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People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] fishpen0@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

My first office 10 years ago had a k-cup machine that emptied the used cup directly into the waste bin under the counter when you went to open it. It also was plumbed directly into the water line and had contracted monthly maintenance service where they would run it through a deep cleaning process.

It seems they don’t make that model anymore, but their commercial products still have an internal bin that the pods are ejected into

Your office has cheaped out and purchased one intended for home use.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 3 points 12 hours ago

I simply fire them if they do that.

The problem is that I work in Home Office exclusively....

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why are offices using k cups? Sounds both extremely wasteful and expensive.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Because depending the culture of your employees, the pot never gets emptied, grows mold, and filters get reused for that unique taste. No matter how many beatings are given to employees, they will continue these bad habits even when you terminate half your staff for this. In fact, some pride themselves of drinking out of a pot that has a disgusting mountain of old grinds at the bottom of it.

Instead of spending the time to constantly deal with this, the inconvenience is now they didn't throw the cup away or it's empty. Production is up again and moral is improved by 2%.

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Just didn't really occur to me that this is an issue. The offices I've worked in here in Norway, most people just do their part to keep the coffee machines orderly and clean. We had mold once when we forgot to empty the filter before the Christmas holiday, but first person in the office emptied it, cleaned the filter holder, left it in a mix of water and vinegar to kill whatever was left, and a couple of hours later (9 o'clock ish) we were brewing coffee again.

[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

They took our coffee maker away and put one of those Keurig and everyone in my team complained and got real snarky with leadership until we got our old coffee maker back.

So wasteful.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone who used to take care of office supplies (I was in accounting, btw) because everyone in the office is lazy and doesn't wanna deal with complex things like grounds and filters.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Ours orders the bags that are filters. Like big teabags.

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Interesting. As a consultant I've worked in several different offices, but here in Norway I've never seen anything but either filter coffe or automated bean to cup machines. The staff in all those places have also been pretty good at maintaining the machines.

[–] bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Their way is optimal. If you remove the old k cup while putting in the next k cup, you open and close the machine half as many times. This reduces wear and tear while forcibly obligating each user to remove exactly one k cup per use.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Take your cup out and leave the lid open so it has a chance to properly dry and doesn't accidentally a mildew situation

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm so glad I don't drink coffee...

Mjam, leave it in there for the weekend to ripen!

I remember a seldom used office coffee machine that everyone complained made the coffee taste "funny", they got the message about the necessary cleaning after maggots started crawling out. 🤢🤮

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

Mhhh...Protein :p

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Also, the k cup is slightly hot immediately after use.

It won't burn you but it can be unpleasant.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have the same policy with public toilets. If you flush at the start to verify that it's working and flush at the end then it's double the flushes. That's why I only flush at the start. All my coworkers complain, but they're not concerned with the environment like me! So wasteful!

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I still don’t understand why people love K cups so much. They make the coffee taste like plastic. I can’t stand them.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

They taste like cheap instant coffee

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

even the inventor was taken back by the waste of it all. Him and the guy who started bitcoin I think are the inventors with the most regrets.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

the guy who started bitcoin

Who's that?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Its unclear. There is a japanese name associated with it but its assumed I believe that its not the persons actual name.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago

Why would they have regrets?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The waste, while unnecessary, is negligible. Go buy a drink, any plastic drink from anywhere, and you wasted more plastic than a K-cup.

Pro tip: Rip the top off, rinse it out, fill with dirt, perfect seed starter pod. Even has a drain hole pre-drilled. Also, chunk the coffee in your yard, garden, compost, whatever.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

I would not say negligable. I mean there is a reason reusable bottles have become a thing and for a big cofee drinker at work that can be like a dozen k-cups.

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think that prize still goes to Alfred Nobel

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

This is the guy with the most regrets. He put lead into gasoline and is responsible for CfC coolants that depleted the ozone layer. He also developed a device to grant him a greater degree of mobility when bedridden which unintentionally killed him.

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

While I agree he had a massive negative impact on the world, I don’t read any remorse in that biography, instead even after he personally got sick from lead poisoning and recovered, he still pushed for leaded gas. He just sucks

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was dynamite right. Honestly I don't see him as having as much regrets. As sucky as the war usages were it still helped in building and mining and such.

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

He literally regretted his invention so badly he founded the Nobel prize

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it the used item after a single-use, or the entire bin after several uses?

For the single-use, it actually kind of makes sense not to take it out. There are 2 possibilities when you go to the machine: it either has a used capsule, or it's empty. If you're the type of person that wants to throw away the used capsule each time you make a coffee, then you potentially need to throw away 2 capsules each time you make a coffee. Someone else's when you get there, and your own after making coffee. If you never throw away your own capsule, then you guarantee that you will only ever have to throw away max one capsule when you get to the machine, and so does everyone else after you (assuming they do the same).

And if you murder everyone who leaves the capsule in, eventually the problem completely solves itself!

As for the bin, that's a diff story, and I guess someone just needs to bite the bullet and empty it.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago

I vote for the murder option. People need to start conducting themselves better. We live in a society. Same goes for the ones leaving their cart out in the lot.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is a K cup?

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What Keurig calls their disposable 1 time use coffee containers. I also hate them just in principal

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that's a thing in Europe, at least I never heard about that company. I only know these Nestlé trash

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you absolutely have nespresso in Europe though

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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As someone who has never worked in an office, this sentence is so weird to me

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it fucking sucks when the pot is empty, so if you kill the joe, you make some mo'

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