Another incident in the pantry

I acted impulsive and told someone off in the pantry this morning.

The Background
Since a few months back, my company has been actively hiring. At about the same time, they change the water filter/dispenser to another brand. If that is not enough, they also change the Nestle Nescafe coffee machine to the current one called Bevanda. Honestly, the Bevanda coffee sucks. The black one is so bitter that however much water I add to it, it still taste so bad. Whereas the pre-mixed one is overly sweet that there isn't much coffee taste but just sweet.

The few changes created a situation where there is shortage of hot water. We either ran out of hot water or the hot water isn't hot at all. Sometimes when I forgot to check before filling my cup with 'hot' water, my coffee becomes very geli because the mixture wouldn't dissolve properly. Yuck! There goes my morning coffee.

The Effect
First, the hiring increases people that use the pantry. Then there was also cubicle swapping. A non-engineering department was switch to my level where they consist of mostly aunties. I know I will be an aunty very soon, or maybe already is aunty by now and I shouldn't call them that way but sometimes I can't stand them. So I am going to be bad and call them aunty anyway.

Secondly, the changing of the coffee machine cause a lot of people to make their own drinks, mostly 3-in-1 drinks. This cause more demand for hot water.

This point I am not sure but it may be a contribution factor to hot water shortage too. The new brand of water dispenser may not be as efficient as the old one. Maybe it takes longer time to boil the water or maybe the capacity is smaller.

Last but not least, we have more inconsiderate people using the pantry, which I blame the aunties.

The Situation
I tested the hot water from multiple water dispenser in the pantry. Found one that is still giving out hot water. So I move to the side and empty a packet of 3-in-1 coffee into my cup. While I was doing that, 2 aunties ladies came in and started filling their thermos with hot water from the dispenser I tested. 1 filled and done, ok, fine. "She better leave some hot water for my coffee", I was thinking to myself. So did the 2nd lady, she filled up her mini thermos. Ok, fine too. What boils me up was when the first lady started filling up her 1.5liter of Tupperware water bottle from the hot water tap. There is the normal temperature water and the hot water option. By then, can see that the water slow to a pee pee drips. And the 2nd lady said in Hokkien to the 1st lady while looking around at the other water dispenser, "Oh, no more hot water". What is the purpose of filling up your 1.5liter water bottle with hot water? Didn't you already have a whole thermos of hot steaming water? Filling that big drinking bottle is of no use, by the time you want to drink it, the water would have been cooled to room temperature anyway. I just had to said something then. "Wah, the way you are filling your bottle, big and small bottles, no wonder we ran out of hot water", I said in Hokkien. I walked away as I finish my sentence, not waiting for response from any of them.

The Reflection
I know I should have just shut up, not said anything and go get my hot water from the pantry at another floor, but I just can't hold it anymore. We'd be seeing each other again in the pantry and it would be awkward. But then again, I can't remember their faces anyway. So even if we come face to face again, I won't know it's them, is this consider good news or bad news? It is people like that in this level that are causing all the hot water shortages. We don't see this problem in the pantry one floor below although they have just as many people in that level.