Basically if I can do my coffee without impairing the service I am giving to my callers they “look the other way” when it comes to having my coffee at my desk. I am “afraid” that if I have to shake or rotate a grinder that the manager will feel that I am now taking my attention away and require that I not have the maker at my desk.
It takes me 20 seconds now to put a k-cup in my maker or dump grinds to make a pot into the filter if I am making a pot. I have 23 seconds between calls if there is a call waiting so there is no impairment there.
Although with the sound of the grinder it may be too loud so I may have to use in it in the kitchen restrict the use to my break and lunch which makes my opposition to the oval moot.
Okay, I can’t help but feel you’ve rendered your original inquiry moot. None of these special conditions are in your original post and they’ve been introduced in bits as you answer each suggestion.
If you answer phones in a cubicle farm and want to have a continuous supply of coffee, the exact model of grinder is one of your lesser problems. I don’t know of any that are quiet enough to run in a boiler room/cubicle farm kind of environment, and I am not sure how you plan to make a pot of fresh-grind coffee 22 seconds at a time. Water? Dealing with the filter and grounds? Washing out the pot and filter cone?
If you can take a couple minutes of a break to do all this, you can carry a carafe with 10-12 cups back to your workstation and need no particularly special accommodations. But if you’re truly restricted to sitting there, without breaks, and wanting a continuous supply of coffee, I don’t see how anything but a Keurig with a large reservoir is going to serve your needs.
The type of grinder in this situation is, entirely IMHO, irrelevant. Maybe a clearer question would help next time.