Coffee Coffee!

In an effort to wrest more productivity from increase the happiness of our engineering staff, we got a Francis Francis! X5 espresso machine from Whole Latte Love today.  After trying one or two (ok, six) cups, here is my initial assessment:

Mmmmm, that’s good coffee.  Orange is a good color for something that bestows caffeine.  Clean-up is pretty easy with these pods. Ouch, something in there burned my hand. Oh, there are orange LEDs on the orange case.  Pity I can’t hold my head steady enough to read them. Mmmmmm, that’s good coffee.  These unlabeled buttons sure are fun to push.  I think I’ve had enough for today.

Unlike our fully-automated coffee machine, using the X5 requires a bit of operator intervention.  I’m a bit worried that even the minimal amount of clean-up may be too much for regular office use.  Tomorrow, I’ll put this sign over the machine:

 

Notice: Using the espresso machine and failing to clean up after yourself is grounds (ha ha!) for immediate termination.

Sincerely,
The mgmt.

We’ll see how it goes.

[BTW, I was going to write, “in an effort to increase the productivity^H^H^H^H^H happiness of our engineering staff…”, but decided that virtually no one would get it.  That’s the subject for my first ever blog poll:]

[Oh, and have any bloggers out there had good experiences with hosted web poll scripts?]