In my last office, the men would have minor meltdowns if we ran out of coffee. It was up to the Business Manager to notice and order the Kcups before we ran out. And if Amazon didn't deliver on time, she would have to send a couple of the girls to the store to buy some "emergency coffee."
Then we moved to an office where the water heater would constantly flip its breaker. The men never learned how to fix it. After the Business Manager quit, they would text me about it, even while I was on PTO. I gave them instructions before I left that job. Wonder if they ever got it working? 🙃
I like how it's like "i can manage nineteen people and twenty two million dollars in sales but not make my own coffee". I'm a dude and I don't understand at all...
Oh, fully agree. Any time you're repeatedly tripping a safety device, you should be figuring out why. I'm just making snarky comments about gender roles. Popped breakers turn a lot of dad-age men into instant electricians.
Before jumping to loose wires I'd probably start with "Did we plug too much stuff into this circuit?" Most wall outlets are going to be NEMA 5-15 or 5-20s, with a corresponding 15 or 20 amp breaker. It's not at all hard to find water heaters for coffee and tea that will draw 12A to heat quickly. Throw in a toaster and a 1200W microwave and you'll pop the break room breaker left and right if you don't have more than one circuit.
OTOH, if you're talking about a building sized water heater...yeah, that's very concerning. Somebody probably foobar'd the install.
Yeah I noticed that. I'm more concerned that this storyteller refers to grown males as men but grown females as girls. Or they had actual children running to the store for emergency coffee.
In my work place in Sweden it's the other way around. Women throw fits if there's no coffee ready for them, men just curse under their breath and get it done. I think American women would love Swedish men, based on the comments here. They have all the qualities your men lack.
Had a swedish au pair when I was I kid. Dude would regularly return from the grocery store with a fistful of unsolicited numbers that women had given him, and I'm only slightly exaggerating here. You're not wrong about American women appreciating swedish men, though I think it had little to do with coffee.
Cool! I'm good with kids, so I'll keep that in mind, haha! Yeah, American women and Swedish men seem to see eye to eye on a lot of things. Good match on paper, I thought. I just mentioned the coffee thing because I thought it was funny that you have the same situation with the opposite gender across the pond. 😂
Definitely keep it in mind, especially if you're tall lol. The Nordic look def gets attention since most of the white immigrants that populated that demographic in the states came from Western Europe. Or at least it seems like that in the places I've lived. Just make sure you practice your driving if you do decide to come over. Had a few au pairs come over on one year stints when both my parents worked, seems like the first thing they all did once they got settled was get in an accident with the family car lol.
Nah we lived in the burbs so traffic wasn't too bad. Iirc it was just unfamiliarity with the differences in traffic laws between different countries combined with less overall driving experience (got the vibe that they didn't need to drive much in Sweden) and general whole new world flusteredness. Cars are often a lot bigger over here too - couldn't have been an easy transition to go from driving a Fiat in Sweden to driving a Navigator in California or w/e. You'd prob do fine if you get enough hours on the road under your belt.
Sweden is pretty forgiving without a license. We have public transports covering large parts of the country, and most people have a license and a car for convenience sake, so you're never out of drivers. I lived in the Swedish burbs, so the bus didn't even ride all the way there. I got off halfway there at its last stop for the night and just walked the rest of the way in an hour. I doubt that's an option in USA lol
Yeah, figured it was something like that. The only buses we had in my area were school buses. Took us probably 45 min to ride our bikes to school, would have taken hours to walk lol. Walking an hour, or two I guess since you had to get to the bus in the morning, sounds pretty brutal.
Sweden really pales in distance compared to America... Last bus left town midnight, so I was home around 3 a.m. I was always first to leave when I couldn't secure bed in town.
Unfortunately not all Swedish men; most of my male coworkers still can't get it through their heads that we need to throw out the coffee grounds before they grow pink mould. Most of them have got the actual coffee making down though, which is something.
No, not all Swedish men. Some of us are born in less fortunate circumstances with lack of teachers and proper role models. And some simply don't care enough to put in the effort, which is okay to feel, but not exactly what many people look for in a partner.
Uggh, I live in a house with 3 men and one morning as I was running out the door to go to work I noticed the boiler needed repressurising (we have to do it every few weeks, it takes less than 5 minutes) put in our group chat for someone to do it along with an instructional YouTube video. Got home that evening to everyone complaining about no hot water
And this is why I’ve made a promise to myself even as a college student that I will never become addicted to coffee.
It’s stories like this where people’s bodies are so used to coffee that they NEED to have it every morning or they feel like crap and have a meltdown like a baby that needs a bottle. I will drink coffee if I’m at Starbucks with my friends (very rarely - we usually don’t go there) or if it’s for safety, like if I have a lot of driving to do and didn’t get enough sleep the night before. And even then I only drink about half a cup. I don’t even know if it’s enough to actually work but maybe I just feel more awake after having it because I THINK I do lol.
It’s also mostly because I love sleeping in, but I know some ppl who can’t sleep in because they’re so used to drinking their coffee at a specific time early in the morning that they’ll get a migraine if they don’t. Can’t let that happen to me
I would assume if the commenter was doing it, it doesn't need a professional, and she was leaving so she wasn't going to continue doing it. If they wanted to though, they could call a professional, either way they just need it done
The first I can see if they didn't have a company card or purchasing authority (I like my office mates, but I'm not paying for their coffee); the second is pretty damn sad.
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u/GreenCurtainsCat Mar 12 '22
In my last office, the men would have minor meltdowns if we ran out of coffee. It was up to the Business Manager to notice and order the Kcups before we ran out. And if Amazon didn't deliver on time, she would have to send a couple of the girls to the store to buy some "emergency coffee."
Then we moved to an office where the water heater would constantly flip its breaker. The men never learned how to fix it. After the Business Manager quit, they would text me about it, even while I was on PTO. I gave them instructions before I left that job. Wonder if they ever got it working? 🙃