem completely solves itself!
As for the bin, that’s a diff story, and I guess someone just needs to bite the bullet and empty it.
What is a K cup?
What Keurig calls their disposable 1 time use coffee containers. I also hate them just in principal
I’m not sure that’s a thing in Europe, at least I never heard about that company. I only know these Nestlé trash
you absolutely have nespresso in Europe though
Which is Nestlé, right? ;)
Yeah, my first thought was that we’re talking about a K-size bra cup…
As someone who has never worked in an office, this sentence is so weird to me
it fucking sucks when the pot is empty, so if you kill the joe, you make some mo’
I do see where that would be annoying as hell
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I’m siding with team leave it in.
Take one out, put yours in.
Everybody removes one pod. Fair and balanced as all things should be.
You’re the kind of person who parks all the way on the passenger side of a parking spot, aren’t you?
I said fair and balanced. I center that shit.
But your “fair and balanced” puts all the onus of clean up on the next person. Kind of like how parking far to one side of a parking spot puts all onus of creating enough space for people to get out of their car on the next person.
It’s passing the buck because you can’t be bothered to clean up after yourself.
But you in turn clean up for the person before you. Everybody takes one out, everybody puts one in.
I don’t see where the buck is being passed.
I feel like you’re either looking at this in too small of a scale, or your just REALLY hung up on my pods vs your pods. They’re all the same. I don’t see why you’re too good to toss mine if I’m willing to toss yours.
Also, my machine at home thinks you’re going to make a cup every time you open it, so instead of activating it when you DON’T want coffee, let it continue to think that it’s not coffee time, and when you open it up and remove the last pod, it’s ready to be loaded.
Because common sense and common courtesy is in short supply these days.
