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Dirty Office
Aug 12, 2009
I emerged from my cube this afternoon to the kitchenette and found a puddle of coffee eight inches long by four inches wide sitting between the sink and coffee maker. I then looked down to realize there was a trail of coffee drips on the floor from the sink to where the fake tile meets the carpet of the office area. I kind of wanted to sigh and really wanted to leave a note asking if the guilty party was waiting for his/her mom to come along and clean up after him/her. But instead I grabbed a paper towel and cleaned it up. I just can't figure out how an office full of adults in a professional (ok, sometimes semi-professional) environment can make such a mess and then just walk away.
I headed next to the men's room and when I opened the door the floor was littered with five or six paper towels. I had a similar thought and then grabbed a paper towel to pick up the others which had been left by others. Then I saw something that cracked me up, something which was well overdue.
The soap in the men's room is never full. We have three sinks and a soap dispenser at each, the kind where the nozzle is above the counter top while the soap receptacle is fastened below. If you pump hard enough for eight times or so you can get a sufficient amount to wash your hands...sometimes. This afternoon two of the three empty bottles were sitting on the counter top essentially saying "Fill Me!!". Out of some dumb sense of curiosity I have I peered under the counter top and found that the soap dispenser on the right didn't have a tube running from the dispenser to the bottom of the tub which holds the soap. No wonder that one never works, it isn't even connected! It just amazes me that between my fortune 500 company and the very large firm which manages our building we can't get a reasonable amount of soap in the restroom.
I've never been more excited to return to work. I can't wait to see the soap status tomorrow. Obviously that is sarcasm but I admit there is a bit of a curiosity in seeing if we will finally have a reasonable amount of soap.
In our kitchen at work we have to bribe the cleaning staff to leave paper towels from the bathroom because the company is too cheap to buy their own.
Oh did I mention that people smear boogers on the wall by the urinals? YEah that's enough to make you throw-up.
GROWN ADULTS SMEAR BOOGERS ON THE WALLS???!?!!?!?!? I am a little shocked and disgusted can you tell?? I don't even remember boogers smeared on dorm room walls and everything happens in dorms. I was going to complain about co-workers who leave dirty dishes in the sink waiting for someone to wash them and agree with the paper towels not making it in the waste basket, but the booger thing. . .
Wow, luckily we have grown past the booger stage at my office (though there is a man who leans his forearm against the wall in front of the urinal, pretty odd in it's own way).
The dispensers were filled Thursday though there was still no tube to bring the soap from the basin to the dispenser in the one.
I don't know if it is related but today there were no lights over the urinals. I guess if we get soap we have to conserve in some other ways?!?
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Wouldn't the same people who are responsible for ensuring there is toilet paper be responsible for filling the soap dispensers? The latter is just as important if you need the former.