…meanwhile, at the Lab…
You might not know this but to create, maintain, and develop a website, you need:
- developers
- graphic designers
- food (of which ingestion doesn’t necessarily require leaving your desk more than 7 minutes)
and coffee …
… a lot of coffee …
… seriously, really a lot !
So the firsts investments made in the name of our young company were, in all pure and simple logic, a coffee machine, a grilled-cheese sandwich maker and a few pounds of that brown gold commonly known as “coffee”.
Unfortunately, after a few months (2 to be precise), countless coffee mugs poured (a few thousands as it appeared after thorough investigation) and the fierce mechanism hardly getting any breaks at all, in the middle of a decisive and intense brainstorm on MarioKart on Wii, the unthinkable happened : the Senseo passed away.
The fact might sound anecdotic in itself but just imagine a brand new company, in its firsts steps, cut off from its essential power source !
There ! Our grand scheme trampled upon, our team in “full panic” mode !
So, after having bravely faced a gas leak in our street that lead to the evacuation of the building and its surroundings, the street work from 9am to 4pm where drills seemed to be engineered based on a conga tempo, the accordionists whom, from 1 to 10pm played the same enervating dumb tune, we thought we were done…
The solution, temporary but effective was clear: back to basics : the percolator, ground coffee and good old paper filters.
Yes, that good old pot so dear to our grandmothers…
After all that turmoil, the team safe and sound, the coffee and its never ending flow, we could at last return to the Lab and resume the development of our activities…
Thanks to @PtitBen for his support on Twitter, #PhillipsFrance who offered the replacement of the machine at their expense and to the Lab team who managed to keep its cool throughout the storm !
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