fifth<\/a>, European Blend, but it never quite caught on …<\/p>\nSo, that’s the order, as decreed by tradition and God.<\/p>\n
Except …<\/p>\n
There have been some changes in the building arrangement over the last few months. The business unit whose wing this is has been decreasing in size, and our engineering group has been expanding. So there are now strangers on the floor.<\/p>\n
But, still, they’re engineers, y’know? So respect of order and existing arrangements should be their cuppa.<\/p>\n
Evidently not. The coffee carafes have gotten all higgledy-piggledy, turning up in pretty much any random order you can imagine.<\/p>\n
This is not easy, mind you. The carafes sit on little stands. Only one can be brewing at a time. To get them mixed up, you have to have one under the coffee maker, take another one down, put the newly-filled one up in the wrong spot, and put the to-be-filled one under the coffee maker.<\/p>\n
This is, evidently, what is happening. And it is driving me absolutely buggy.<\/p>\n
I mean, these this isn’t rocket science, folks! There is an order to things, and there’s no particularly good reason to change that order, and every reason to keep it consistent. To wit, the carafes are identified by little velcro-backed laminated tags describing their contents. But, given an order, nobody actually looks at the tags. They look at the coffee level in the small gauge along the front, but not at the tags.<\/p>\n
Which means, if the pots are reshuffled, who knows what you might get.<\/em><\/p>\nI tell you, is this any way to run an engineering firm?<\/p>\n
As I was making a new pot this morning, I noticed one of the tags on the side of the coffee maker was out of place. There are seven rows for the “day of the week” tags (so you can tell if a pot was made today, or is left-over from yesterday or over the weekend). There’s also a miscellaneous row for extra flavor and “1½ bags” tags.<\/p>\n
I fixed the one that was out of place. Then noticed another. And another. And another. <\/p>\n
Folks had just been putting them back at random. At random.<\/em> Are they mad?<\/em><\/p>\nAs I was doing this, one of the new engineers started to chuckle at my efforts. “That’s what we like to see, someone who likes to organize.” I grinned wanly.<\/p>\n
As I left, he chuckled some more. “It’s just too much effort to put those all back where they belong.”<\/p>\n
An engineer said this. An engineer.<\/em><\/p>\nRrg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I have been in this building, and this wing of the building, and using the break room in this wing of the building, since December 1999, when we moved in. (In a brilliant confluence of planning in advance and unfortunate lease agreements, we ended up moving in over Christmas weekend. Not only that, but it was, as you’ll note upon consideration, a week before Y2K. But I digress …)<\/p>\n