{"id":383,"date":"2013-02-04T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myresearchrants.wordpress.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2018-04-12T03:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T03:15:46","slug":"no-such-thing-as-bureaucracy-free-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/no-such-thing-as-bureaucracy-free-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"No such thing as bureaucracy-free coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> Deep inside, I’m a nice guy so when I saw our last full team meeting was going to be a long one I decided to buy some coffee and pastries for the team<\/a>. In fact, my hidden goal was to improve the productivity of the meeting (better to have breakfast altogether than having a break and refocus afterwards) and for the team finances, paying a breakfast is nothing, right?<\/p>\n Big, big mistake. We (myself and the person from the team I asked to take care of the “breakfast organization”) ended up wasting one hour of our lives and finally deciding against the free breakfast. This is what happened:<\/p>\n At this point I pulled the plug. I have my own limits and providing a full list of people to be able to buy some coffee using my project money goes beyond them. So, a nice intention ended up in a lot of angriness (and hungriness). Dear System, you won this battle but the war goes on. P.S.: When I decided to stop it, the secretary assured me that this was nothing personal, the process was the same for everybody. To be honest, at that point I’d have preferred that to be something personal and keep the illusion that others were able to freely drink coffee!<\/p>\n If anyone has an even more stupid experience than identifying all people that could potentially dare to drink coffee please let me know, I’ll surely feel better.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deep inside, I’m a nice guy so when I saw our last full team meeting was going to be a long one I decided to buy some coffee and pastries for the team. In fact, my hidden goal was to improve the productivity of the meeting (better to have breakfast altogether than having a break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,3,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordicabot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n