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7 things that annoy me about shared workplace kitchens

September 9, 2011 by Jen

The cutlery drawer. Day 283/365.

Friday, 2 September 2011, Day 283/365.

Prakky recently wrote about seven technological annoyances. This is its sister post for seven things that annoy me about shared workplace kitchens:

  1. Lunch left in the microwave and the person that put it there is nowhere to be seen and you want to use the microwave yourself.
  2. The lack of forks and teaspoons in the cutlery drawer. I’ve written about this before and believe it or not a study has been done about missing teaspoons in the workplace.
  3. It’s always the same people who put the clean dishes away once the dishwasher has done its thing. Even in a workplace I used to be in that had a roster it was still the same people from each team while others were nowhere to be seen.
  4. Dirty dishes left on the sink even though the dishwasher has now been emptied and is accepting dirty dishes.
  5. Food that’s been left in the fridge/freezer and forgotten, especially when it goes off and smells.
  6. An empty cofffee/milk/….. container. It’s not that hard to find out the process for getting a new one.
  7. A dirty sandwich maker. Give it a wipe after you use it people!

Really, these gripes just boil down to people being lazy and not considering others. I know there’s worse things in life than a full dishwasher of clean dishes but a bit of consideration goes a long way.

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Comments

  1. Michelle Prak says

    September 9, 2011 at 11:46 am

    The microwave in a workplace-that-shall-not-be-named is getting very grimy right now.

  2. Jen says

    September 9, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    Even having a food covering thingy on board for the microwave doesn’t seem to protect it from the spatters.

  3. Hazel Edmunds says

    September 9, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    Leaving the milk out on the side so it goes off – yeuk.

    • Jen says

      September 12, 2011 at 8:54 am

      I don’t notice that one so much at work, but occasionally at home it does.

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