Your boss wants you to make coffee

[The Loner]

Only if I'm not busy.

 

[metta]

I'm self-employed, so the scenario does not work. If I had a boss, I don't think he/she would want me to make it because I don't know how to make it. I don't drink coffee. And people get particular about how they want their coffee. If they didn't mind it tasting bad, I would not mind making it. Being self-employed, I do it all.

 

[Dargelos]

My bosses never wanted me to make their coffee, they'd be afraid I'd put poison in it.

 

[rareboy]

Im not being arrogant. Nor am i beneath making coffee. I just want to use the skills i have more efficiently to everyones benefit, and i dont mean the coffee brewing kind.
Yes its great for the boss to notice you because you make an excellent cup of coffee as someone said, but is that all you want him to notice? Your coffee making skills?
And no I dont expect a corner office on my first day. What i expect is a little respect and trust in the work that i do, that i can also get experience, which is the reason im here.

I wonder if cellular is now the president of the company all these years on?

Hopefully he didn't have to do anything requiring apostrophes.

 

[Kahaih]

It takes a minute or two to get the coffee pot going.

That's true.

So the lazy bosses can get off their sorry asses and do it themselves. No one's time/skills are so precious that they can't get their own fucking cup of coffee. If they think it is they can go without.

 

[rareboy]

I actually taught one of my bosses how to make coffee.

 

[Kahaih]

I've always kept a coffee maker in my office. Within arm's reach. Even though I've only ever drank a cup or two in the early morning.

Had I found the walk to the break room or kitchen to be too much, I'd have added a wet bar.

I have one sitting beside me here in my home office. I can't remember when I used it last.

The only time I've ever treated an employee even remotely like a servant is when I would commandeer one to be my chauffeur when I had meetings outside the office so I was able to go over paperwork and make phone calls. Most of them jumped at the opportunity.

 

[rareboy]

I actually taught one of my bosses how to make coffee.

I also gave one of our students an extra $1000 end of term bonus because they did it without even asking.

 

[peeonme]

Back in the day I got to work 15 minutes early, opened up the shop and made coffee. It was no big deal.

 

[Vannie]

I usually make it or bring it.

I now want some seedless raspberry jelly donuts rolled in cinnamon and sugar. And coffee. One of you better bring them to me me or else!

 

[NotHardUp1]

I now want some seedless raspberry jelly donuts rolled in cinnamon and sugar. And coffee. One of you better bring them to me me or else!

Sorry. Best I can do on the fly:

 

[NotHardUp1]

If your boss ask you to make coffee, would you? BTW, you are not the office coffee boy, you are a professional/trainee in the workplace.
The reason i ask is that i have done some work before in firms during my university holiday, and some of the guys just wanted me to pour them coffee or photocopy stuff. I think im more then that, i went to university to learn skills to use in the firm, but i always find myself pouring coffee for my superiors.
On one hand, i dont mind, given that they are still going to pay me. On the other, its kindof degrading that you are fulfilling the role of office coffee boy.
You thoughts.

Your posts in your thread imply you were expecting to break out as an intern and be rewarded for it. Your grammar and multiple misspellings call your basic skills into question, even though you may have only been a Business major, a very low bar in degrees, if you finished your degree.

Presuming you continued in business as a career, you likely noticed admins in companies have almost as much influence in the company as the executives do.

ANY employee who is associated with service is highly valued, no matter what level, and you can't be much more valued than to provide what the majority of Americans are unashamedly addicted to, caffeine.

If you didn't get any significant tasks during your internship, it was very likely your fault. If you copied a bunch of material for full-time permanent employees, how hard could it have been to ask any or all of them, "I can't help noticing the XYZ you guys are working on. Is there anything I can do while I'm here to maybe do some of the grunt work involved? I know it's a time-eater for you, but it would be good practice for me, and I'd get some real insight into the day-to-day requirements of doing the job."

No company I have ever worked for lacked employees who were averse to off-loading basic tasks, and as a beginning employee, those are exactly the tasks you should eagerly demonstrate willingness to perform. Making coffee would have been a great bridge to demonstrating willingness to work as requested.

 

[Kahaih]

Of course it's no surprise that there are plenty of gay men who are eager to perform wifely duties. We don't need to ask those coupled which one is the bottom/bitch, do we.



But I wonder how different this thread would look if an educated woman was telling us how demeaning it is for a boss to assign her household chores.
We'd likely be reading terms like 'misogynistic pig'.

 

[NotHardUp1]

But that would presume making coffee is a "wifely duty" in today's society. I doubt that's true.

Plenty of men make the coffee in homes and at work. Plenty of married men rise before the wife and go to work before she's even up. Plenty of men are too frugal to buy overpriced Starbucks so are happy to make their own.

I read smack on 9gag from men who are anti-feminist and post about women belonging in the kitchen, but they are not seen as the majority of men even there.

Making coffee doesn't conjure images of women in aprons. It's simply a household function like feeding the dog or buying groceries.

It's not 1950.

As for how the OP might look if female, I don't think any acrobatics can remove the stain of it looking like a whining intern who is overrating his worth and skills and blaming the system for it.

 

[Dominus]

Back when I was working in design, whoever came into the office first made the coffee.

 

[rareboy]

^ This was our rule as well.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Back when I was working in design, whoever came into the office first made the coffee.

I come in earlier than most at work, and I sometimes make both pots of coffee even though I don't usually drink coffee. It's just a team thing to do.

 

[Kahaih]

But the opening post isn't about making coffee because there's no one else there to do it and you really want your coffee.

The opening post isn't about being cordial with fellow employees.

The opening post isn't at all about volunteering or any other act of kindness.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

But I wonder how different this thread would look if an educated woman was telling us how demeaning it is for a boss to assign her household chores.
We'd likely be reading terms like 'misogynistic pig'

Depends.

If she were an executive and male executives were asking -- or worse, telling -- her to make coffee, yeah, we'd probably be calling the male execs out.
(And yes, that was a problem at least into the 1990s in quite a few workplaces.)

If she were an intern or an entry-level new hire, we would probably be every bit as harsh as we're being now.

 

[Kahaih]

Appalling