Office Kitchen Rant

[SketchMaster]

Most of the places I've worked have had dishwashers in the lunch room. Hell, I used to work IT for a medium sized company and we had our own break room complete with dishwasher. It was a small enough team that if anyone was caught leaving dishes in the sink they got hell for it by the rest of the group.

The place I work now has a large break room on each floor with toaster ovens, microwaves, Vita-mix blenders and ample seating. They do empty the fridges out every other Friday and they will throw EVERYTHING out, even ketchup. The dishes are provided by the company, but it's mostly the coffee cups that stack up in the sink and maybe the odd bowl crusted over with oatmeal.

Break rooms are great, sadly, all it takes is a handful of people who are lazy/self entitled and assume that there is a person that gets paid to do the dishes every night regardless of the signs that say otherwise.

 

[sze5003]

We don't have a dishwasher just a tiny ass sink and for a big company that is really lame. I hate when people just stop in and leave their cup soaking with whatever in the kitchen for hours. Wash that crap you have water and soap right there.
If I ever brought a container with food after I was done eating I would wash it and dry it immediately and then put it in my bag. Now I just keep my lunch in my bag by my desk and only go to the kitchen to get coffee in the morning.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

This was my work fridge a while back.

 

[alkemyst]

Things should never be left in a sink in any kind of shared living arrangement. You clean up as you go. At one workplace there was a sign, "Leaving your mug is fine, throwing away a mug is fine" or something like that. The worse are those that leave their mug dead center of the sink instead of at least moving it to the corner.

For you oatmeal in the cup and other fucked up individuals, filling your cup with water and microwaving for 30secs or so makes it easier to clean.

 

[SketchMaster]

This was my work fridge a while back.

You win.

 

[sze5003]

Yea that pic is gross. I dunno how anyone put any food in there.

 

[NetWareHead]

WE did the same thing at my job. We have a kitxhen that is fully stocked with 2 fridges, 2 microwaves, dishwasher and sink along with ceramic plates, dishes, mugs, glasses and flatware. The owner of the company is so sick of seeing people pile shit into the sink that at the end of the business day he goes to the cafeteria and throws away anything in the sink or on the counter. Ceramic dishes, mugs, flatware, tupperware anything and everything. People are supposed to wash their own stuff and run the dishwasher but in reality it just sits in the sink forever. We are down to about 3 dishes from a full set. People are frickin lazy slobs is what it boils down to.

 

[alkemyst]

WE did the same thing at my job. We have a kitxhen that is fully stocked with 2 fridges, 2 microwaves, dishwasher and sink along with ceramic plates, dishes, mugs, glasses and flatware. The owner of the company is so sick of seeing people pile shit into the sink that at the end of the business day he goes to the cafeteria and throws away anything in the sink or on the counter. Ceramic dishes, mugs, flatware, tupperware anything and everything. People are supposed to wash their own stuff and run the dishwasher but in reality it just sits in the sink forever. We are down to about 3 dishes from a full set. People are frickin lazy slobs is what it boils down to.

you really didn't. You are posting more lately though.

 

[ultimatebob]

Do you have problems with people forgetting to turn off the coffee pot as well? That's a big one where I work.

I don't get why they just don't put timers on them, but wadda I know.

 

[rudeguy]

Do you have problems with people forgetting to turn off the coffee pot as well? That's a big one where I work.

I don't get why they just don't put timers on them, but wadda I know.

We cook a pot or so a week. It happens. Our coffee vendor takes care of it for us though. He's a cool guy.

I refuse to take part in the office kitchen drama. I don't use dishes here just to avoid it. I use the disposable coffee cups so I don't have to worry about mugs, use disposable silverware for lunch and I never throw anything away in the kitchen trash. Those people will take a bag of garbage out of the trash can, set it by the door, then leave it there until the weekend when the cleaning crew comes. Really?

Its chick shit that I refuse to partake in.

 

[NetWareHead]

you really didn't. You are posting more lately though.

I didnt what?