Thursday 4 August 2005

Colleagues who coffee. AKA idiosyncrasies: Good, bad or fucking annoying?

A situation has arisen at work that might need nipping in the bud before I go Joe Pesci on somebody.

A question
Suppose you offer to make a colleague a cup of coffee and you ask them how they take it. If their response is: 2 spoons of coffee, 2 sugars, white. Do you:

a) make the coffee according to the information provided by the "user", or
b) assume the person was mistaken with their preference and make the requested drink with one spoon of coffee?


Another question
When making the brew, assuming you're following the "milk in last" protocol, do you stir the hot drink:

a) before, or
b) after adding the milk?


A final question
When taking a mug from sacred mug cupboard - where mugs are hidden so as not to get them mixed up with skanky mugs in the kitchen - to make a single hot drink, do you

a) take one of the mugs and make drink, or
b) take both spotlessly clean mugs into the kitchen, make brew in one, wash the other and leave it with skanky mugs on the draining board?

Bee-fookin-zarre.

I was starving at work this morning and I found this:


Imagine my disappointment when I turned it over:


Damn! And it looked such a tasty snack, too. It's like putting a warning on a breeze block: "do not eat". Fuck's sake!

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