No descaler this morning ... though looking at the size of the lumps of limescale that I'm picking out of my teeth, I might go and add some to the next cup.
The coffee here sucks SO MUCH. It's not even free. I pay 3 pounds a month for the privilege of topping up the toxins every few minutes with Nestlé's cheapest excuse for coffee. Liberal spoonfuls of sugar do, however, help the medicine go down.
I keep meaning to buy my own and bring it in... maybe tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow.
I've heard a lot of people saying this; their place of work used to have decent coffee available and is now going for Nestlé RatShit Blend, or close equivalent. Cost-cutting, I guess.
Last place I worked which had coffee-making facilities other than in the form of caffeine_fairy had a machine which dispensed what was allegedly Gold Blend. Good gods, it was unpleasant. The other alternatives were soup (invariably foul and watery), hot chocolate (invariably watery but often the best of a bad bunch), what passed for tea in the Heart of Gold vending machine sense (before Arthur Dent gave it a good talking to), or whatever you brought in for yourself. I seem to recall I drank a reasonable amount of fruit tea; I may have been on one of my irregular attempts to drink less caffeine...
I don't think we ever had decent coffee. I asked if they could buy FairTrade coffee instead of Mud Blend, and was told "no, it's too expensive".
I should have protested more, but I didn't. There doesn't seem much point now, as we're moving office in a month, and there will be different coffee facilities there.
I think I like where I work. We get free just about drinkable coffee, nice hot chocolate and vile tea from machines; but we also have a terrace cafe downstairs which do lattes and cappucinos and espressos and various good teas, mostly fair trade. Hmm I shouldn't brag should I? (The danish pastries are to die for.)
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Date: 2004-09-08 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-08 01:43 am (UTC)The coffee here sucks SO MUCH. It's not even free. I pay 3 pounds a month for the privilege of topping up the toxins every few minutes with Nestlé's cheapest excuse for coffee. Liberal spoonfuls of sugar do, however, help the medicine go down.
I keep meaning to buy my own and bring it in... maybe tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow.
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Date: 2004-09-08 01:49 am (UTC)Last place I worked which had coffee-making facilities other than in the form of
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Date: 2004-09-08 03:54 am (UTC)I should have protested more, but I didn't. There doesn't seem much point now, as we're moving office in a month, and there will be different coffee facilities there.
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Date: 2004-09-08 10:36 am (UTC)