“Every week there seems to be a new note in the office kitchen repeating the exact same thing,” says chenry in Canada. “Lately they’ve been threatening to throw away the dishes if you leave them in the sink, but they never do that either.”
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“Now someone’s added his own sign taking the piss out of the rest.”
related: You want clip art? Oh, we’ll give you clip art.
28 responses so far ↓
#1
park rose
I thought planking was crucial to the ongoing success of a floor. Extreme ironing, anyone?
May 25, 2011 at 8:57 pm rating: 9
#2
UnclGhost
I hope that smiley with a green thumb isn’t indication that they’ve kept the dishes dirty enough for plant life to grow on them.
May 25, 2011 at 8:58 pm rating: 3
#3
park rose
I like the green thumb on the yellow smiley face, too. I can’t read the note, but figure anyone seeing it would think it was the Che Guevara of lunchroom etiquette, or that at the least Management was encouraging the development of culture – hence the need to not only leave out the dishes, but to leave them unwashed. I think it is clip-art’s version of the Lady with the torch.
Subversive. Petri not Petrified. Let us agar-ment our way forward.
May 25, 2011 at 9:14 pm rating: 9
#4
TickleMyBambo
Why waste all that paper making annoying signs that only repeats itself over and over? Personally, I think 10th floor will benefit if they just got a Parrot whose cage sits above the sink to deliver this daily message every half hour.
” Rawhhh- Please do not leave dishes in the sink – Rawhhh- Failure to wash and remove dishes from sink will result in dishes being thrown out- Rawhhh- I am crucial to the ongoing success -Rawhh- to all you lazy bastards on this floor by -Rawhh- reminding you of proper dish washing and rack placing protocol- Rawhh- Thx Sandra!”
May 25, 2011 at 9:16 pm rating: 30
#5
Twez
Every place I’ve ever worked has claimed that the janitorial staff doesn’t do the dishes, which I’ve never understood. They’ll clean the toilets, but doing the dishes in the sink is too degrading?
May 25, 2011 at 9:19 pm rating: 3
#6
Divvitar
::Sigh::
May 25, 2011 at 10:34 pm rating: 1
#7
Canthz_B
Paper plates made of recycled paper. Saves both water and time…water for which the company pays, and time their employees should spend doing their jobs, not the dishes.
May 25, 2011 at 11:05 pm rating: 4
#8
Earl Hamsher
i would be tempted to buy about 70 or more dishes at the salvation army, smuggle them in and leave a giant pile
May 26, 2011 at 1:13 am rating: 11
#9
Grumpy Teacher McGrumperson
Passive or not, this is just damned funny.
May 26, 2011 at 10:01 am rating: 3
#10
The Elf
Pshaw! Everyone knows that in order to take an office policy seriously it must be printed in Comic Sans and have at least three exclamation points. No wonder the message isn’t getting out!
May 26, 2011 at 11:00 am rating: 14
#11
Nope
Why would anyone reasonably sane actually want to wash dishes? Buy a ****ing dishwasher or use paper plates/cups. Washing dishes FTL.
May 26, 2011 at 11:42 am rating: 2
#12
Auto Title Loans
And the winner is…! What I would like to know is who feels they have the necessary power to demand such things in the first place from the staff. Mutual agreement is one sign, and one happy, happy family.
May 26, 2011 at 12:42 pm rating: 1
#13
Foe
The slide show is too small.
May 26, 2011 at 1:34 pm rating: 4
#14
mutzali
The green thumb sign says:
———–
ALL 10th floor staff and visitors:
The plastic cups provided in the kitchen are everyone’s responsibility to wash and put away in the cupboard. The night cleaning staff Do Not wash any of our dishes but they do clean the sinks – anything being left in the sinks are being piled in the dish tray – these dishes are dirty!
The dish tray is only for clean dishes and to be put away each day before you leave – or so the other sign indicates they will be thrown out.
Please do your part to keep dishes, counters and kitchen clean – it only makes sense with all of us using this area.
We can do this with everyone pitching in. Thanks!
—————
Which leads me to:
Why are visitors included in this note? I can’t imagine having customers in for a meeting, and then telling them they have to wash their coffee cups.
If you don’t want dirty dishes in the tray, tell the cleaning staff to stop putting dirty dishes in the tray! From your note, they’re the ones doing that.
“Anything (being left in the sinks) ARE bing piled in the dish tray?” “Anything”, while it could mean a bunch of dishes, is still a singular noun.
The disk rack is to be put away every night?
May 26, 2011 at 1:35 pm rating: 1
#15
The Elf
If only someone’s mother worked there!
May 26, 2011 at 2:18 pm rating: 6
#16
Dentists West Hollywood
The trees are suffocating! Someone needs to put a sign by the printer where all these are coming from about how it’s for business only; not passive-aggressive and threatening break-room notes.
Marie
May 26, 2011 at 5:08 pm rating: 3
#17
Kate
haha
May 26, 2011 at 10:01 pm rating: 0
#18
JetJackson
Dirty dishes I can handle…but hearing management speak like “moving forward” is likely to make me go postal.
May 26, 2011 at 11:03 pm rating: 2
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