I’ve worked places where some folks would drink the last cup and not bother making a new pot. It’s rather frustrating. But I must share this bit of info about where I work now.
I just walked by the breakroom. The President/CEO was filling the drip basket with coffee grinds to make a new pot. The company’s paralegal was standing by waiting with coffee mug in hand as he did this.
How’s that for a egalitarian workplace?
Our security guard has taken it upon himself to mind the coffee pot, and fiddle with the thermostat.
People can come and go as they please, but dammit, we’re warm and full of coffee.
Our former department chairperson used to keep cleaning supplies and a small set of tools in his office just in case something needed cleaning or fixing. Why wait for the cleaning or maintenance folks to do something when you can do it right away yourself?
I almost tripped over him one day when I came out of my office and he was cleaning a spot off the rug right around the corner.
Not making a new pot is very nearly worse than not replacing the toilet tissue roll, IMO. The heathens!
I like the ones who are courteous enough to turn off the coffee maker, so that the dregs don’t burn, rather than make another pot. “Oh, it’s 8:00 already, no one else must want any coffee…”
:rolleyes:
I didn’t want to talk about those people, Jean Grey. No, that way lies the Pit.
We have our choice here of sludge from the machine or $2.00 Starburnt from the cafeteria. 
My husband worked for the same company as I did for a while. He always makes me coffee at hme so he asked to get me a cup at work. I told him that I did not care to drink the sludge they had. He investigated and found that bits of the coffee pot that I thought were black, were actually shiny silver. He cleaned that thing until it sparkled and ran vinegar through it a coulpe times as well. After a good rinse he made me a cup of coffe that was actually dinkable. From then on he would make me a cup of coffee in the morning, making the whole pot if need be.
I always found a way to keep a separate pot in my office, or at least arrive a little early to make a half pot of my own and put it into a thermos. I’d tell people it was decaf and they wouldn’t argue that I did this.
You hire birds?
My boss has taken to doing the dishes each day, it is very strange but makes a nice change.
What really gets me is that our cleaners never put a spare roll of toilet paper in the cubicle, they leave the spare toilet paper out next to the sink. So if you run out of toilet paper in the cubicle you have to go out to the sink to get another roll. Each day I take a spare roll and put it in the cubicle and the cleaner takes it back out again in the evenings and puts it next to the sink. I even wrote a note once but got no reply.
The other personnel in my Army unit(Korea, 1976-7) were mostly guys. Now women may hate to be the ones expected to make the coffee, but after I saw how the men did it, I volunteered to do so, if some were needed. They rarely cleaned the pot, dumping out the olds grounds and putting in more without even rinsing the basket. :eek:
I would rinse and clean the basket before adding more coffee grounds. And I would thoroughly rinse and clean the pot itself, before adding fresh water. It got so that folks would ask whether or not I had made the current pot, before taking a cup.
Of course that didn’t embarrass the guys into doing a better job, but at least our coffee was drinkable and more or less fresh.
Actually, I thought this was the pit, until I left the thread. 
You cleaned the pot before every new batch? But, but, that’s where the TASTE is! Alright, I will admit to washing my coffee pot out once every three months, if it needs it or not, but that is more a concession to my wife, and she doesn’t even drink it, she just has a clean fetish.
Next thing, someone will be along to say they wash their coffee mug once a week! 
Make a NEW pot? Out of the 20 people in my office, roughly half drink coffee. Out of those ten , only two of us EVER make coffee. The other eight will wait until one of us comes in and makes it. These are the same people that step right over the newspaper instead of picking it up and bringing it inside , and the same folks that don’t turn the lights in the office on (except for their own office light) . :wally
My coworkers (and myself) are good about making coffee, but apparantly there is noone responsible for actually cleaning our work area. A lady comes by daily to empty the trash, mop the floor, and clean the sink, but noone ever clean the counters (we share several huge counters instead of having desks), dust the window ledges, degoopify the phones, etc. I did it for a while until a dust bunny behind one of the comptuers pulled a knife on me.
I still do clean the area when I have time, but there are dust balls hanging off the walls in some places.
The strange this is that this is in a hospital!