Your momma doesn’t work here
By Brad on May 16, 2008 in Things That Make You Shake Your Head, Trivial Matters | comments(1)
Yesterday afternoon, as I was getting ready to leave the office for the day to go meet with a vendor, I went into the kitchen to wash out my mug and found this in the kitchen sink…
Someone left their dirty plate with half-eaten food in the middle of the sink for someone else to take care of. Granted, in our office, we have Kitchen Services staff who collect dishes that need to be washed, load the dishwashers and re-shelve the clean dishes. It’s nice to have people that make sure we have clean glasses, plates and silverware for our use. But I think there are limits as to what should be expected of them and also reasonable standards for the rest of us on how we should take care of dishes we are finished with.
It seems a little much to leave a plate with food still on it in the middle of the sink — in a kitchen that our whole floor shares and uses. I don’t enjoy seeing others’ leftovers sitting in a sink that I want to use. Is it really so hard to quickly scrape the leftover food into the trash can? Is someone SO important that they can’t take the 10-15 seconds to do that after they’ve gone to the trouble of bringing it to the kitchen? Is it laziness or is it elitism (i.e. “that task is beneath me”)?
I’ll say this. It is rude. It is disgusting (especially when it becomes waterlogged and soggy from others using water at the sink). And it is completely unnecessary. Your momma doesn’t work here to clean up after you, so do it yourself!
