To think you should wash up at work...

[ThreeMoreDaysTillFriday]

I work 3 days a week in one office and 2 in another.

Office a - has cleaners everyday (who don't do dishes) and it is always spotless because everyone y'know. Washes up!

Office b - has a cleaner in once a week (who does do dishes) and yet from one cleaning day to the next (fri-fri) every single thing is left to pile up. Week old food caked plates. Half drunk cups of tea growing mould. Soup bowls with an inch left. It's fucking disgusting. These people think it's acceptable and it's starting to piss me off that everytime I go in the place stinks of rotten food and that if clients are in (I have my own plates, cup, cutlery in my drawer) I have to wade through the debris to find a couple of cups that are salvageable enough to clean.

I have previously spoken to the owner and asked for an email to go round which it did but everyone ignored it. Wibu to tell them all they are manky hits when I next refuse to make a coffee for a client. Or take pictures and post them on the company FB page (joke!)

But seriously wibu to ask them again to clean their own fucking dishes. I am senior to them and I really am fed up!

I work in an office. One of our consultants doesn't know how to clean up. he leaves his dirty cutlery and pots in the sink, but it's MY job to clean them up, not the cleaner. I hate touching wet cutlery and pots - especially when someone else has touched them or used them. I think its vile! put it in the fucking dishwasher! he leaves the kitchen a mess with crumbs then tries to get the secretaries in trouble for leaving heaters on.
He's a dick. I'm not employed to be a cleaner but I have to clean up other people's mess. if it was DC i wouldn't be bothered, but this man is 63, I'm 20! He should know to clear up - this isn't his firm to be so messy IN!

We had this issue too.

But solved it by removing any extra crockery from the cupboards.

We had 12 people in the office (although myself & my colleague used our own & kept them in our locked desk), so we only had 10 cups, 10 plates etc.

So, if you were a lazy arse and didn't bother washing you cup on Monday, you had to wash it on Tuesday or you weren't having your coffee.

Worked perfectly!!

And the "posh cups" for visitors were locked in the stationary cupboard!

We have this problem at work with a few lazy people leaving stuff dirty as they know the cleaner can't stand leaving the kitchen messy and does it for them, even though she isn't supposed to.

After lots of polite reminders and requests I've lost patience and sent round an email saying everyone has three choices
a) wash up their stuff
b) bring in their own disposable cups etc if they don't want to wash up
c) leave their dirty stuff around and I will confiscate it for a week.

i liken it to when you're on holiday. You have cleaners, but it's rude to have the cleaners clean up your mucky plates and water all over the tiled floors - you just don't leave it for the cleaners to do - it makes their job harder and makes you look like an arse.
always clean up after yourself. I don't like touching dirty plates but thats life.
just put your shit in the dishwasher. simple!!!

we have a dishwasher where I work and people are too lazy to empty it. I often empty it and refill it. More than once colleagues have asked why I am doing it! Maybe because I want a clean cup or don't like mice???

What I find strange is that I've worked in offices for 30 years and this never happened where I've worked before. Only in the place where I've worked for the last 4 years.

That's gross. We have a small office, and a dishwashing rota which includes all the people who have hot drinks during the day. We didn't used to have a dishwasher but the standard of washing up was pretty poor.

Send out an email and post signs, anything left unwashed by X will be thrown out. Then do it.

I worked in one place that got so bad, the head threw EVERYTHING away and locked up the hot drink making supplies and crockery for visitors in a cupboard that his battleaxe secretary had the key to. There was a water cooler with paper cups. Beyond that, you had to bring it all in and the secretary would throw it away if you left it.

Solved the problem fast.

With us, it's one consultant that fails to do it. When he trained, the office juniors did everything. But he complains about everything. He screams at me for nothing and he's not even my boss.
in the kitchen, he leaves his cake crumbs all over and has the audacity to have a go at me for leaving ONE noodle crumb. and it wasn't even me - I don't eat noodles. anymore
also tries to get us in trouble for the heaters - the building is freezing.
he's an adiot - think he rules the place. he's annoying everyone and doing everything wrong - it only started with the dishwasher and not doing what he's told. an email was sent and a very passive agressive note by yours truely on the wall. Still doesn't listen.

Same in our work place. I have my own utensils and wash and put away as I go.
As embarrassing as it is its not your fault your colleagues don't know how to clean up.
My solution was to get take out coffee to order before a meeting.

I've come to realise that workplaces are magnets for the most disgusting, downright dirty scumbags of society.

And don't get me started on the toilets. You wouldn't believe the vomit inducing shit I've seen (no pun intended).

Hopefully women's toilets fare better than men's!