A washing up rota at work. I don’t use anything.

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Someone had set up a washing up rota at work and I don’t use a single item. Am I being unreasonable by saying no?

Nope. You are not at work to waste time doing other people’s dirty dishes. It’s a slippery slope to a cleaning toilets rota or a collecting/taking out the rubbish rota.

It isn't a petty point of principle. The OP has been told to help clean up a mess that is nothing to do with her.

It's the equivalent of putting all the staff on a rota to clean the coffee machine in the meeting room when they only drink tea and don't go to meetings.

A rota to wash up at work? It's not a house share with a chore rota.

People need to take responsibility for washing their own mugs/plates/cutlery at work.

Who organised it? Was it a team member or management? I’d ask them to point out where in your contract does it state you do that. People are adults and can wash their own things.

I was put on a tea/coffee making rota at a previous job. I didn't drink either so I didn't benefit from it when it was other people's turn. So I made all the coffee's the same colour as the tea and I was very swiftly removed from the rota.

If you don't want to be on the rota, do an incredibly bad job the first couple of times and see if that works. Leave bubbles in all the mugs so everything tastes horrible perhaps.

No where in my contract states that I need to take part in a washing up rota. I get paid to do my job. The lazy people can wash their own things.

Why can't grown adults wash their own things.

Or the lazy shits who couldn’t be arsed to wash up after themselves could just do it? Instead of OP?

Yes this. Plus every plate/mug/ dish should be sharpied (or use nail varnish) with owner’s initials.
Anything left will be put (unwashed) in a cardboard box. After a week it will be thrown out.

Yanbu. Everyone should wash up their own stuff.

Please stop!

Then the lazy shits would only use mugs with someone elses initials instead. Why would they care.

Oohso many mumsnetters too posh to wash a few cups! Never mind, the cleaner will do it even though its probably not her job to clean up after individuals either.

Agree.

I kept my mug in my drawer or took it home if I was going on leave. We didn’t have space for loads of stuff anyway.

Or rather you are too lazy to clean up after yourself? Easier to let someone else do it for you.

Why can't everyone just do their own? This is what we do at work.

Same thing happened to me. People leaving the sink full of mouldy cups and bowls. I wouldn't do it.

I’m not too posh, I wash my own. I’m not paid to clean up after all the others who think they are too good to wash dishes. Why the hell should I? I’m not their mother!

Said by someone who probably uses stuff and leaves it for others to clean up. Bollocks is being expected to skivy after other staff anything to do with teamwork. In fact it’s the culprits who leave their dishes unwashed who aren’t the team players. I’m paid to look after the residents in my care NOT clean up after lazy staff who then bleat about teamwork when they get pulled up for it.

Every one else will probably ignore the rota else the team wouldn’t be in the position where a rota is necessary. The same people who roll their sleeves up and do it now will continue to do so and those who create the mess will carry on. I wouldn’t worry about it.

Can we have a diagram of the salad with scale please

Every should wash their own.

There's plenty of ways to be a team player & this ain't one.

No, I just like to be helpful and not the office bore who thinks washing a few cups is a hardship.
Same way I pay into the tea fund when I don't drink tea. And pay into a flower whip round when its a staff member I don't particularly care for. I like my workspace to be supportive, free from aggravation and a nice place in which to spend many hours of my life. It's nice to be nice as they say.