Comments on: Which is more annoying?

By: angie

angie — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:09:25 +0000

Things like this make me really happy to have a full cafeteria at my work lol.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:54:26 +0000

TRT: yes, I have read Dirk Gently, but it’s been probably 20 years and I only remember little bits. Now I’m going to have to re-read it to get the reference.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:20:42 +0000

Maybe the person left to get a pair of scissors to cut out the grease spot of the pizza box to recycle the non-greasy part…

By: mystic_eye_cda

mystic_eye_cda — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 03:24:44 +0000

That blueberry carton is not recyclable where I live. It was, first it was certain numbered plastics only, then it was basically all plastic, but the lastest lists basically no plastic is recyclable.

Also if they want to stop having to throw out massive amounts of ruined recycling they’d find a better way to sort it, like you know paying someone to sort it. Or at least make the rules more noticeable, here the rules are mostly spread out throughout the calendar, like when the month doesn’t start on a Sunday the empty days get a hint… who reads a calendar start to finish when they get it?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:27:33 +0000

I want to be the cake-bashi. Where do I sign up? I never have a problem starting to eat. Never.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:07:19 +0000

This isn’t just an English thing. It’s difficult to get someone to be the first to start a pot luck in my choral group. Everyone keeps hovering around, but no one wants to be the first.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:07:06 +0000

Oh, I’ve got one for ya, regarding the 1/8 slices of mangled donuts. We had someone at the office who liked to sample lots of things so when someone ELSE brought in a dozen for the group, she’d immediately take it upon herself to cut them ALL into bits so “everyone can try them all.” She did this a few times before we appointed a donut monitor to tell her on behalf of the group, “the rest of us have been polled and we each want one, whole donut to ourselves please.” We let her know that if she provided the donuts she could cut them up as she pleased but funny enough, this never happened.

By: shepd

shepd — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 01:12:25 +0000

GooseDuckDuck, maybe I suggest you contact the recycling company and request they mail you a letter on their letterhead stating they do not want greasy/contaminated pizza boxes. I’m sure they’d oblige and include any number of other ways stuff shouldn’t be recycled.

Photocopy it and put it in the break room. It’s not passive aggressive then–it’s informative.

Of course, I’m not big on recycling myself, but that’s another story…

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:57:43 +0000

People in my office will often times go ahead and throw away the pizza box — they actually just put it right over the trash can hole so you can’t throw anything out without moving it out of the way first..

By: merkin4

merkin4 — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:43:38 +0000

If it’s Baltimore, then the pizza is greasy. Used to get cheap pizza from a place called Vizzini’s – I could hold up a slice of pepperoni/cheese and watch the oil run off in a steady little stream.

The #1 reason why I learned how to make pizza at home was to avoid the Baltimore grease.

By: Poltergeist

Poltergeist — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:55:53 +0000

Really? Who stores a whole drawerful of sugar packets in the fridge?

By: GooseDuckDuck

GooseDuckDuck — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:11:00 +0000

I really wish more people knew this about the grease. Maybe the pizza places could print it on the box or something. At church there’s a sign in the kitchen telling people to take their pizza boxes home to recycle (they are too big to fit in the recycle box and leave room for other things). I keep wanting to leave a NNPAN stating that greasy boxes should not be recycled.

By: TRT

TRT — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:04:24 +0000

“until we got into a PA cleaning war of epic proportions.”

Have you ever read Dirk Gently?

By: TRT

TRT — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:03:09 +0000

Our prayer-group had to appoint someone as “the person who starts eating” (aka cake-bashi), as the food donations would be put out and then cleared away again untouched. Everyone was too polite to take the first morsel.

But then we are English.