Why go only 2 people but hand soap at work?

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15 or do women using a loo. Work provides a wall dispenser of swarfega type soap so we want nice hand wash, we buy it. Only two of us buy it. It’s not expensive but it gives me the rage. What can I do to get over myself? Accept people are just entitled and think “someone else does it”

If there’s soap provided I wouldn’t think to buy my own “nice” soap and I would think it a little odd that others would choose to do so. But each to their own...

I’d keep my naice in my desk or hide it somewhere in the loos 😂 it would give me the rage too.

I'd find it annoying & I'm petty so would stop buying it. Instead I would keep a tiny bottle of travel sized hand wash in my bag.

naice soap

But there’s soap already there??!

Do they know that you buy it and work don't provide it?

At a former office I worked in there was sanitary protection, hand cream and hair spray basket in the ladies for those who were caught short. There was a note on the basket that you could give items or monetary contributions to a particular person in the office.

Do your colleagues know you buy it? I wouldn't assume that if I saw it in the work loos.

Ah, just read that work provides soap dispenser but you buy nicer stuff separately. Not everyone cares. Just keep the nicer soap in your bag/at your desk.

People do this at my work. I think it's an odd thing to do. I just use the stuff from the dispenser.

1. Ask if people want to contribute £1 a month (or what ever it costs) to buy soap.

1. Ask company to provide something nicer.

1. Leave yours in your bag/desk and take it in with you.

I used to work in a large office which provided standard liquid soap from a dispenser. One lady who I didnt work with placed some nice soap in the loos with a label attached. The label read

' Please do not use as if free'

Start a kitty or keep it in your bag

Eh? Maybe they just use the soap already provided or assume the work has provided the other soap.

Why do you need a different soap

I learnt my lesson after taking Fairy liquid into the work kitchen once as literally nothing was provided, everyone would just clean their dishes under hot water (gross). It was gone by the end of the week and no one bought any more. A tiny first world problem that gave me the rage!

Are the others using your soap?

Do the other women know that they can use it or do they assume it's not for them?

Where I work someone has bought some hand wash and hand cream. I don't use it. I've never assumed it was for everyone to use. I'm happy with the soap from the dispenser.

Put a small dish next to it for odd change towards re buying or a note saying bring in your unwanted smellies.

Empty one of the little alcohol gel pump dispensers and fill with soap, and clip to your belt! I do this with my moisturiser at work

How are people supposed to know it's a personal product? I'd assume the wall dispenser was broken/empty and use your soap. The only time I've known of someone bringing in their own products was a member of staff with eczema who brought in a prescription bottle of diprobase.

You expecting people to know whose soap it is and why without being told.

Either, stop taking in soap, make an announcement or put a label on it.

I used to do the same as the cheap dispenser soap dried my hands out. I used to buy it from the pound shop, so I didn’t really bother that I was the only one buying if.

Well I managed to make it past all the typos and have concluded you can't rage over soap you choose to buy out of pocket when free soap is available. HTH.

Don't worry about it. According to MN a lot of people don't wash their hands after using the loo anyway.

I buy naice hand soap because the stuff in the loos is incredibly drying. I used it for the first few weeks at work but got sore, chapped hands and damaged cuticles (despite using hand cream). So I understand why some people wouldn’t be happy with what’s on offer.

Fortunately there are only three of us using that particular sink and we share a lot of office things, so it works out fine. I feel your pain though OP.

Maybe everyone else just uses the soap provided? If the company is providing swarfega, you must be doing a very mucky job or require a high level of cleaning, so perhaps your nice soap isn't up to the job?