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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Work Breakrooms/Kitchens
Why are work kitchens so icky? There are so many things about them that gross me out and I know I'm not alone in this! I just went to heat my lunch and the papertowels were all wet around the edge where someone with wet hands grabbed the whole roll to tear off what they needed.....I know it's just water but I don't want a wet papertowel!!!!!
What bugs you/grosses you out the most about your work kitchen?
Re: Work Breakrooms/Kitchens
my office was previously in an old house that had been a bed and breakfast so it had a full (almost commercial size) kitchen. I loved it and surprisingly everyone kept it really tidy.
It had a dishwasher so that helped, but mostly I think b/c it was set up like someone's home everyone just knew how to keep it clean.
Our new building has more of a breakroom set up and no one EVER does their dishes (coffee mugs mostly). It's like they don't know how to hand wash or better yet, bring a travel mug daily and just take it home to wash.
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Tara & Ian . 4/24/2008 . The Kahala Planning . Married
This!!! If we didn't have TWO dishwashers here I don't know what would happen *gasp*
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People who use the microwave, don't cover their food and then when it explodes/splatters, don't clean it up! UGH! It's a real problem in our office and has led to nasty notes being left on it randomly.
And people who place their dishes into the sick rather than the dishwasher. It amazes me...how do they think they get into the dishwasher and cleaned? We have a parttime cleaning crew that comes MWF, so yeah, it's other staff members who do it. Boo!
We have two fully outfitted kitchens in our building for 25 employees, all women. But still, the small majority that our slobs make it a problem for the rest of us.
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My current workplace isn't so bad, mostly because it's staffed by a bunch of librarians who are also very...how do I put this...they're excessively aware of real and implied regulations. If you put a teaspoon is out of place, someone will be hovering over your shoulder going, "That's not how it goes!!!" LOL I'm as neurotic as the rest of them about organization, but when it comes to whose mug goes where on the shelf, I really couldn't care less...but a lot of them get very annoyed if the status quo is interrupted!
My last place though...whew! Awful. Just awful. The real estate agents were the worst. Not only were they lazy and careless, but they were very egocentric and thus believed that tidying up a kitchen was below their rank at work ("Why should I have to wash the cup? I'm bringing in the money, that's not my job!" "Uh, because you used it and then left coffee sitting in it for three days, asshat.").
Yeah, this one bums me out because I'm usually in a rush at lunch and I either have to take the time to clean up someone else's splattered mess in the microwave or just put my food on top of it (which can lead to getting said splattered mess on my food dish and then possibly on me).
We have a mini kitchen in our office so that we don`t have to go to the cafeteria to heat things up etc. We also have dishes and utensils that we can all use. This all seemed great until abotu two weeks in I realized that the dish cloth was never washed. EVER!!! Can you imagine how many germs are being spread all over the dishes - blech!!!
So I bring my own dishes for lunch and then bring them home to wash them to avoid germ-ville.
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At my last job, someone used the dish sponge to clean the countertop and I guess in and around the sink area with 409, but did not rinse the 409 off the sponge. I picked up the sponge to wash my mug and my hands got that sort of slimy feeling when you touch bleach or a really strong cleaner. It also reeked of 409. Ugh. I brought in my own sponge after that and tried to wash my dishes when no one was looking
In my current office, there has been the same container of salad with blueberries and goat cheese in the fridge for almost 3 weeks! Scary thing is, the salad still looks OK. The greens are still green, the blueberries look fine, etc. I'm only there for 2 more days so I haven't said anything... maybe I should?
The microwave thing grosses me out, too. I really don't understand how your lunch can explode all over the place, and you just walk away. Do they think the lunchroom fairies come and clean it up?
Bu, actually, our biggest problem is people taking other people's lunches. Whole lunches disappear, and sometimes just parts of lunches. One time, a teacher had a container of 7 meatballs leftover from dinner the night before that she was going to eat for lunch. When lunchtime came, there were only three! Come on....who eats just part of a someone else's lunch, then puts the rest back!?! Another teacher had two dozen eggs in the fridge to make green eggs and ham for the kindergartners. A few were missing by the afternoon. I'd like to have been there when whoever took them cracked them open, expecting hard boiled eggs and got a mess instead!