Office Coffee- An Ethical Question

Some offices have really shitty coffee. We've all worked in them. Usually they're the places that demand that you pay for it as well. A friend of mine described this type of coffee as "water and black". I think that's accurate. Older people seem to have a weakness for this coffee too. It's like they wave the greenest of beans over a cup of hot water and think they've brewed a cup of coffee. I don't know. Maybe that's what drinking Folger's Crystals in the 70's does to you.

My office has good coffee. It's not great, but it's rather good. Well, provided you can find a French Roast or Sumatra, or a little Dark Magic (extra dark coffee) and not decaf. Or blueberry. Yes, blueberry.

This coffee comes in little "k-cups". They look like giant creamers, but they're filled with coffee grounds. You put one in the machine, it punches a hole in it, and brews up a nice 8oz cup of coffee. The problem is, you hardly ever find the good k-cups on the shelf. Instead it's vanilla or hazelnut. Or vanilla hazelnut decaf.

Which brings me to my dilemma. If you're faced with decaf or flavored coffee just about every day, but you've managed to find a box of the good stuff, do you take it for a private stash? Is it justifiable if you feel like your contributions to the organization are at stake? What if it's absolutely imperative that you have a good strong cup of coffee in the morning or nothing but watery nothingness is going to come out of your head? Does it make it better if you share it with like minded people?

It seems like a fair trade to me.