Friday, March 12 - K-Cups

We got a new coffee pot for the staff to use.  It's one of the Keurig pots and we basically got the pot for free from the supplier and each teacher orders their own box of K-cups that they keep in their room and brew when they want.  I sent out a brief e-mail to the staff with some guidelines regarding the use of the coffee pot, including not leaving the water chamber empty for the next person, clean-up, etc.  The "goodwill" that this new machine brought lasted about one day. 

"Someone's not throwing their K-cup away when they're done" I was told.  (So you take it out and throw it away when you throw yours away.)

"They're going to burn out the heating element if they don't put water in" was another comment.  (The machine is programmed not to let that happen.  If it breaks, we'll call the company." 

"We need a garbage can near the coffee pot so we remember to throw away the K-cups."  (The garbage can is 20 feet away.  Why should the custodian have to empty a wastebasket into a garbage can in the same room?)

I wonder what a teacher in their classroom would do if they put a new, let's see.........., a new electric pencil sharpener in their room and they started getting complaints like.....

"Tommy's point broke off his pencil in the sharpener and he left it there." 

"Cindy didn't empty the sharpener when she was done.  She said the garbage can was too far away."

I think they'd get tired of these complaints really fast.

And so did I.

So here is the e-mail I sent to the staff in an effort to keep it humorous:

Subject:  K-Cups

No, this is not the start of some dirty joke – however, I’ve been “notified” (several times) that someone is leaving their K-Cups in the coffee pot for the next person to throw away. Since you can bring in your K-Cups from home if you have them, I’m sharing this with everyone and not pointing any fingers.


This is new and I’m sure we’ll all get better at it.


You know I really don’t want to have to be the “Coffee Police” because then I’d also have to remind you to fill the water reservoir up when it gets low and don’t leave that for the next person to do.


Okay, done now. Have a great day!!!

Coffee anyone?