Furious but I can't tell anyone but y'all
Posted by TinTexas on Apr 11, 2008 · Member since Aug 2006 · 1216 posts
We had a potluck breakfast this morning in honor of a staff member's birthday. I knew there wouldn't be much I could eat. But that's OK. I made a tofu scramble. What made me furious is this. One of the ladies helping set up, dropped a plastic spoon on the floor, wiped it off a little with her fingers and went over to the food table, looked at all the dishes needed serving spoons and picked my tofu scramble to put her filthy spoon in. I called her on, it saying you just dropped that spoon on the floor. She of course invoked the 5 second rule, which is bullshit! I guess she figured no one but me was going to eat it. I'm sitting here in my office now with the door closed. Oh how I hate people today! >:(
How utterly rude of her! I think you have a right to be furious at her. Why didn't she just go wash the darn thing? Ugh!
She was standing about a foot from a sink, too. No wonder these people are always complaining of stomach aches and intestinal distress! She probably does the same thing at home all the time and doesn't even think about it! >:(
That's disgusting. And if your office is anything like the ones I have worked in, they are rarely cleaned (and when they are, they don't do a very good job). I liken it to people who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom - it is one thing if you want to afflict yourself with those nasty germs, but at least think about everyone else!!!
That's disgusting. And if your office is anything like the ones I have worked in, they are rarely cleaned (and when they are, they don't do a very good job). I liken it to people who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom - it is one thing if you want to afflict yourself with those nasty germs, but at least think about everyone else!!!
How rude! My office is filthy because my cheap boss got rid of the cleaning guy and said he would clean it himself (yeah right). I can count on one hand how often this office has been cleaned in over a year. If I drop anything on the floor it's either trash or thoroughly sanitized. I don't even put my utensils on the kitchen counter!
I think the wiping it with her fingers is even worse than it falling on the floor. That is gross. And if you ever want to be really grossed out, stand in a public bathroom some time (Barnes and Noble is a good one) and count how many women leave without washing their hands.
Ewwwww. Not washing hands after going to the bathroom, especially in a public restroom where things are disgusting, is totally gross.
I just went into the break area to get a refill of decaf and the janitor is there mopping the floor in the hall. The building is kept pretty clean (new building and they haven't "signed off" on the acceptance to the contractors). But I didn't mention (too gross) earlier that after the lunch when I was putting my tofu scramble in the refrigerator, I looked down and a few feet from where she dropped the spoon there was a dead roach on the floor. Microwaving stuff kills germs, right? I'll have to get it really hot before I feel safe eating the rest of it!
Microwaving stuff kills germs, right? I'll have to get it really hot before I feel safe eating the rest of it!
Yes, you'll be fine. I'm so not a germ-a-phobe, I guess. I was also in a class the other day where someone was talking about roaches and how they carry a lot of diseases but don't spread them, so no roach-worries :)
Office kitchens are nasty, though. I don't know how they get so gross, but somehow people have no respect for common areas and just leave their spills/crumbs/etc. for others to pick up.
I think the wiping it with her fingers is even worse than it falling on the floor. That is gross. And if you ever want to be really grossed out, stand in a public bathroom some time (Barnes and Noble is a good one) and count how many women leave without washing their hands.
I like the "symbolic washers," as i call them...the ones who turn on the water and barely get their hands wet before turning dispensing papertowels (with their dirty hands) and leaving. They dint actually WASH their hands they just go through the motion of it, but only for like a half a second...I feel like that has got to be even worse because it just makes things more damp for the germies...
That's incredibly rude. Did you take the spoon out? If you feel any better, for most floors, it takes about 15 minutes of contact for the spoon to get get-you-sick dirty.
That's incredibly rude. Did you take the spoon out? If you feel any better, for most floors, it takes about 15 minutes of contact for the spoon to get get-you-sick dirty.
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wait, wait. so you're telling me the five second rule is real but is actually a fifteen minute rule?
i love this!
Cop a squat and pee under her desk. :D
Cop a squat and pee under her desk. :D
LOL. You could always do that! Maybe she'll get a clue then.
Although, she probably helped you boost your immune system!??! >:D
the vegan gods, as well as the gods of all things sanitary, shall smite her.
The hands are totally grosser than the floor, in my opinion. Hands=eyes and noses and mouths=germs and sickies. So gross!
It was a plastic fork, for crying out loud! She could have just gotten a new one if she wanted to be lazy.
:boooo:
This thread has actually opened my eyes to how lucky I am, with the lunchroom at work. Yeah, sometimes the room and/or the microwaves pong of other people's food, but the tables are almost always clean and empty of magazines/rubbish, people wipe up after themselves if there's a spill, there's a super-hot dishwasher-sanitiser thingy for the mugs and cutlery, and the cleaning ladies wipe out the two fridges and three microwaves every day or so. When I think of how icky my last job's staffroom was, I am astounded at how fortunate I am here. AND there's a balcony with tables & chairs to sit out upon when the weather is clement... LOL! How much better could a staffroom be? ;D :)>>>
Cop a squat and pee under her desk. :D
Personally I'd be tempted to leave a deposit in her wastepaper basket. An OFFENSIVE deposit.
If I were you, I would have been offended no matter whose dish she chose. How gross, risky, and uncouth. Sorry, hon.
Wow, that was quite rude and disgusting of her! YUCK! She reminds me of my MIL. We went to a Christmas dinner party she was throwing and she wanted to send some leftovers home for our kids. Well, she fished some plastic wraap out of the garbage, not the recycle bin, the actual filthy garbage can, covered the cake, and sent us on our merry way!! Needless to say, the cake went straight into the garbage when we got home. My hubby and I were really taken aback by that...eeeeewwww! :o
AB, that reminds me of the woman I was living with here in Spain as a student the yr I met my husband. She had a 4 yr old boy. She would feed him a few spoonfuls of a yogurt, and then leave the leftovers, with the spoon standing in it, sitting on TOP of the fridge. Not on the top shelf, on the outside, on the roof of the fridge, until his next meal or snack. And wondered why he always had gastritis! Poor little mite! My roomie and I tried to explain to her that it's a CULTURE, they breed bacteria in it, but all we got was "Well, maybe that's so where you come from." In a very snotty, "don't try to pull my leg" tone of voice. Said child had serious behavioural problems and we debated whether he was actually slightly developmentally retarded, or just a nasty child with an uncontrolled temper, but I'm sure rotting yogurt on a regular basis didn't help.
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