Coffee Break

Who sits around the water cooler anymore and talks about last nights shows and scores of the "big game". I don't, shoot we don't even have a water cooler.

We do however have an industrial coffee machine. The type you would swear you could make a bomb with. Where you would think that by just looking at it it could actually makes cappuccino. Atlas though its just a simple machine that wakes the dead and summons conversations in the early mornings while in the break room.


As I mentioned I stare in front a computer, way too long, for the majority of my day. So, I'll go and instead of emailing a question to a fellow coworker get up and walk 15 feet to them to find the answer. The last thing I would do is try to bother them, so I try to pick up the hints of 1) them being on the phone, 2) engulfed in a project, 3) working on an email. There three things will show me whether or not it is the right time to ask the question.

However, some people cannot take subtle hints. Why? Beats me.

I find there are several people in my office who will find it without hesitation okay to walk up to me and start talking even though I'm clearly on the phone, flipping some pages on a manual, or looking at my computer screen and typing like a crazed individual to hit get the answer back to the higher-ups.

I'm sorry but no I cannot answer your question right now but apparently your more important then what I am working on. So, let me put down everything and hang up on the vice-president and stop my email reply to our district manager because you don't understand basic math on something I've explained to you several dozen times.