They've taken away the coffee!!

😯

Sounds like you are being treated like naughty schoolchildren. Pretty shoddy.

SOOBalias – Member

EDIT: if you dont like the coffee situation, you could vote with your feet, get another job.
Time to take your own advice prehaps.

I suspect SOOBalias was trolling…

So do I….in his post above he made no mention of being in the same boat as the OP.

Aero Press. Simple, makes great coffee, portable.

My condolences at the loss of your free perk. Better you make your own coffee than find a new job, eh?

How many staff are there?? You could all chip in and buy your own machine and then tell them to bollocks…. I acquired one of these a few years ago and it follows me to wherever I get posted. Big bags of coffee from the cash and carry and your sorted.

They took away our fridges, and wont provide kettels!

Think yourself lucky.

Coffee's a mug's game…

Great way to reduce productivity and morale too. If i was in the same position i know i'd find ways of getting my lost breaks back. 15min session in the loo usually works. Perhaps you should remind them that it is recommended that you have a break away from your computer and the tea break was a good way of doing this.
Work to rule. No overtime, take the full hour for lunch.

There must be a reason why coffee bags haven't been part of normal life for the last 40 years, like tea bags have.

Coffee goes off pretty swiftly after it's ground, unless it's stored correctly. This is why ground coffee is vacuum-packed and should be stored in the fridge after you've opened the pack.

With teabag-a-like coffee bags, the only way they're going to be as good as "fresh" ground coffee is if each individual bag is vacuum-sealed, which I expect would be prohibitively expensive (a theory which would be borne out by these single-use cartridge system machines).

Why do anarchists drink tea bag tea rather than the proper loose tea?

Because proper tea is theft!

IGMC

Cougar – Member

There must be a reason why coffee bags haven't been part of normal life for the last 40 years, like tea bags have.

Coffee goes off pretty swiftly after it's ground, unless it's stored correctly. This is why ground coffee is vacuum-packed and should be stored in the fridge after you've opened the pack.

With teabag-a-like coffee bags, the only way they're going to be as good as "fresh" ground coffee is if each individual bag is vacuum-sealed, which I expect would be prohibitively expensive (a theory which would be borne out by these single-use cartridge system machines).

in Tesco a box of 18 is under £3 its 18bags individually sealed, they are a touch larger than tea bags and need at least 3mins brewing time.

for 18 bags at £3 its about 17p per cup which is comparable to a decent bag of coffee that you would would push thru a cafetiere using the same brewing principle. its just more convenient and saves effort cleaning up afterwards.

Cougar – Member

Coffee goes off pretty swiftly after it's ground, unless it's stored correctly. This is why ground coffee is vacuum-packed and should be stored in the fridge after you've opened the pack.

Don’t refrigerate it. Again, at refrigerator temperatures, water molecules in the air within the canister will condense at these temperatures, and permeate the coffee.

The best material for an airtight container is ceramic or glass. Metal and plastic can impart strange flavors to the coffee, since they are both reactive materials. Ceramic and glass are not. And it is best to keep light away from the coffee, so a solid ceramic canister is better than a clear glass one.

Interesting info, both of you. Ta.

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Something similar happened at the last place I worked. They altered the free coffee machines to take coinage only.

Next thing that happened? Redundancies… 😐

Argue custom and practice. As you have had free coffee provided for a period of time this has effectively become a part of your contract and cannot be withdrawn.

On the breaks one he is right IIRC – you are only 3entitled to one 15 m paid break and a unpaid lunch break in a day.

To be honest, if your business has such cashflow issues that they feel a couple of quids worth of tea/coffee is going to make/break them, and it'w worth upsetting staff over, as MrWoppit says, it sounds like they're going bust. I worked at a place that was the second largest super/mainframe/minicumputer in the world after IBM a few years ago, and still recall when they cancelled the papers for reception, and feeling it was the beginning of the end.

It was.

Oh for gods sake tj ! And you moan about the "no blame no claim" society we live in! It's coffee, not a change to a 3 day week or something. It never ceases to amaze me how overly concerned people get on here about the most insignificant things… unless of course the op is a coffee tester 🙂

maxray – sorry forgot the smiley – that was supposed to be a Dave Spart type OTT comment for comic effect