I adore coffee. But how would they know the caffeine levels of the coffee? That’s just not available. It’s either decaf or not.
An example of the most moral corporate executive. Involuntary biology experiments on unsuspecting subordinates seems like an upgrade from what they’re doing normally through the psychological torment.
Decaf still has a fair amount of caffeine. This is clearly fake.
Decaf has very* little caffeine.
coffee does genuinely nothing to me except make me unable to sleep at night. dont get the people that are depending on it daily
The guys at work used to give me energy drinks, strong coffee and caffeine gels in the hope of making me buzz.
I don’t know if I’ve got a natural tolerance, or maybe because I eat a lot of dark chocolate I’ve built up a resistance. Caffeine doesn’t do anything to me.
Also apparently it’s not good to down a whole mug of coffee in one go. They used to find it funny when I did that. I don’t like coffee but I’ll drink it if you give it to me.
Coffee doesn’t even do that to me, nor does any caffine. Hell I can drink a monster energy right before bed
A likely indicator of ADHD
I tried coffee once, I do not recommend. I couldn’t sleep for two days and was extremely anxious, could not focus on anything. Strongest chemical I’ve tried, bar the sleeping potion for the wisdom teeth
half the world runs on coffee, a 3rd on tea, a quarter on energy drinks, and a probably an 8th on amphetamines
sorry about your genes
my reaction is due to genetics ?
it might be that one of your drug-metabolizing enzymes doesn’t work properly, tell your doc, there are tests for that
A reaction this strong probably is. But it’s ok, don’t let anyone tell you it isn’t.
what are you twelve?
I was 23 then
You can tell this is fake because caffeine withdrawal does NOT just cause “lethargy” people would be going home with headaches and worse.
Yeah, I’d consider the urge to commit homicide “worse” (and as a fresh convert, let me say, I’d NEVER get away with this comment on Reddit)
100% this. By the afternoon the first day it would be anarchy in that office. Headaches, crabby aggression, screaming, crying.
Plus, what entire office actually drinks all the same coffee from the same source?
Plus, what entire office actually drinks all the same coffee from the same source?
Yah that what I find the most hard to believe, especially given the writer is sipping a monster energy drink.
Me who buys cheap packets at the nearest convenience store almost every morning.
“You have no control over me! I have my own Spice! My own desert! My Arrakis! My Dune!”
Plus, what entire office actually drinks all the same coffee from the same source?
If it’s coffee provided by the company for free, yes they are.
Some, but certainly not all. People have their preferred coffee, out go out for the sake of going out. Free isn’t an absolute determiner of human behavior.
we have a free espresso machine and two free large cafetieres and a coffee shop where you pay on the ground floor. A lot of my colleagues still go to Starbucks across the street.
We have free coffee in our office. It’s terrible. Only half the people drink it. Others buy their own.
I mean, this is the reverse of unknowingly drugging someone, not sure if this is illegal or not, but it feels illegal lol
Pretty sure it’s illegal
Later on it says they switched back to the highest caffeine coffee available and everybody was vibrating. To me this should be kind of a big deal, but people seem way more upset about browser cookies and video-recording glasses.
true, all they care about is eat hot chip and lie
I am sorry if you are able to focus on a single problem at the time
That’s just simple conservative values. Critical thinking skills are not applicable.
I didn’t realize we’re only allowed to be mad at one problem. Someone actually doing this would be a problem. At the same time, ALPRs and data harvesting are absolutely also an issue. What the fuck are you talking about?
I bet they became habituated to drinking tons of coffee due to it being decaf. Dude straight dosed the whole office with a potentially lethal psychoactive substance. I can’t decide if they are a genius or an evil mastermind.
So many people eating the onion in this thread, I’m getting secondhand embarrassment
Caffeine withdraw is no joke, that’s how you get a really bad migraine or worse.
Should I stop drinking caffeine? I have two in the morning(7am and 8 am) and then none for the rest of the day. Am I subjecting myself to daily caffeine withdrawal?
(I only take medical advice from random internet people btw, never LLMs or 3D doctors)
If anything, you should drink more coffee
Yup, can very much confirm.
Please tell me this is satire…
No…! YA THINK?! COULD IT BE?
You never really know these days. I’ve seen plenty of shit that could’ve been satire except it was from people who were dead serious…
It’s weird to me simply because I bring my own brew. Office coffee just isn’t as good as my moka pot and if you’ve got a zojirushi or similar high quality thermos, you can have hot coffee for a majority of the day.
Meanwhile me bringing hot water to work to brew a fresh cup of tea right there :p
My KleanKanteen does the same. I was surprised how long it kept my drink actually hot (>12h).
PS: Mine haa no plastics touching the hot liquids. Only a replaceable silicone ring.you bring 2L of coffee to work with you?
I’ll bring 500mL sure, but not a whole day’s worth
I drink 500ml of tea and water at work.
If you can’t function without downing 3 or 4 cups of coffee, you need ro adjust somethingIt’s…time to make some changes in your life lol
Highly recommend not drinking that much coffee every day. For your heart
I make a full pot out of 2 cups worth of grounds at home lol. after I figured out my occasional weekend headaches were from caffeine withdrawal, I realized I actually had to deal with cutting back
it is a problem now when I go to the office and can actually get full strength coffee each time. at least it’s very infrequent
Moka pots are a little stronger than drip so it’s enough to keep me going. If something important is up, I might get a latte or something out… but I try to save that rush for important things so it still hits as intended.
Oh I should also mention I haven’t worked in an office for a couple years now. Now that I teach, I go full espresso before lecture and that’s it. Lol
I wonder to what extent placebo would exist here.
a coffee lover knows difference
You think these people drink coffee for the flavor?
They’re addicts.
I drink coffee every day.
Flavour is certainly extremely important.
I have never met anyone that likes coffee on the first try. I’m not saying they don’t exist, I’m just saying most people acquire a taste for it the same way they do with alcohol.
I mean with that last bit… I mostly enjoyed the taste of alcohol from a young age.
I never met them in the office. The coffee drinkers in my office are just drowning their coffee in milk and sugar.
Generally work coffee seems like just get me through another day of this shit medicine.
IMO, a lot of cheap office coffee isn’t palatable (or nuanced enough to bother taking straight) unless you doctor it up like that.
Dark roast and even some medium roast tastes like fireplace ash, decaf tastes like vegetable root farts and/or chemicals.
You are not joking. One of my favorite diners served Lavazaa which was always roasted to hell in order to bring out distinct “cigarette ash” notes. Needless to say, I didn’t go there for the coffee.
I really want to know if I’m doing it wrong or something. Maybe different brew methods that I don’t do, magically don’t pull out the burnt flavors??
As far as brewing goes, I’m not entirely in the know but I do have an idea. Anecdotally, I have found that you get different results with pour-over filtered, un-filtered (moka pot or french press), coldbrew, and espresso. I’m sure there’s something in there to do with heat, pressure, time, and how that impacts the extraction of different compounds. I’d change your brew method - you’re probably onto something there.
That’s the only way to get down most office coffee, and sometimes even that isn’t enough.
