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I know who to call (ok, slack) when it breaks because it hasn’t been cleaned in a while and needs to be emptied. So I kinda know I guess.

As I'm working from home most of the week - probably me. Like today.

I am the only one who sets analog clocks at my work. I work with a lot of younger people, and I'm apparently close to the only one who can read them fluently enough that it's easier to glance at the wall than to take my phone out of my pocket

I found the cleaning tablets and ran a cleaning cycle: “We had cleaning tablets?!”

It’s me!

The same person who refills the coffee, working at the company which rents out the coffee machines.

One day, in the customer's pantry between meetings, I cleaned the Nespresso machine and topped off the water. The admin staff was surprised that it was working again.

We had this when we discovered there was an extra panel you could open to clean the inside. We’d been in that office for a year. It was… unpleasant. 🫠

That was me a few years back. Was still using the company provided Folgers and Mr. Coffee machine. With a little effort. I could make it palatable black. In recent years, I bring a chemex, grinder and kettle to the office.

I made the mistake once of helping clean it. Fried the wiring and had to buy a new one. I was hated by the office for a week. Not worth it

This is how I converted to using an Aeropress. Hot filtered water on tap. Better coffee than they would provide. Way to force myself to have an actual break.

youtu.be/YBI7eHks_2I It's important to be nice to office appliances as well as the person that cleans them

Thanks for the reminder to buy some white vinegar

Dude! I was fool enough to ask. And nobody was able to provide me with an answer,I had to talk to the purchasing and the safety department and send an email so I could get new filters bought (mind you this machine was 5 years old) now I CLEAN it. Because benefits? Hell nah give me my gogo juice

oh grossssss.

I can guarantee that every time I want a cup of coffee between 10.30am and 11am the coffee machine will be in the process of being cleaned. Somehow, simultaneously across every floor.

Wait, those aren't self cleaning?

The first time I saw one of the maintenance workers come in to clean it, I was filled with a deep relief that we actually have staff for that.

It’s me, I lick the granules up until it’s all clean and ready to brew! 😋

"Someone should do something!" Said someone.

Just heard about someone who came back into work after COVID and poured a mug of coffee that had been brewed 3 years prior. 🤢

Last job, it was me. I was working night shift, i needed my coffee, and i needed it not nasty. Everyone else was wondering. When i left some people spent a while wondering why the water line was disconnected after the machine ran empty. It never was connected. I filled it every night.

Blessed to work in a place where this is not the case

My old office had one of those "make everything" automatic coffee machine. Maintenance became my problem because everyone else was too scared to open it up and empty the bin of used coffee grounds. Companies that sell these must make so much money on maintenance fees.

And clean off all that seasoning?

I bet it’s not the guy who holds his cup under the first stream of fresh coffee, and dilutes the pot for everybody after him

We had ours donated a year ago. Used maybe 5 times because of this exact thing. Maybe we need sex robots who clean the coffee machines?

At Blizzard The Hague, it was secretly me for my entire tenure. The old barista in me couldn't handle how disgusting the machine was, but also full of grime in mechanical parts because nobody cleaned it for 6 months.

When I started my job 13 years ago I naively thought people were just kind of doing this. One day I thought, well, it’s probably about time for me to take a turn cleaning it. Everyone in that office owes me a debt of gratitude for what I saw so they didn’t have to.

Sacrilege! That's like running the cast iron pan through the dishwasher. This is why you kids are full of microplastics, stripping the protective layers.

One guy I know stepped up and dumped a bunch of vinegar into our machine. The one with the internal reservoir that doesn't fully drain with each brew cycle. That took… a while to fix.