For an office of 90 people, we have 2 fridges. With these 2 fridges come several issues.1) Nobody cleans the fridge. Volunteers have to be requested and/or cajoled. One time it was not cleaned for more than 4 months, and if listeria did not become an issue, I have a feeling it would have remained uncleaned much longer.
2) Staff put a lot of food items on these fridges. Food that has expired, food enough to feed the whole office, food that smells, food long forgotten by owners, they are all in there, fighting for space. To find your item, you have to wade, dive, and swim through all the other packages. Come cleaning time, they quickly disappear only to come back the morning after.
3) But this one really baffles me to no end. How could anybody take food that is not theirs from the fridge? Ever so often I get complaints that someone is sharing her/his coffee creamer, butter, bread, pita, soda and it is gone. I find the situation so pathetic, to borrow a Canadian term.
I have reached the point of not caring anymore. I don't volunteer. I have cleaned the fridge more than once, and I always believe in giving other users a chance. I rarely store anything in those fridges, I cannot be bothered finding my stuff there. Anyone is welcome to devour the expired yogurt I deliberately placed there.
Truth is, I was really tempted to post the fridge picture here. . .but. . .
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i have one of those at work, too! plus... a dirty, stinky microwave!
ReplyDeleteIf I am to go back in my high school days now I will be guilty of no. 3. We use to spy who's dropping goodies in the manito/manita box. Then we would follow sneaking and take the goodies that is not intended for us. We would laugh hard not realizing its bad implication. It was fun but ugly.
ReplyDeleteNo. 1 and 2 are just gross.
I read an article which was posted in our office's kitchen to appeal to the senses of people who take food that is not theirs. They are called - FRIDGE RAIDERS. There was even a rumor that a lawyer actually sliced a cake that was intended for a surprise birthday party for one of the staff before it was actually served. YIKES...
ReplyDeleteOne suggestion was to label your food with - "This has already been contaminated with my saliva."
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Medyo swerte 'mi kay naa'y tig-limpyo sa among office fridge; once a week. But let me tell you an incident: my officemate brought in her leftover(I'm not kidding!) packed in a to-go Applebees bag. She put it in our office fridge and in less than 4 hours, it disappeared; somebody must be very hungry... too hungry to think of possible disease contamination(ngayk!).
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At work, our lunch bag/box etc has to have the current date, initials/name. After 48 hrs, and it is still in the fridge it will end up in the trash or taken out of the fridge. Anything to be shared with anybody is labeled Mickey. The techs were designated to do this. Believe me, there were a lot of complaints when this started, but it seems everybody now does the right thing.
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