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Kitchen in work - what do you do?

  • 25-08-2008 11:26am
    #1
    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    Further to the "Fast Food & tidying up" thread - for those of you who have a kitchen/tea & coffee station at work, what do you do with your cup/spoon/bowl when your finished with them?

    I was just down having my brekkie and saw three people in a row just dump their cereal bowls into the sink instead of putting them into the dishwasher, which is approximately 3 feet away. It has annoyed me out of all proportion, I'm not really sure why.

    I should really get a life...

    What do you do with your dishes in work? 24 votes

    Put them in the dishwasher
    0% 0 votes
    Leave 'em in the sink
    75% 18 votes
    Atari Jaguar
    25% 6 votes


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  • #2
    Captain Ginger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Captain Ginger


    In the morning I bring it all to my desk and leave it there, then when I'm going home I put it in the dishwasher.


  • #3
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I leave them in the sink. Well actually I leave my bowl with some porridge in the end of it on my desk for the day and let the porridge weld itself in. Then I dump it in the sink :D

    We have a cleaner, I'm thinking about her job security ;)


  • #4
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Always empty the crap out and put them in the dishwasher.

    Personally, I'd just feel really bad leaving my dirty delph for anybody to clean up - even the cleaner.


  • #5
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    I cant understand the eat breakfast in work thing at all...

    Why not eat breakfast at home??
    Just get up 5 min earlier...

    I do however drink a ludicrous amount of coffee during the day, but I use my big metal travel cup and just keep refilling it, so no washing up..

    Actually Ever, now that I think of it..
    I've had my cup about four months now and aside from giving the lid a rinse I don't think it's been cleaned...
    I'm almost afraid to ...
    What if the cheapy crappy coffee we get in work tastes even worse without the lingering flavor of thousands of its departed comrades in my mug...

    It's just not worth the risk..


  • #6
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭Archeron


    I leaev all my bowls and cups and spoons in the bottom drawer of my desk, and clear it out once a year. You never know when you might need a bucket of home grown penicillin.


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  • #7
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Honey-ec wrote: »
    Further to the "Fast Food & tidying up" thread - for those of you who have a kitchen/tea & coffee station at work, what do you do with your cup/spoon/bowl when your finished with them?

    I was just down having my brekkie and saw three people in a row just dump their cereal bowls into the sink instead of putting them into the dishwasher, which is approximately 3 feet away. It has annoyed me out of all proportion, I'm not really sure why.

    I should really get a life...

    Yeah this bugs the absolute crap out of me! There was one time I even took a picture of my bowl on it's lonesome sitting snugly in the dishwasher, and took a pic of the absolute carnage that was lying in and around the sink. The idea was to send this around to all here and go "hnyah look at how good I am". But I didn't send said mail around. I just realize that some people are just messy c*nts by design.


  • #8
    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    I cant understand the eat breakfast in work thing at all...

    Why not eat breakfast at home??
    Just get up 5 min earlier...

    Cause I get up at 6am as it is. If I got up at 5.55 to eat breakfast, I'd be needing my lunch around 10am...


  • #9
    PurpleBerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    Loads of people are too lazy to bring their cups/mugs to the sink. They leave them in their offices then complain there are no clean cups!

    One Bank Holiday friday a plate with milk (spilled) on it was left out in the office. Come Tuesday morning and the smell was toxic.


  • #10
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    I just leave my stuff on my desk in my office, and its always gone the next day.
    Not sure how/why. Im guessing that the Chinese cleaners take care of it.
    Must leave them out a carton of Lucky Strikes at Christmas time.


  • #11
    Steve_o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Dont eat in work, bar lunch and thats a sandwich I buy in spar, so I just use the wrapper as a makeshift plate, as for cups, I have my own one that I wash whenever i make tea...


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  • #12
    c - 13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    In the last office where we actually had a kitchen I used to have most stuff I needed in my desk (from home), mug, bowl, spoon, fork etc.

    Its not that I have a problem with sharing utensils with other people but the fact that if i'd go to look for one it was usually under a pile of other dirty cutlery in the sink so i'd have to clean it anyway before I used it.

    I just found it easier to keep it in my desk, use as required, wash, dry and return it to the desk again.

    In the current office I just take Tupperware containers and my own spoon/fork, dump them back in my bag when i'm done and clean them when I get home.


  • #13
    RxQueen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    Neesa wrote: »
    Loads of people are too lazy to bring their cups/mugs to the sink. They leave them in their offices then complain there are no clean cups!

    One Bank Holiday friday a plate with milk (spilled) on it was left out in the office. Come Tuesday morning and the smell was toxic.

    Ha that happened in our office to , god the smell was horrible. Our cleaner was on a week off that week , oh how we missed her


  • #14
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    I cant understand the eat breakfast in work thing at all...

    Why not eat breakfast at home??
    Just get up 5 min earlier...
    Habit I guess. Now, eating as soon as I'm up makes me feel ill. I feel much better in the mornings if I leave at least half an hour before eating. I'm also not crazy about cereal, and toast is boring :)
    So when I get into work I have a scone and a cup of coffee.

    When I worked in a place where we used to have a kitchen, I think I generally threw my stuff in the dishwasher. There were contract cleaners who came in at night though and generally filled it up and switched it on.

    The only problem we used to have is that some moron would come in, in the morning, make a coffee for himself, drink most of it, then dump the cup and remains of the contents all over the clean dishes in the dishwasher. So it had to be put on again leaving nothing clean for breakfasts and the like.


  • #15
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    seamus wrote: »
    The only problem we used to have is that some moron would come in, in the morning, make a coffee for himself, drink most of it, then dump the cup and remains of the contents all over the clean dishes in the dishwasher. So it had to be put on again leaving nothing clean for breakfasts and the like.

    *Places hands in pockets, Whistles, and avoids eye contact with everybody*

    I may have done this once or twice :o


  • #16
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    We’ve a canteen in work and a roster for tidying up, only takes 15 minutes.
    I never even set foot in it. I don’t drink tea, coffee and I don’t ask my employer to pay me to eat breakfast on company time.
    And I don't plan on spending my lunchtime listening to the women in the office bitch and comment on everything. They're so bitter about everything it'd scare you

    In return, I never tidy the place even when I’m on the roster. Sure I get given out to but what can they do?

    Sure next thing, they’ll be asking the non-smokers to sweep the smoking hut :rolleyes:


  • #17
    PurpleBerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    micmclo wrote: »
    Sure next thing, they’ll be asking the non-smokers to sweep the smoking hut :rolleyes:

    Oh you better believe it! This already happened to someone I know. Not a non-smoker he's an ex-smoker. He's also an ex-employee of that company (for other reasons aswell of course).


  • #18
    Marco Massive Light
    Posts: 0 ✭ Marco Massive Light


    Why not eat breakfast at home??
    Just get up 5 min earlier...

    Some of us have a long commute. I used to work 7-3 and had to be out of the house by 5.45. It was easier for me to get breakfast on the way in, then at least that way I was eating at ten to 7 as opposed to 5.30 - lunch was at 1pm! I was starving enough as it was...


  • #19
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    If I use anything like this in work I wash them in the sink, dry them and leave them where I got them, or else it is stuff I have brought in myself (cutlery) that I wash and keep at my desk. I rarely eat anything other than my lunch rioll/sandwich at work though and then I use the wrapper to collect crumbs so no mess.


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