Why is it so hard?
As someone who always drip filter, I was confused through most of this post failing to understand it was about coffee. At some point I considered whether it was about bra sizes.
I don’t know, but as I get older I find it more and more silly when I see marketing naming things (wsl still takes the cake). For the record today was the first ever I heard about k cup for coffee or bra.
Out of the 3 people in my apartment, I am the only one who ever removes the empty things from the machine. I always remove mine when I am done, and I always have to remove someone else’s before I start. 😬
“you kill it, you fill it”
Setting aside the topic, is this a common phrase? DDG had all of around 4-5 hits. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before.
People are trash.
We have a communal package area for resident and admin packages. Sales will literally open their shit in drop off and leave the open box in the area.
Started breaking them down and leaving them outside their offices. Fuck em.
I’d be such a cunt and leave a k cup on a shitheads desk but how would you know?
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.
Why are offices using k cups? Sounds both extremely wasteful and expensive.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
Ours orders the bags that are filters. Like big teabags.
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.
I simply fire them if they do that.
The problem is that I work in Home Office exclusively…
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.
Take your cup out and leave the lid open so it has a chance to properly dry and doesn’t accidentally a mildew situation
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. 🤢🤮
Mhhh…Protein :p
Also, the k cup is slightly hot immediately after use.
It won’t burn you but it can be unpleasant.
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!
I still don’t understand why people love K cups so much. They make the coffee taste like plastic. I can’t stand them.
They taste like cheap instant coffee
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.
I think that prize still goes to Alfred Nobel
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.
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
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.
He literally regretted his invention so badly he founded the Nobel prize
the guy who started bitcoin
Who’s that?
Its unclear. There is a japanese name associated with it but its assumed I believe that its not the persons actual name.
Why would they have regrets?
You know the story about the Somali pirate stock market?
Think that, but times 1000.
Bitcoin is mostly used for illegal shit. Mostly drug trades, but anything else criminal as well. Want to buy guns, whores, even a hitman? Bitcoin.
The drug trade basically created the value for Bitcoin. And then the traders who already had lots of it when people began hyping Bitcoin became richer and richer.
Which annoys me a whole fucking ton, because at one point I had over 120 Bitcoin in my possession. Should’ve saved at least one and I wouldn’t be in this problem. Well, honestly, I would, because I’d have probably sold it at 500 or something.
Back when I had then they were worth 1e a piece. Ordered me some drugs, so I never bought them as an investment, just as currency.
Tldr Anyway yeah investing in Bitcoin is essentially funding drug cartels.
Source?
Source for what? For my personal experiences? For me having purchased drugs?
Or the amount of marketplaces, interactions in the marketplaces, and their values?
We can’t quantify the size of the illegal drug trade, but it’s in the hundreds of billions, if not trillions.
Hell, if only any of those marketplaces were open anymore, I’d have had probably now worth thousands in Bitcoin because a portion of them remained after my shopping. I didn’t have a local Bitcoin wallet, the stores had wallets you’d transfer into.
But yeah they switch so often, after either cutting and running or being caught.
But yeah, that’s what made Bitcoin a bit more mainstream, but the value radically shot up once people began seeing it as something worth investing in, since the value was growing relatively fast even without there being investors.
I don’t know what you’re asking a source for, exactly.
With a world GDP of US$78 trillion in the same year, the illegal drug trade may be estimated as nearly 1% of total global trade.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade
And those are honestly very conservative (and bad) guesses. Of course it’s much larger. You can see if you google it, none of the guesses are even similar to each other, lol.
Also, remember there’s a hugely popular show called “how to sell drugs online - fast” or smth. It’s just everywhere. But people pretend it isn’t. It’s fascinating to me, the willfull ignorance.
We have to legalise all drugs to actually get them under regulation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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They use k-cups so being inconsiderate is a given.
Honestly in an office situation there is no excuse not to have a super automatic espresso machine. They cost like 1500 dollars and you don’t need to buy the damn kcups.
We have an espresso machine with kcups. Well the Nestle equivalent.
That’s like the worst of ALL worlds.
Right‽
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I’d say it’s both, yeah.
But also user demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.
What is a K cup?
single-use plastic pod of coffee (or hot cocoa or tea) put into a machine that runs water through it to brew the beverage.
What Keurig calls their disposable 1 time use coffee containers. I also hate them just in principal
I’m not sure that’s a thing in Europe, at least I never heard about that company. I only know these Nestlé trash
you absolutely have nespresso in Europe though
Which is Nestlé, right? ;)
Yeah, my first thought was that we’re talking about a K-size bra cup…
As someone who has never worked in an office, this sentence is so weird to me
it fucking sucks when the pot is empty, so if you kill the joe, you make some mo’
I do see where that would be annoying as hell
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I’m siding with team leave it in.
Take one out, put yours in.
Everybody removes one pod. Fair and balanced as all things should be.
I’m going to set aside my dislike for pod machines and coffee in general to point out that warm moist environments encourage microbial growth. It is best to open and empty the machine so it can breathe between uses; especially overnight or over the weekend.
You’re the kind of person who parks all the way on the passenger side of a parking spot, aren’t you?
This guy, I bet he even reclines in his airplane seat.
I said fair and balanced. I center that shit.
But your “fair and balanced” puts all the onus of clean up on the next person. Kind of like how parking far to one side of a parking spot puts all onus of creating enough space for people to get out of their car on the next person.
It’s passing the buck because you can’t be bothered to clean up after yourself.
But you in turn clean up for the person before you. Everybody takes one out, everybody puts one in.
I don’t see where the buck is being passed.
I feel like you’re either looking at this in too small of a scale, or your just REALLY hung up on my pods vs your pods. They’re all the same. I don’t see why you’re too good to toss mine if I’m willing to toss yours.
Also, my machine at home thinks you’re going to make a cup every time you open it, so instead of activating it when you DON’T want coffee, let it continue to think that it’s not coffee time, and when you open it up and remove the last pod, it’s ready to be loaded.
