Oh sweet, coffee
One time, $employer was having an all-hands event. During these events, everyone is in town from all over. I walked in the first day and saw a table of treats and gourmet coffee, and was like “oh sweet, coffee”. I walked up and was intercepted by someone who told me “Those are for the investors”. Of course the first thing out of my mouth was “I’m investing my life” like that was supposed to mean anything to him.
Life is a funny little sequence of random occurrences that leads to me being escorted back to the rows of computer desks with an empty coffee cup in my hand while the VP of Engineering says “We’ll bring some over if there’s any left”.
To the best of my knowledge, $employer does supply coffee to employees, and no, it’s not gourmet, but it is just fine. This is a story about me being dumb and missing the obvious signals that this was special coffee for special people. There it is. If I didn’t write that down I’d forget it sometday, and now it will live well past me (as long as someone pays my AWS bill). And yes, this was edited after $employer.HR contacted me.
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