Why is it so hard?
Why are offices using k cups? Sounds both extremely wasteful and expensive.
People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it"
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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alehel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
alehel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Ours orders the bags that are filters. Like big teabags.
nthavoc@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Because depending the culture of your employees, the pot never gets emptied, grows mold, and filters get reused for that unique taste. No matter how many beatings are given to employees, they will continue these bad habits even when you terminate half your staff for this. In fact, some pride themselves of drinking out of a pot that has a disgusting mountain of old grinds at the bottom of it.
Instead of spending the time to constantly deal with this, the incontinence is now they didn’t throw the cup away or it’s empty. Production is up again and moral is improved by 2%.
alehel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Just didn’t really occur to me that this is an issue. The offices I’ve worked in here in Norway, most people just do their part to keep the coffee machines orderly and clean. We had mold once when we forgot to empty the filter before the Christmas holiday, but first person in the office emptied it, cleaned the filter holder, left it in a mix of water and vinegar to kill whatever was left, and a couple of hours later (9 o’clock ish) we were brewing coffee again.
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
I still don’t understand why people love K cups so much. They make the coffee taste like plastic. I can’t stand them.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They taste like cheap instant coffee
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I vote for the murder option. People need to start conducting themselves better. We live in a society. Same goes for the ones leaving their cart out in the lot.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What is a K cup?
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What Keurig calls their disposable 1 time use coffee containers. I also hate them just in principal
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure that’s a thing in Europe, at least I never heard about that company. I only know these Nestlé trash
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yeah, my first thought was that we’re talking about a K-size bra cup…
iamnotafishuq@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They use k cups so being inconsiderate is a given.
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
iamnotafishuq@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone who has never worked in an office, this sentence is so weird to me
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it fucking sucks when the pot is empty, so if you kill the joe, you make some mo’
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do see where that would be annoying as hell
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People are trash.
We have a communal package area for resident and admin packages. Sales will literally open there 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
philpo@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I simply fire them if they do that.
The problem is that I work in Home Office exclusively…
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re the kind of person who parks all the way on the passenger side of a parking spot, aren’t you?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I said fair and balanced. I center that shit.
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Out of the 3 people in my apartment, I am the only one who ever removes the empty things from the machine. I always remove mine when I am done, and I always have to remove someone else’s before I start. 😬
Jerb322@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because common sense and common courtesy is in short supply these days.
bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Their way is optimal. If you remove the old k cup while putting in the next k cup, you open and close the machine half as many times. This reduces wear and tear while forcibly obligating each user to remove exactly one k cup per use.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Take your cup out and leave the lid open so it has a chance to properly dry and doesn’t accidentally a mildew situation
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I’m so glad I don’t drink coffee…
Mjam, leave it in there for the weekend to ripen!
I remember a seldom used office coffee machine that everyone complained made the coffee taste “funny”, they got the message about the necessary cleaning after maggots started crawling out. 🤢🤮
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Mhhh…Protein :p
foggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also, the k cup is slightly hot immediately after use.
It won’t burn you but it can be unpleasant.
r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have the same policy with public toilets. If you flush at the start to verify that it’s working and flush at the end then it’s double the flushes. That’s why I only flush at the start. All my coworkers complain, but they’re not concerned with the environment like me! So wasteful!