$15,000 coffee machines ... who buys them? : NT Crime

Matt Flynn

http://www.news.com.au/business/worklif ... 6449610775

Ben Jam

What a joke, were getting cuts everywhere and this fellas are buying over priced coffee machines.

Trier

My wife would buy one if we had the spare coin, then it would gather dust in the pantry with every other blaady kitchen gadget - bread maker, popcorn maker, juicer, blender, the $250 coffee machine, mix master, rice cooker, 2 spare kettles and the food processor. The sandwich maker sits in the pantry, but it actually gets used sometimes....... :roll:

nomad

Come on you blokes. everyone needs good coffee. :twisted:

It always amazes me how the public service can find the $ for stuff like this and not for the essentials

Gotta go now, coffee time :lol:

itsinmeblood

my girlfriend works for the bureau of statistics here, they have to take their own tea and coffee in as there's no coin in the budget for extras....she's fairly impressed with this story :lol:

nomad

when i worked in the PS, it was the norm for people to walk out of the building, go to their favorite coffee shop, stand in line and return with a drink
it was a minimum of 1/2 hr away from work.
everytime the smokers went out for a puff, the coffee mob would also go outside.
can you imagine the loss of productivity while soooo many people were out?
I used to bring my own plunger and i couldnt taste the difference

sarrge

Yep, when I was in the Health Department, Ducks Nuts was kept busy with DoH staff over there getting coffees. So much wasted time - maybe we should put a $15K coffee machine in each department??

(for those about to explode with indignation, the bit about a coffee machine in each department was a joke)

Blinky

You're lucky it's not the Dept of Immigration.............not only do you have to buy your own coffee, but if you need to go on a "non compulsory" work related outing you gotta pay your own way for that too. While all along these "illegal clients" get the red carpet treatment!

Matt Flynn

Good to hear that not all PS is run that way, people are entitled to a good workplace, but $15k coffee machines? Yeesh.

A plunger is supposed to be one of the best ways to make coffee anyway ...

dirtyruiz

it may make public servants a bit faster on the bright side

darwinguy

Doesn't everybody have a flash coffee machine in every lunch room ?

Ben Jam

darwinguy wrote:

Doesn't everybody have a flash coffee machine in every lunch room ?

Yeah mate, kettle and blend 43 (from home) :lol:

nomad

we used to have a bloke who pinched peoples coffee,tea and smoko.
we couldnt find out who it was until when we made him a chocky cake laced with salts.
the offender went missing for a few days
he shat thru the eye of a needle for days

Sister Ed

I work for the PS, if you want decent coffee you buy it. Obviously not so in the big smoke.

olfart

Take it to work in a thermos.

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