.Two weeks ago my boss (43m) sent me (27m) an email which I found out later he sent to the rest of the office. He made us aware that the coffee brand the company buys us is no longer being provided. We all got quite enraged as the brand we are given isn't even expensive (around $6 per 100g) we are not a big company with about 15 staff total. We have each tried to make attempts to persuade him against it but he really won't budge.
After a week with a completely coffee-less staff thing started to get tense, many pointed out that this simple purchase made the office staff feel more like a joint team in a way. but no matter what we said he wouldn't budge on his stance. Me and my roommate (28m) who we will call mathew, decided it was time to be petty.
For some background our boss drinks EXPENSIVE coffee and has never let anyone taste it before. I've found out it's about 100ish nz dollars 57ish USD for his instant coffee(he buys it online). He constantly raves about his "perfectly smooth instant coffee” and we all have become sick of it. Me and Mathew went to the supermarket and brought a tub of what we'd normally be provided and waited for my next shift. Our shift starts don't line up so it was all on me to complete what we called the great coffee hist.
On Monday I came into work 20 minutes before he was scheduled to arrive and snuck into his office and switched the coffee. It was a fresh container. By the looks of it he had only had one drink. I switched the coffee powder labels between the containers, so he believed that i had brought in my own one from home but really i took his… this only worked because he would top our coffee up in one of his old containers because it came in a bag.
Later that morning i went in to conveniently chat to him to see how the coffee was treating him and it turns out HE LOVED IT. He told me that he didn't know what happened, but it got better overnight!! I had to practically run out of there to stop myself from laughing in his face.
I found Matthew to tell him what happened and him and the other colleagues around were dubbed over in laughter. But some kept calling me a jerk. This lead me to think that i may have made a grave mistake.
TL;DR: today i made a mistake by switching my bosses coffee
It will be tifu when you get sacked for playing with his food
yeah that’s true, it could totally backfire and get messy 😅 hope it at least stays a funny story and nothing worse comes of it
Honestly, if this is the thing that gets you fired, at least you’ll go out knowing you exposed his “premium taste” as instant-coffee nonsense. That’s a legacy in itself.
at $100 for instant coffee, I hope he's buying it by the ton.
he is yes
Where is the fuck up here? How did you fuck up? You told a story about screwing with your boss, but you haven't had any repercussions?
the guilt and the coming trouble
Wrong sub, but everyone sucks here. Supplying decent coffee for staff is one of the easiest ways to create goodwill, but you should never ever tamper with someone's food.
I know i shouldnt of
Winning!
Swap it again for Kopi luwak (civet shit coffee).
you swapped his $100 bougie coffee for the peasant brand and he called it “better overnight” while you’re dying inside 😭 lowkey the pettiest W ever, you gonna tell him the truth or let him live in his delusion fr??
a little delusion never hurt no body