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Love this but let’s go deeper here. “Tell me about the coffee situation.. what coffee do the team members that drink coffee drink day to day, and where does it
by CoffeeOnWrite 4y ago
Love this but let’s go deeper here. “Tell me about the coffee situation.. what coffee do the team members that drink coffee drink day to day, and where does it come from?”
As a consultant once on a due diligence gig at a medium-sized quasi-tech company in the Midwest, on the day I arrived, one smart and charming QA engineer took me aside and shared “the free coffee in the micro kitchens is crap, here’s our [employee-provided] coffee pot on a filing cabinet in the corner, please drink as much as you want”. That told me, among other things, this was a decent team in a mediocre company..
- donatj 4y agoIt didn't happen to be a midwestern book company with a digital department? Because that sounds a lot like a place I used to work.
- woodrowbarlow 4y agothis is reminiscent of a recent post on Raymond Chen's blog. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=106528 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=10... (spoilers:) during a collab between Microsoft and IBM, Microsoft engineers were frustrated with the coffee at IBM's offices. IBM refused to let them set up their own coffee pot, but IBM was not allowed to look at anything marked "confidential". so they put a cardboard box over the coffee pot and wrote "confidential" on the side.
- CoffeeOnWrite 4y agoHeh, we brewed desktop kombucha under a cardboard box at my big tech co. Facilities staff were very kind to us when it exploded during the Covid lockdowns..