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Not sure of the best place to put this, so thought I'd stick it here, as it deals with frustration & work problems.
The kitchen at work is driving me crazy.
The office cleaners clean the surfaces, mop the floor & empty the bins every morning. Everything else is up to us. We do have some visitors to the building, but anyone entering has to be signed in (there is patient-specific information here)so they aren't exactly roaming about unaccompanied.
So why does the kitchen get into such a state?
Someone has a habit of leaving mugs with the detritus of Cup-A-Soup on the edge of the sink, filled with soapy water. This is presumably "leaving it to soak", but the mug will stay there for days. Other people subsequently decide it’s a repository for dirty teaspoons. I eventually get hacked off & wash them all up – in the mean time people resort to using plastic forks to make tea/ coffee because there is no clean cutlery.
Other people leave their dirty teaspoons on the clean draining board. How can that possibly be justified in a communal kitchen?
I admit I am frothing at the mouth about this, but its just NOT RIGHT. I can't think how to address it without threatening to install CCTV.
Below is the picture & text of a notice I have suggested the Head of HR puts up in the kitchen. Its far more polite than my feelings.
RECOGNISE ANYTHING?
We are all responsible for the state of the kitchen.
- Every time you do not wash up a spoon, a knife, a fork, a mug.
- Every time you leave bits of your lunch in the sink.
- Every time you use a piece of paper towel & don't throw it in the bin.
- Every time you leave a dirty spoon on a clean draining board.
You Are Asking Your Colleagues To Clean Up After You.
The cleaning staff DO NOT do our washing up
Please show some consideration. We are only asking that you do what you would do at home.
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