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Operation Decaff
Week one
By penfold
Back in 2001 I was "between jobs" and ended up temping at an Insurance company for 4 months which was the most boring time of my entire life, and I know boredom after having to sit through far more Nicole Kidman films than any man should vere be expected to suffer through. Anyway, to get over some of the boredom I hatched this little scheme to make my coworkers suffer and stop me from going stark raving mad. I post the results here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy
*********************************************As I'm the only one that goes to the coffee machine round here (I drink water so I go through far more cups per day than anyone else and also I don't mind the time away from my desk) I thought I'd try a little experiment, namely to find out what would happen if I switched everyone in my office from ordinary coffee to decaff. I then decided to add a little spice by finding out what would happen if I switched eveyone to decaff for 2 weeks and then hit them all with high caffeine expresso for the final day. After two weeks of caffine deprevation a sudden caffeine overload should make for some interesting results.**********************************************************************
Day 1, Monday
I was slightly concerned that people would notice the change from standard to decaff but as the machine makes god awful coffee anyway I seem to have got away with it. There's no noticable affects yet but its only the first day and Mondays are dead here anywayDay2, Tuesday
Still no real noticable effects except for the fact that coffee consumption seems to be up on last week. I'm assumin' it's the same effect of a 20 a day Camel smoker suddenly changin to Silk Cut and then puffin through pack after pack to get even close to the same nicotine kick.Day3, Wednesday
Aha, success. We're getting definate results on what is only the 3rd day of experimentation. The Credit Control Supervisor has reached levels of stress usually only seen on a Friday by wednesday afternoon. Most staff members are starting to get stressed, more so than usual for a midweek. The ambient noise level in here has risen by quite a bit just since this morningDay 4, Thursday
Stress levels in the entire office are running at Friday afternoon levels. Faults with the computer system have risen to an all time high. The amount of faults themselves haven't actually increased but the amount of complainin about the systems goin on makes it look as though they have dramaticly shot up.Day 5, Friday
This experiment is yeildin' results I could never have dreamt of. Internal office disputes are now common place with a couple of stand up rows having occured already today. Other departments have started to comment on the increased stress levels up here. An unforseen problem with my experiment has been pointed out to me. As everyone's off home for the weekend I'm not gonna be able to replace their coffee with decaff till Monday. However with the effects ive noticed just this week means I should still be able to move to stage 2 (the expresso plan) by next friday
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