No shit. I wonder what percentage of iatrogenic fatalities can be directly attributed to decaffeinated coffee.
Do you have a locker where you can lock things up when you’re off shift? If so, I highly recommend one of these. You can make a single cup anytime you like, and the selection of coffees is wide and deep. I think Sears carries these for about $120. I had one in my office and loved it.
The link doesn’t go where it should, but the model I’m referring to is the B40.
Keep in mind that because you work in a hospital, you’ll probably need to have the device inspected by the maintenance people and approved for use. I know that’s the rule in the three hospitals I’ve worked at, anyway. If we wanted to use a radio or a coffeepot or anything at all that we brought from home, we had to have it checked and labeled as “approved” before we were allowed to. That said, i’ve never seen them refuse one… but still.
Are we still allowed to say ‘band name’? Because Vociferous Cuntrockets…
(I don’t play well with others and/or make funny gurgling noises in class if I haven’t had breakfast. No coffee for me, though.)
I’m basically immune to coffee no matter what the strength, but espresso…
I got a large latte every monring from Dunkin during one workweek; that Friday I was up for 24 hours.
“Lollygagging fuckwranglers”? “Cuntrockets”? I LOVE it! 
I am going to have to remember those. I know a few people who fit those descriptions nicely.
When **Mr. Storm ** worked nights, he had a similar complaint whereby the good coffee was brewed and all gone by the time he got to the breakroom. I’d get up at about 11:30 and would brew strong, tasty gourmet coffee for him and pour coffee into two huge thermal - type thermoses, the ones with the sliding cap that you can drink straight from. I’d pack some little creamers and sugar packets, and he was good to go.
Then he got off coffee and started drinking these energy drinks, like the Red Bull and Monster stuff. :rolleyes:
This thread almost made me cry. No one should ever, ever be deprived of their inalienable right to caffeinated coffee. Cuntrockets indeed!
I would like to add my vote for a really good thermos, they can keep stuff hot for quite some time and you won’t have to waste any of your precious 30 minute break brewing or dealing with the vociferous cuntrockets.
Besides the aforementioned caffeinated beverages and mints, might I heartily recommend chocolate covered espresso beans? Caribou Coffee sells them as Reindeer Nibblers ™. One box of those babies will wake you right up. I made the mistake of eating two boxes in a row while drinking Monster. My friend said he could almost see me vibrating.
Ma’am, I’m impressed with your OP.
Not having caffeine available for night-shift people oughta be against the law, durnit. I can’t have coffee but when I worked nights you would have pried my can of soda from my cold dead fingers. Even with Spanish-strength coffee available, by the third or fourth night of any week most people in third shift looked like extras in a zombies movie. Instead of coming into the lab with a sample in each hand and a third tucked under his armpit, the samples guy from production would bring in one at a time, grabbed in both hands, not taking his eyes from it, and do a short of forward shuffle rather than lift his feet.
Only if they know about it. Yes, I admit, engineering doesn’t know about my cell phone charger or my iPod dock. (Of course, a coffee machine is conceivably dangerous.)
I’ll have to check to make sure, but I’m pretty sure that depriving the nightshift of caffeinated coffee violates the Geneva Conventions. Or anyone at all for that matter.
It’s certainly an excellent case for crimes against humanity if you wanted to take it to the world court.
I need coffee.
I also need pussy.
Everything in its time and place.
I know you said it’s freezing cold in your department, so you like a hot drink, but perhaps you could also try bringing a couple of bottles of those Starbucks Frappucino drinks. I’ve found the caffeine content in those puppies is enough to have me shaking for a week.
Also, you might try phoning over to the cafeteria about 10 minutes before you’re going to head down that way, and ask them to start a fresh pot of brew for you, then tip them when you get there. I bet you always have fresh coffee then!
I’ve had the frappuccino drinks before, but there’s so much sugar in them. I generally fall back on those when I can’t get anything else.
I’ve tried phoning the cafeteria, but most of the time they don’t pick up. They understaff them so terribly on the night shift, that generally I’m understanding when they don’t have coffee. When they’re standing around screwing around, though, and the coffee pots are empty, I get cranky.
Yeah, but **cafeteria ** pussy?
Eeeeeew. It’d be all soggy and cold.
When you’ve been here as long as some of the rest of us, you’ll have learned that **Beware of Doug ** will take his pussy wherever he can find it.
I’ve never actually tried those beans, though I’ve been tempted to. The thought of chomping on the beans sort of turned me off, but maybe I’ll give it a shot.
Thank you!
Oh my. I know the shuffle well. I’ve been there a lot, lately.
Yerba Matte. loads of caffiene, brews like tea…all you need is hot water. It will light you up…does well over ice too… I have all the king hell high powered coffee equipment in the world, and when I need to stay up I brew matte…or, we have this milkshake with 8 shots of espresso we sell, but thats another story…
:eek: I must seek out this magical beverage.