![]() ![]() Set in a fictitious animated roastery, players will solve coffee-themed puzzles to help bags of Eight O’Clock “escape the roastery.” The Great Coffee Break will run from June 17 th to August 11 th, 2018, and eight people will win the grand prize: free groceries for a year.* ![]() Overall Rating: ****.Eight O’Clock Coffee, America’s original gourmet coffee, today announces the release of The Great Coffee Break: a digital escape room game that people can play for the chance to win a year of free groceries! The Great Coffee Break is the first Augmented Reality-triggered digital game designed by Escape the Room and can be launched by scanning any Eight O’Clock Coffee package with the Shazam app – or by going directly to. IÃÂll get back to you on that after I go get some coffee. It ends with a Centronesque ÃÂWhat would YOU do?àending. The message of wasted time is undercut by the fact that the boss is portrayed as such a control freak with no sympathy for the workerÃÂs position, so that even though the workers are essentially schmoozing on company time, you take their side just to thwart that boss. This management training film is a lot of fun, with a boss you love to hate and workers who gleefully get as much out of their coffee breaks as possible. Jim solves the problem by using his 10 minutes to get coffee with a buddy, along with a few extra minutes to have a cigarette and go to the bathroom. Not considered is the fact that the workers seem to have to leave the building entirely and patronize a local diner with table service in order to get coffee, something that probably takes a lot more time than 10 minutes. The boss especially has a problem with women, lambasting them for spending time in the ladiesàroom touching up their appearances (though IÃÂll bet if any of the women failed to do this, theyÃÂd be written up for poor appearance). Since Jim is the personnel manager, the boss hands the problem off to him, demanding that he make the workers limit their breaks to 10 minutes on the nose, or else! To intimidate Jim more, he gives him a ÃÂgiftàof an hourglass that measures 10 minutes and orders him to use it twice a day at coffee break time while he spends exactly 10 minutes thinking of the solution to the problem. His boss is upset about how workers find a way to tack on lots of extra minutes to their coffee breaks with such unnecessary activities as talking, smoking, going to the bathroom, and, oh yeah, getting coffee. It doesnÂt occur to Al that his whiny conversation with Joe is even more of a waste of company time than the time his employees (male or female) spend on their breaks. Al gives Joe a big hourglass that lasts for ten minutes and tells him to use that time twice a day to think about what can be done. ![]() The film ends as Al, in typical boss style, dumps the responsibility for the companyÂs coffee break problem on Joe. Maybe if the women workers were given a chance to get ahead like the men and have some real responsibilities they wouldnÂt be spending so much time in the Ladies Room. But the women workers know that they have dead-end jobs with no chance for advancement, so why should they knock themselves out for nothing? Their rebellion against the demeaning way they're treated in the workplace is their way of asserting their humanity. The womenÂs disregard for company routines has a subversive quality that angers and bewilders the boss. The women mystify the men by doing all the Âcountless little adjustments known only to a woman! This film is much harder on women workers taking coffee breaks than it is on the men. ÂTheir ten minutes is gone with a cigarette and putting on a new face! HarryÂs Diner or the WaldorfÂit all the same, you never know who might be there! After yakking away in the company canteen and spreading all kinds of vicious rumors, ÂWhere do they go on the way back to the office? You guessed it! The powder room again! Then we find out whatÂs really bothering the bossÂÂLet me consider one of my pet peeves: women! Of course they all have to stop by the powder room! We see a film montage of women workers in the ladies lounge putting on make-up, pulling down their girdles and smoothing their stockings. His associate Joe points out the good aspects of coffee breaksÂit gives workers a chance to get to know each other and makes them more efficient. A 1950Âs film in which Al, the boss, complains about the length of time that employees take on coffee breaks. ![]()
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