Comments on: Office Politics

By: micksam7

micksam7 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:01:40 +0000

The second one’s handwriting is different. See the ds and the es.

I don’t regularly drink coffee, occationally I drink tea. I ussually wake up fairly fast due to my alarm clock though: My cat clawing on my hand.

I love the long-winded reviews klaude wrote.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:44:51 +0000

Jessie

Its interesting that we think alike

By: Gary Kinman

Gary Kinman — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:24:24 +0000

Oh, that’s only 40 mg caffeine in a shot of Stok. That’s about as much as my morning can of Diet Dr. Pepper. A can of Monster has 4x the caffeine of Stok. I guess if you really want to buzz, grab a Grande (16 oz) of Starbucks. It’s worth about 9 shots of Stok. Check out the caffeine contents of all these and more here: http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database/

By: Lance Crosby

Lance Crosby — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:44:34 +0000

Ever since Jacob turned me onto http://www.stokexpress.com/ I dont care what flavor the coffee is. Down on of these in your coffee and complete a full days work by 9:00am.

By: Richy C.

Richy C. — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:55:58 +0000

You guys are doing this all wrong. Changing your coffee? Tut, tut! You should be changing your office supply company

I used to drink a good couple of jugs worth of strong coffee a day (on my own), but I’m drinking more green tea and seeing some of my fellow techies switching to green tea: has SL tried it? (Hot green tea that is - cold stuff is yuk to my Western tastes).

By: Daniel McAloon

Daniel McAloon — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:56:29 +0000

I agree with Kevin’s comment about the bad coffee. A similar thing happened at a previous job when someone accidentally ordered a case of decaf. The whole company almost went under.

Also, to expand on Shawn’s article, I would like to point everyone to ISO Standard 3103: “Tea — Preparation of liquor for use in sensory tests”

The ISO standard is modeled after the British Standard BS6008: “Preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory tests”

(As a hilarious side note, all British Standards documents begin with the prefix “BS”)

As far as I can tell, there is no official ISO standard for a cup of coffee, but I did find many references to a “NATO standard” cup of coffee. Apparently this was more of a social commentary than an actual standard, but it did require six ounces of water, two tablespoons of coffee, cream, and two sugars. Since that’s how I take my coffee, I’m declaring it the official standard.

By: Kevin Laude

Kevin Laude — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:34:16 +0000

Number two was indeed written by someone else. Sales, I’m looking at you! Besides everyone knows that Klingons prefer Raktajino.

Onto the topic at hand though, I think technology is indirectly driven by all sorts of associated industries. I recall seeing a 25% drop in overall internet usage on the day the last episode of Star Trek:TNG aired. Why not add coffee into the mix? Make a bad pot of coffee and productivity for the whole office goes down.