Our office got new coffee machines last week. Earlier, the kitchenettes used to have those old coffee percolators which had to be refilled each time 5 people decided to have coffee. There was a mail last week that the vendors have been changed and the new coffee is supposedly roasted in Champaign and brewed right under our noses, in the kitchenette of course.
There is a new contraption which churns out the coffee which is then stored in huge canisters. The difference? I do not have to refill the percolator every now and then and there is more coffee made at one time. Old coffee in new jugs. That is what I thought.
Unfortunately, I could not make out any change in the taste and there seem to be more people thinking like me.
I was standing in the smaller kitchenette, sending some documents by fax when one of the senior managers came in. The guy from admin also happened to be there.
This is a part of the conversation that took place there.
Old guy: "Joel, what is it with these new machines? The coffee tastes the same to me! What change do you claim to have brought about?"
Joel (the admin guy) has no answer and being the tricky old fellow that he is, he says, "Negative, I am not going to answer this. You know, there is a saying - some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope. That is the situation here."
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