water

We have a single-serving coffee maker here at work and we have several varieties of Van Houtte’s coffee available.  It’s a good system though there’s one important drawback.  It requires people to fill the coffee maker with water so that other people can fill their cup.  There’s nothing more annoying than wanting a cup of coffee and walking over to the coffee maker only to find that there’s no water left.  It takes a couple of minutes to heat up the water and so there’s not much point waiting around it while it’s doing this.  Often times I’ve had to fill it up with water, gone back to my desk, gone back to get a coffee and found that the water is already gone and again no one has filled it up.

It’s just an office pet peeve of mine.