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Stupid things I've seen: * Server space. We had a shared server where, for some reason, /home had been placed on a tiny partition. Someone must have thought
by georgieporgie 15y ago
Stupid things I've seen:
* Server space. We had a shared server where, for some reason, /home had been placed on a tiny partition. Someone must have thought this would encourage responsible use of space, but in practice it just prevented real work from getting done. It was a 2000's solution to a 1990's problem.
* Coffee. It's extremely valuable to have one or two varieties of coffee on hand, hot and fresh at all times. Assign someone this task. We had infighting over pots left empty, and angst over cold left-over coffee in the morning. All because the office manager thought it was beneath her to make coffee.
* Books. I have never worked at a company that had a book allowance. When asked, I was told it just wasn't in the budget. Meanwhile, I've been sent, along with coworkers, to awful, multi-day conferences for "training" (it wasn't training, it was a conference).
- tptacek 15y agoAnother way around the coffee problem is just to set up an infrastructure for single-cup brewing, either with a bunch of pourovers or with Aeropress's (they're like $20 each). We (unfortunately) also have a Keurig.
- georgieporgie 15y agoBut then you end up with coffee queues before meetings, people who don't clean the machine when they're done, and (in the case of the Keurig) tons of noise.
- wglb 15y agoMeetings?
- tptacek 15y agoIt takes like a minute or two to do a pourover cup or an Aeropress cup, and if you're bottlenecking on that, just buy multiple pourovers and Aeropresses; they're cheap.
- chc 15y agoAeropresses are awesome. They actually make better coffee than most coffee makers, it's always fresh, it's plenty fast and cleanup is a snap. I highly recommend it for anybody who's put off by the annoyance of normal coffee makers.
- tptacek 15y agoThey burn through a _lot_ of coffee, which might be a downside.
- chc 15y agoWeird, I hadn't really noticed that. How many scoops do you use for a cup of coffee? I usually put one scoop (or two if I'm feeling tired), and I don't find I go through coffee noticeably faster than with a coffee machine.