But what if people you regularly deal with couldn't get their coffee?

let them suffer
Probably give them amphetamines or something instead in micro doses

on an unironic level, i want caffeine consumption to be significantly curbed to what i would call moderate. An espressos worth of caffeine a day is ok, any more and you should STOP

Only a true emergency warrants any more, else life is horribly arranged. I think minute/exact clock based small scale events are in error and should not exist.

I want to go off on a tangent here. I think my school handled being on time fantastically when i was young -they slowly got rid of the school bell, a more than second half of my school time we had no school bell. The effect this had on everyone was pleasant, and i don't know that there would've been a single student or teacher that preferred the school bell. It has a very noticable and clear effect. Class didn't generally end later, because a new class would begin soon, but it had the ability to end sooner.