Job has a coffee maker

[conuly]

Now, we don't have a coffee maker. We have a french press, and we have a pourover thinger, and no coffee maker. Electric coffee makers are roach magnets, and I will stand by that statement.

But the job has a coffee maker, a nice new model after the pot on the old one broke, and the lid on top opens to the left, which means you have to hold the coffee pot in your right hand if you want to pour the coffee into the machine. Also, all the measurement numbers on the coffee pot are only visible if you're holding the handle in your right hand.

And you may say this is petty, and it is - well, it's petty for me because I have two hands, I might well be more annoyed, and justifiably, if I was missing one! - but somebody made a choice to hinge the lid on the left instead of on the back, and somebody, maybe that same somebody, made a choice to only put numbers on one side of the handle instead of both. And they didn't have to make those choices, they could've made different choices that didn't screw me over personally, me and all the other lefties as well as approximately half of all people who don't have mobility in their right hand or don't have that hand at all*, and they chose poorly. Probably didn't even think it through even a tiny little bit.

* Wait, is this a valid assumption? Or are people more likely to be disabled on this side or that side?

************************

Barbie debuts autistic doll with sensory-sensitive, stimming features (Mattel worked with ASAN)

Watch: Moment more than 80,000 teddy bears fly onto ice rink

Why does AI suck at making clocks?

‘We’re asking for very basic things’: 15,000 nurses are on strike in New York City

A Dallas Megadonor, a New Nonprofit, and the War on ‘Housing First’

America vs. the World

Poor communities threatened by aging sewers see crucial aid slashed under Trump

European leaders warn Trump's Greenland tariffs threaten 'dangerous downward spiral'

Comments

[watervole]

I think trying to pour with a lid at the back would be dangerous. I'd probably prefer to pour with my left hand than do that.

But putting numbers on both sides should be easy.

why do electric kettles attract roaches? (not saying they don't, just wondering why)

[conuly]

The old one hinges on the back. You’re just tipping the pot forwards instead of sideways.

Roaches like warmth and humidity, and if there’s condensation as well, so much the better.

You’ll always find them, if you have them, under and behind the fridge, under the cable box, under the toaster (crumbs make up for the lack of damp), and in the bathroom as you shower. And in the coffee maker.

[watervole]

that's what I thought. I'd be really worried pouring boiling water towards me.

Roaches sound horrid. I guess the warmth from a kettle is attractive to them.

I'm very glad we're fortunate enough not to have any.