Re: Villain of the Week: Bolder Technology Corp

[Erik Reuter]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:48:38PM +0100, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> Actually, most companies here have coffee vending machines these days; the 
> "coffee lady" is, sadly, almost completely a thing of the past now. It 
> rarely ever happens that employees make coffee themselves, especially if 
> they're skilled, well-paid workers. This, of course, because they are too 
> expensive to let them spend time on such unskilled tasks like making coffee.

Forgive my ignorance (I don't drink or make coffee or know what exactly
is involved), but why the heck doesn't someone automate it? Hook up the
machine to water, coffee supplies, etc, put in a timer and some sensors,
and let the damn machine do it?

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