The office homeless …
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
First let me state I am not a coffee drinker so I may be off on this posting.
I had a 9:00 am meeting today. At that meeting someone brought in a “box of joe” from Dunkin’ Donuts. For those of you who don’t know what this is; it is a gallon of coffee in a box.
Six hours later the box sits on the conference room table and the cap for it has been off since 9:00 am. I sit outside the conference room and one co-worker stopped by (6 hours later) and asked if any cups left for the coffee. I said no, he then looked down at my trash basket, leaned over and pushed around remains of my lunch and saw two cups. He then proceeded to examine them to see if they were good enough to drink out of it. Twenty minutes later this exact scene repeated it self only with another co-worker. They didn’t use the cups but why would you even consider this an option?
Few observations:
- It is 6 hours old - break out $1.00 and hit the convenience store which is 1 block from us for a fresh cup. Yes, it costs $1.00 there.
- Is coffee so addictive that you are willing to use a cup that was in the trash to drink it?
- Let me repeat: Are you willing to use a cup that was in the TRASH to drink it?