The office 'scolding email' thread

Expecting staff to leave the office in a reasonable state so that it can be adequately cleaned for the benefit of all isn't treating staff like children, quite the opposite.

I wouldn't want some of my colleagues to treat the office like they do their own homes tbh. Some people are untidy and whatless when it comes to hygiene and hoarding at home. I personally can't relax, think or work in such environments, I don't think the majority of people can.

 

Or i could label it cockroach milk. It's a thing

 

or green food dye and 'toxic waste' label (one place i worked, one team did resort to this)

i just do a lightish tea that i can drink without milk at work now, it's easier...

 

"So what should I do with this toxic waste the process has generated? Ooooh I'll just add it to this other one here nobody will notice".

 

Maybe someone came across a thirsty foundling during their fag break

 

Label it Soy. Will stay merrily untouched.

 

As to untidy desks, the last place that had a boss, she wanted us to go paper free. 20 odd staff, three of us ignored her and carried on with paper. She labelled us three 'dinosaurs', without thinking that dinosaurs lived far longer than humans have done. Seems that us three dinosaurs were responsible for 90% of the sales. We all left, company went bust. Extinct you may say, just like...

 

Paper free is pointless in my line of work. I can review a hardcopy agreement draft a lot quicker than on a screen, plus I always need reference copies.

 

We are "paperless" but I still print stuff to review. It's no big deal. it all goes in the confidential waste afterwards. It just doesn't go into a file, it is saved in the system. Which one day will be hacked by the Russians, so clearly keeping everything in the "Cloud " is better.

 

I ended up having to buy some hippymilk to deter magpies. No one's touched it yet but then neither have I.