For the record, the coffee mug backfired in the office environment. Got my own aesthetically pleasing coffee mug that made me happier at work. Then proceeded to spend social capital getting my mub back from coworkers, then proceeded to worry about wasting social capital on something as insignificant as a mug, then proceeded to waste time doing a cost benefit analysis on having an aesthetically pleasing mug.
Cleaning staff collects, washes and returns to storage all mugs daily. Hiding my mug in a drawer is a not-proportional response, the pleasing mug is to ease mental burdens not add to them.
As of this reply, I’ve spent more energy discussing the absentee mug than dealing with the absentee mug. I believe I’ll take a catalog of this discussion to make an absentee mug protection decision tree to aid future less wrongers. Stay posted for results.
P.S. For the record: the mug has been released to the wild, may it bring joy to others, and if it really did love me it will come back. I’ve filled the gap by putting up an aesthetically pleasing calendar, I forecast that it will be less mobile.
Other solutions:
1) write your name on the mug
2) clean and hide your mug in your desk drawer when you leave
3) buy a mug for everyone
An alternative to 3 that doesn’t leave you out of pocket would be to say “this is my mug that I bought, it’s nice isn’t it—if you like it so much, why don’t you give me $X for it (which is how much I paid) and I’ll buy another one for me.”
An alternative to 3 that doesn’t leave you out of pocket would be to say “this is my mug that I bought, it’s nice isn’t it—if you like it so much, why don’t you give me $X for it (which is how much I paid) and I’ll buy another one for me.”
I think that’s going to make you seem weird, unless you work as like a bond trader or something. Normal people don’t do that sort of thing. And the GP’s post was about being worried about expending social capital.
For the record, the coffee mug backfired in the office environment. Got my own aesthetically pleasing coffee mug that made me happier at work. Then proceeded to spend social capital getting my mub back from coworkers, then proceeded to worry about wasting social capital on something as insignificant as a mug, then proceeded to waste time doing a cost benefit analysis on having an aesthetically pleasing mug.
Please describe the mug.
This is relatively upvoted. Is there a mug related meme I’m missing here?
I was just curious about what sort of mug could cause so much enthusiasm.
The mug. Turns out the simple minimalist style is popular with our technical staff.
Nice mug
The mug is gone. Please provide mug again if possible.
The URL is available on the web archive.
As in, “I need to have exactly this kind of mug. It will vastly improve the quality of my life!”
I think there is an underlying problem here which is not really related to coffee mugs....
True, but you pick your battles. Or the underlying problem is I find it uncomfortable to tell someone that ‘that is my coffee mug’.
I guess I’m curious about why you couldn’t just store your mug in a different place from your co-workers.
Cleaning staff collects, washes and returns to storage all mugs daily. Hiding my mug in a drawer is a not-proportional response, the pleasing mug is to ease mental burdens not add to them.
As of this reply, I’ve spent more energy discussing the absentee mug than dealing with the absentee mug. I believe I’ll take a catalog of this discussion to make an absentee mug protection decision tree to aid future less wrongers. Stay posted for results.
P.S. For the record: the mug has been released to the wild, may it bring joy to others, and if it really did love me it will come back. I’ve filled the gap by putting up an aesthetically pleasing calendar, I forecast that it will be less mobile.
Other solutions: 1) write your name on the mug 2) clean and hide your mug in your desk drawer when you leave 3) buy a mug for everyone
An alternative to 3 that doesn’t leave you out of pocket would be to say “this is my mug that I bought, it’s nice isn’t it—if you like it so much, why don’t you give me $X for it (which is how much I paid) and I’ll buy another one for me.”
I think that’s going to make you seem weird, unless you work as like a bond trader or something. Normal people don’t do that sort of thing. And the GP’s post was about being worried about expending social capital.