• 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Your places of work are providing a coffee machine? And they’re stocking it? Someone was nice enough to buy one for the break room, and everyone who partakes in the break room coffee rotates who buys the next can/bag of it.

    We also previously had this microwave with 0-9 buttons that set it for a totally arbitrary amount of time. You didn’t enter a number of minutes and seconds and press Start. If you pressed 2, you got 30 seconds. 3 gave you a minute. 4 gave you 3 minutes. None of it made sense. We got a new one a couple years ago with a dial on it that sets it for incrementally more time as you turn it. So much easier to understand without a player’s guide.

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      7 days ago

      The founder of the company that currently employs me bought some, apparently, crazy espresso machine for the break room (I don’t drink coffee or espresso or anything like that, so I don’t know what made it so special).

      However, when he sold the company, his one requirement (beyond the expected) was that he be permitted to take the machine with him.

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        Kinda makes sense, a nice espresso machine can cost over $10,000. I was thinking about getting one, but I would’ve needed to share expenses with someone. Then I was like “what if I made coffee and sold it to pay for the machine?” And then I realized I had just reinvented… the café.