Day 2 and "there is still no fuc*ing coffee in this building!!"

[TZ]

To quote a cranky coworker.
The coffee junkies going beserk with our boil water alert..no coffee to be found anywhere in this large building..except a few of the Starbucks flavored chilled coffees..I heard someone bought one and zapped it in the microwave to get something..Lots of irritable people around here...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Bottled water and a French Press?

Desperate times require ...

Coffee is not rocket science.

:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. How can there be no coffee?!?

That must be hell.

We have Starbucks in the cafeteria. I also have a little bowl of chocolate-covered espresso beans at my desk. These things are necessary to keep me alive. I would fall in a dispirited heap if I couldn't get coffee.

I don't know how you are managing.

[TZ]

3. I actually miss my morning tea

More than anything else...but I don't think it was a coincidence that the meeting I attended yesterday was crankier than normal.

[mikeytherat]

4. And no one brings it in from home?

Wow. I'd much rather haul in my travel mug full of joe than drink the burnt, brown swill that passes for "coffee" at most workplaces.

mikey_the_rat

[TZ]

5. people here like the high test coffee in the breakrooms....

but also there is a full selection of Starbucks in the cafe..so people here are spoiled...

[hobbit709]

6. You'd think the coffee maker gets the water hot enough.

[madinmaryland]

7. You're still without water??

:wow:

[TZ]

8. oh we have water

For the cooling systems and the restrooms. We are just not allowed to drink it or use it for food prep.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Your post sounds remarkably like a prisoner's journal.

Day 29: They boiled Johnson's socks and called it coffee. They're not fooling anyone.

[Chan790]

10. Day 30:

"I awoke to discover my socks were missing today. Bastards! Johnson is still dispirited and a riot broke out when somebody discovered that Jones was holding-out on us all with a tea-bag which some flavor could be extracted from by sucking on."

[redqueen]

11. No admins have run out to get a few bottles of drinking water?

Someone has an opportunity to be a real hero here...

[TZ]

12. Oh no shortage of drinking water...

You can buy bottled water/soda/juice from the cafe downstairs.
There are like 1200 people here. I think that would be awfully hard work for someone...:D

[redqueen]

13. So the coffee machines are hooked up to the water lines... ?

Quick, someone go get a Mr Coffee!

[Chan790]

15. Bottled water works in the coffee pot...

just saying. It's all I use to make coffee, in fact. Tap water too much crap in it.

[Pierre.Suave]

21. Get a filter pitcher

It is a bit easier, less waste, etc...

[Chan790]

25. I refill the bottles at work...

from the filtration system.

[Pierre.Suave]

26. I see

what happens at home when you run out?

[CreekDog]

28. tap water is often better than bottled water

:spank:

except in the obvious case near Turtlensue.

[Pierre.Suave]

14. Just consider this an opportunity

to get over your caffeine addiction.

:rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. That's crazy talk!

[Pierre.Suave]

18. be careful what you say...

I do not allow caffeinated drinks in my media room...

:P

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Hear that guys? Let's get 'im!

You will imbibe Johnson's socks concoction and you shall enjoy it.

[Pierre.Suave]

24. Yeah

well I just told Johnson your plan and he isnt happy...

He wore his lucky "date night socks" today...

:P

[TZ]

17. Me? I'm not an addict...

Its the others around me who are..including my boss who was ummm waaay more grumpy than normal YESTERDAY....:scared:

[Pierre.Suave]

19. Oh, that is easy to solve

Go to Costco and get a ginormous bag of chocolate covered espresso beans. They get caffeine, you get a raise. WIN-WIN!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. I can understand why there is not.

I'm thinking that would burn and be something of a health hazard, don't you think?

[Pierre.Suave]

23. That is a possibility

good thinking. I had not considered that.

[CreekDog]

27. i take it that "instant coffee" is not a suggestion that would be received well

:hide: :rofl:

[TZ]

29. yeah probably not.

I've kinda gotten spoiled with my caramel lattes myself....

[Beer Snob-50]

30. i got some left over iced coffee in the fridge here

that i brought from home if you want it.