To put a sign up at work

[Notmymug]

Telling my colleagues to load the fucking dishwasher properly

[Etymology23]

Our work won’t let us have a kettle never mind a dishwasher - perhaps to prevent incidents like this. Agree that allthedogs suggestion is good :)

[Hellywelly10]

There's always a creme egg cup in every workplace.

[LipstickHandbagCoffee]

Yes,it’s a truism.there is a creme egg cup in most workplaces

[SuspiciouslyFamiliar1]

We have a mini egg mug (these mugs look familiar, we definitely have at least 3 of them but not sure if it is actually my work). DS got his for easter last year so they definitely still do them.

What part of the UK are you from @Notmymug?

[Gazelda]

We've got a creme egg cup. And about 30 giant Sports Direct mugs. 7 million teaspoons and 1 soup spoon.
Someone keeps switching the dishwasher off at the wall, so you think you've loaded it and set it to go at the end of the day but the grimy mugs are still there to greet you when you come in the next day and want a quick cuppa while you wait the 30mins for the desktop to warm up.

[LadyLoveYourWhat]

We've finally been given a dishwasher at work, it's got a flat basket, is only for cups and the cycle is only 90 seconds long, so you can just go and chuck your cup in on its own and wait until it's done. It's ace, it hasn't quite changed my life, but I can count the disposable cups I've used this year on one hand

[Notmymug]

@SuspiciouslyFamiliar1 I am in the south east, I think you would recognise the various offending mugs if you worked here and were brave enough to admit it

[ADarkandStormyKnight]

What about the staff FRIDGE?

Out of date food, forgotten lunches in tupperware, 15 tubs of buttery spread with no names on....

[Penners99]

At my work a notice went up saying that all dirty cups left on a Friday afternoon would be binned. Notice ignored = 30+ cups binned!

[swivelchair]

We've finally been given a dishwasher at work, it's got a flat basket, is only for cups and the cycle is only 90 seconds long, so you can just go and chuck your cup in on its own and wait until it's done

OMG - I'm going to go looking for that, that's a fantastic idea (heads off to google pub/restaurant supply stores)

[LakieLady]

Dishwasher use at my workplace is ok, but the twats who make real coffee using cafetieres leave the most god-awful mess. You find coffee spilled all over the worktop, dirty cafetieres dumped on the sides, when they do bother washing them up they leave wet grounds scattered everywhere and never rinse the sink.

But none of that is as bad as the phantom shitter, who never opens the window so the stench permeates the whole floor of the building and leaves skiddies all over the lav.

[IWantMyHatBack]

HEAF? what is heaf?? That's not even a word!

[IWantMyHatBack]

We have unisex toilets at work now. The stink, the piss on the seats, the skid marks.

Never happened before. It's revolting

[OwlinaTree]

I'm the self appointed washing up monitor at my work! I load and put on the machine/unload and put away most mornings when I arrive and the same at lunchtime and the end of the day if I'm not rushing out. I've just accepted that basically no one else does it so I've made peace with it and it gives me a 5 minute brain break.

I throw stuff away that is chipped/stained all the time though - no one has missed anything yet...

[OwlinaTree]

When the office manager was off sick i took the tea towels home to wash each weekend too!

[Unescorted]

We have the glass washer type dishwashers.....now the cleaner spends her days scrubbing the mugs before putting them through a machine that is designed to clean pint pots not cups with 3day old tea in. The night cleaners are supposed to collect abandoned mugs but they prefer to sit in the nice clean kitchen.

Our fridge has 2 parts...milk side and food side. The milk side is date ordered. The food side is emptied every Friday. Anything wrapped in a carrier bag or leaking gets thrown out on the day. I work in a very good hygienic aware building.....we share with another company.

They also glare at you if you don't sing happy birthday twice while washing your hands. When I visit any of our other offices they think I have developed a compulsion.

[PlumsGalore]

I think every reasonable sized building is the same, mine is. It's as though people regress or refuse to do their tiny part, the kitchen and fridge is like a student house.

I also kept my lovely china mug and teaspoon clean on my desk , washed my own only, refused drinks off others and made my own. My excuse was I didn't like the cheap company supplied tea and preferred my Yorkshire Gold.

[maddiemookins16mum]

I once put a sign on our work fridge saying 'watch out there's a Humphrey about'....as somebody kept stealing my milk (that I'd purchased to take home). I got pulled up by our People Team (HR as everyday folk call it). In fairness, I took their point about it being PA but it was just soooo annoying and was happening several times a week.

[maddiemookins16mum]

OP, do you work for a company that specialises in holidays (and other stuff) for the 'older generation'?

[Lethaldrizzle]

Lakielady - 'the twats who drink real coffee' is that all real coffee drinkers or just the ones in your work place

[dudsville]

A sign well definitely help.

People regress at work. Don't rely on them for a clean environment.

[Icequeen01]

As mentioned down thread I work in a school where teachers are the worst culprits. I will never forget the time that one of the teachers came to me on the first day back from the summer holidays holding 3 mouldy green mugs. She stood there holding them and said in a stupid squeaky childish voice "Icequeeeeeeeeen, what shall I do with these?" My face must have said it all to which she replied "Someone's come back in a bad mood!" 😡

[SuspiciouslyFamiliar1]

Not my work then 😊. Tbh I've never seen our dishwasher look like that and our toilets are clean. Funny how quite a few of those mugs are the same though!

[notacooldad]

When I worked in Child Protection somebody put a ' your mother doesn't work here' sign up. Massive backfire because someone's mother did work there as well as their aunty. It was a rather family led team and I have no idea how 3 members were allowed to work on the same team for a local authority!

[notacooldad]

. Funny how quite a few of those mugs are the same though

Not really, they are just generic mugs. I have some of the same mugs as work at home. They are just bought from same sort of places, usually ASDA, the Range, Tesco and the like.