All the cups of censhare

Many things about censhare are explainable. The success. The spirit. The product. The vision. But one thing will remain a great mystery: our cupboard, and its content.

Of course, there are the white standard cups. But they hardly circulate. Because they are "standard". And who wants to be "standard", after all?

Then, there are the much sought-after cups. Let me call them the "category one" cups. These cups that are the first in the morning to move from the cupboard to the desks. Like the two Sun Java cups. Or Vero's old Apple cup, from the time where the Apple logo was still in rainbow colors, and the word "Apple" was set in ITC Garamond. Always popular is Peter's self made censhare cup - with the old CI - almost surrounded by a nostalgic breeze. And Andreas' private cup, looking black, but showing a picture of his doggy Chicco once it is filled with hot tea.

The next category are the "OK cups" - ordinary - neither very exiting, nor very disgusting. Cups with advertising logos from job portals, IT consultants, hardware vendors. Preferably, in neutral colors black or white. Using these cups, you don't attract attention, neither positive nor negative.

Well, and then there are the cups that remain for the poor fellows who sip their first coffee after lunch, when all the category one and two cups are already circulating. These poor guys need to be satisfied with the "kitten cup" (showing a kitsch picture of two baby kittens), the lady beetle cup, the "fading fruit on baroque porcelain" cup, the completely worn out "Pirates of Croatia" cup.

But the biggest mystery of all is the category one cups having lives of their own. A phenomenon that can only happen at night. That no one has ever seen with their own eyes. And that no one feels responsible for: the cups are wandering between kitchens. Or completely vanish for a few weeks, just to re-appear suddenly and unexpectedly.

An example: my Sun PLC (Product Life Cycle) cup. How am I supposed to ever implement and improve our product life cycle process without this cup? But it tends to vanish - and only reappear after some pertinent information from employees. Or: the java cups seem to have a great affinity to the developers' coffee kitchen (hint, hint!) leaving their ground floor "home kitchen". While the Apple cup is making sudden appearances in the project managers' kitchen.

And with that, I close the year with staggered amazement about one of censhare's last mysteries. Should I have a lot of ample time next year, I'm planning to investigate the phenomenon with means of nature science. I have this idea of radioactive markers...

Manuel Weiss

Manuel Weiss is censhare’s Director Operations, which means that he is responsible for what most people don’t really like: processes. The latter, however, are a genuine passion for Manuel Weiss – one that he loves so much that his penchant manages to enthuse others, in spite of the topics involved. He has been with censhare since 2010 and has already changed and set a lot in motion. A native of Munich, he looks back on many years of experience with renowned IT companies, and is the father of three charming daughters.

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