You must have enjoyed the awesome
Cappuccinos, Lattes or even espresso from the recently installed CCD coffee
vending machine in you nearby pantries. Must have visited different floors to
get a closer look at the girl or the guy you had your eyes on from ages and
he/she magically appeared in you tower ;) or just to avoid your manager on the
same floor :P
Whatever the case be, in some
hour of the day you pay a visit to these ‘young’ machines and every time you
do, they greet you with a nice brewed cup of coffee. These young guns have
become an essential part of our daily life and provide us with the best stress
buster poured in WIPRO cups :P Imagine a day without a cup of coffee, leave the
stress factor apart, what about the long hour discussion with friends in a 15
min break ;)
Whenever we stay for extended
hours, work on weekends or holidays, even in the times we need to stay back and
work alone and all your team has left, this friend is always there for you,
with all its lights twinkling from far, waiting to provide you some relief. In
short, it never disappoints. But something recently happened that disturbed me
and left me in a thought process.
The mortified soul of the coffee
vending machine in a 24x7 pantry gave me a cup of coffee on a deserted Saturday
morning squeaking and squealing in a shrill voice as it managed to give half a
cup of latte’. I felt pity as it could not fill the cup full and I had to
create a unique blend of espresso, latte and cappuccino. Once the cup was full
mixed some sugar and turned again to the machine to get add some of the latent
heat of evaporation to my cup of blended coffee :P just to hear a baby crying
:O I was in shock where’s the baby crying in office, in the shock my finger
came off the steam button and I realized it wasn’t a baby but this little
machine’s steam discharger. I felt sad that this poor chap was being exploited.
Just the fact that it is in a 24x7 pantry it is never turned off.
The quality of the coffee is
reduced as in taste, then the ratios I wonder are appropriate when I get a half
cup instead of the cup being full and I have to bend down and look up and say
‘Dude, did you drink the half cup yourself’ :P We all need coffee breaks from
work, but I think these machines also need some human breaks :P
You might be wondering I am
pitying on these machines..NO I’m not. I just want to say the 24x7 pantries
should have two machines to work in shifts :P so that the taste and proportions
are maintained and we get nice brewed coffee in our breaks even on Weekends :D
:P
