Coronal, At All Times I Have 2 Pots Of Coffee Going.
A 12 Cup Pot And A 4 Cup Pot... When The 12 Cup Is Empty,
And I'm Preparing Another, The 4 Cups Keeps Me Going Until The 12 Cup Is Finished Brewing... Then I Reload The 4 Cup Again...... "Drink And Repeat"..
Not As Complicated As It May Seem, Or I'd Not Be Able To Do It. I Jest Don't Be Two Brite

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney We just have one but it's a 14 Cup, which in reality is 5 mugs.

YUP ~~ That'll Do-er.'

That Should Be A Mandatory Rule.

SPC Michael Terrell - ..
LOL...There Will Be NO GOLD STAR On Your Report Card...

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - He was an ass! He would walk into my shop and say, "I should fire you!" I asked why. He would shrug and say, 'Just Because."
One day one of the company VPs was at our site. He asked me to troubleshoot the switch cluster of his British car. My boss walked in while we were talking. The VP said, "I'm not mechanically inclined." I grinned at him, "Richard? You're not only not mechanically inclined, you're mechanically declined!" My boss started yelling, "You can't talk to a VP like that!" The VP snapped, "Shut up, it's true or I wouldn't have to ask for help. This is the only site that sets my equipment up and tests it for me before I arrive," Then he thanked me for my help.
Richard was the head of marketing for one of the top 100 Cable TV companies in the US. He would handle the promos for the free weekends on HBO or other premium services. I also made cassette tapes each month for the promos we sent to radio stations all around the country.

SPC Michael Terrell - ...
Sounds Like You Had A Fun & An Interesting Career, Mixed In With An Azzhole Or 2.
I Was Fortunate, As I Spent All Of My Adult Life In Management Positions And Gave Crap To Others Rather Than They To Me..... Actually That's NOT True. I Learned In My Early Teens On How To Manage People And Businesses. It's Actually Quite Simple, For The Most Part; Just Place Yourself In The Employees Shoes & Solve The Issues Together... And When It Comes To Discipline, Do It In Total Privacy Where Only You And The Employee Are Present; BUT Always Praise In Public To Give Your Employee Credit For His Achievements And The Other Employees Are Made Aware Of It.. Management Is FAR Easier Than It May Appear... Common Sense Is The Main Ingredient.

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - That site had purchased a turnkey headend Cable TV Head End from RCA. It included an emergency alert system that would feed the same signal to every channel, in a disaster or emergency. It was a couple yeas old when I was hired. It had never been tested. I did, one night to find that it 'worked' but not properly. I found a splitter wired improperly and corrected it. I logged the repair, only to be informed, "RCA doesn't make mistakes!"
I was repairing cable TV converters, on second shift. Some TV stations would go off air early, so I couldn't align the converters. We had a spare character generator channel, so I proposed modifying the alert system to put a message on any inactive channel, 'This staton is off the air. Please check you program guide' That manager yelled, "You always want blue sky' Hell no" I did it anyway. It cost under $2 for some diodes to add the off air detection circuit to each channel. This served two purposes. It eliminated the dead channels at night, and automatically tested the emergency alert system. When the owner of the system visited, the manager claimed it was him that did it. The owner knew better.
His downfall was when he fired a young woman. She was a nice kid. A recent HS graduate with no self confidence. She walked into the shop one day and said, "I'll make a deal with you. If you don't pick on me like the others, I wont bother you." I didn't spend much time out of the shop, but I had noticed that something was wrong. I asked her, and it took several tries to get her to tell me that the manager, and one tech were sexually harassing her. I asked who was the worst offender. She told me, so I told her, "The next time that he does it, smile and say, 'From what I've heard, you aren't even worth the 30 seconds'. Then add, 'What was your wife's phone number, again?'" She turned red, "I can't do that." I said, "You have to." It took her a few weeks to build up her courage, but she did. All the women in the office stared laughing loudly, and I saw him run past the shop to leave the building.
That stopped the harassment, dead. She started having more self confidence, then dating. A year later she was married, and ten months later she was a new mother, She was out for about a week, a few weeks later, he fired her for, 'only caring about her baby' when she was the hardest worker in he office,
She, and several former workers filed a lawsuit against him. He laughed, "The company gave him a choice: He could quit. He could pay for his own lawyer, but if he lost, he would be fired. He quit, then had to deal with his angry wife.
He would say, "When I say jump, my wife asks, "How High?" He did that one day when I was in his office. It had a window to the parking ot so I asked, "Isn't that your wife's car?" He turned red and abut filled his pants!! We knew who ruled that roost.