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To put a sign up at work

103 replies

Notmymug · 15/03/2018 20:38

Telling my colleagues to load the fucking dishwasher properly Angry

To put a sign up at work
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ineedwine99 · 15/03/2018 21:10

I send out a snotty email, no dishwasher but people leave food splats all over the microwaves and bits of food in the sink from washing up. Sick of seeing it and the poor cleaners end up sorting it even though they aren’t supposed to. Vom.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 15/03/2018 21:13

Is everyone on this thread from the same workplace? Easter Grin

Sprogletsmuvva · 15/03/2018 21:15

Oh yeah, and John sees it as his personal duty to fill the kettle up to the brim each morning (even though we have a separate jug). As each person makes their own drink, by the time it gets to the last person the same water has been boiled at least 4 times (not disgusting, true, but doesn’t help the taste of tea).

Flupi · 15/03/2018 21:16

Take a flask and have nothing to do with the kitchen.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 15/03/2018 21:17

No jug in our work.itd become a jug of gloom,no doubt it’d get stained & hairy
Then discarded at sink side
That brings me to the cutlery & plate Heafers. Heaf stuff on worktop,pretend not to see it

Shadow666 · 15/03/2018 21:18

Stack it properly, then take a photo, then print out the photo and display it with a sign saying “This is how you stack a dishwasher!”

We had a meeting the other day and a coworker and I were discussing the sign he made and it was that ignored it. We have a strong suspect but she is leaving soon and wasn’t at the meeting.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 15/03/2018 21:19

If I saw a photo and sign,I’d heaf it in the bin.hidden under other stuff

BrutusMcDogface · 15/03/2018 21:22

What does "heaf" mean?!

Are the cups clean? If so, what's the problem?! Wink

Wakeuptortoise · 15/03/2018 21:25

Don't the cleaners do it? They did at my former workplace. Mind you not very well and a member of staff reckoned they cleaned everything with the same dishcloth, toilets and kitchenette. 🤢

Notmymug · 15/03/2018 21:32

Brutus this is all dirty, no way is that going to come out clean stacked like that. The staff kitchen is usually pretty grim, not sure why normal rules of cleanliness don’t apply at work.

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Nicketynac · 15/03/2018 21:35

I made a sign in work once. I used to be normal but they broke me.

Notmymug · 15/03/2018 21:35

tortoise cleaners don’t do the dishwasher, barely do the toilets either Hmm

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UterusUterusGhali · 15/03/2018 21:39

Every workplace has that Crunchy mug. Fact.

Easter egg mugs always end up at work ime.

Maybe print a wiki how page on how to load a dishwasher.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 15/03/2018 21:41

Heaf, =chuck,sling, throw out

Tistheseason17 · 15/03/2018 21:47

At our place, people think the fairies do the dishwasher....

QueenDramaLlama · 15/03/2018 21:49

At first I saw a higgledy mess but on closer inspection in seems they are all angled downwards and over a gap meaning that the water can get in and wash them.

PrimalLass · 15/03/2018 21:50

This is how my DP stacks the dishwasher. One day I will brain him with a frying pan and be let off.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 15/03/2018 21:54

I could run a master class in stacking dishwasher,maximising every mm of space

dayandnightshapes · 15/03/2018 22:03

At least they put it in the dishwasher.... can't say the same at my work

Troels · 15/03/2018 22:03

That looks like my Dh's dishwasher skills. I reload it and keep telling him there are not little people inside the dishwasher running about scrubbing stuff, it all has to face down. I'm sicks of puddles of water in ours collected in cups, bowls, pans.

dishesandsigns · 15/03/2018 22:04

Obviously I have namechanged

I worked for a completely weird company where the CEO would have these monthly meetings which everyone would attend and he would say he was communicating about the business but...

Really what he relished was for him to hold the floor and to have a moan and point out how dirty people were, how his children could use toilets better than staff could, once he even mentioned bodily fluids in the female toilets Angry

He would go on and on about the dishwasher and get upset if it had to be serviced and blame poor stacking.

Some of the office staff greased up to him by telling on people sneakily and he would do another all staff meeting.

Meanwhile he (and the Finance Department) were so so cheap that the cleaners were shocking, really bad, they wouldn't clean and I kid you not they would not pay for sanitary products to be removed.

There was nowhere to put soiled sanitary products. And guess what you only realised this when you started and say need to change your products with a period on.

Also I kid you not they once asked for contributions to sanitary and toiletries (liquid soap) for the women's toilets. The men didn't have to pay for their liquid soap.

I used toilets outside of the building.

Oh and this CEO would moan but he was a real mess, always poorly presented and big arm pit sweat marks.

I have never met someone so unaware of themselves.

There are more bizarre stories.

Oh and people did used to bike to this office but guess what there were no showers at all.

AdaColeman · 15/03/2018 22:06

That's what your next staff training day should be, How to Build a Team & Load a Dishwasher.

Trills · 15/03/2018 22:08

I didn't realise easter egg mugs had been a thing since the 90s - is tht mug 20 years old? It could be a collectors item.

MeadowHay · 15/03/2018 22:13

Trills What? We have at least three at home, and the oldest is only maybe 3 years old max given our age/how long we've been living together as a couple. I love a free mug, me.

turnipfarmers · 15/03/2018 22:19

That's my yellow mug Shock