Recently, a big brouhaha erupted at my work because the cleanliness standards in the kitchen had really slipped. This happens from time to time. Despite the signs in the kitchen that say "Please clean up after yourselves, dish fairies do not work here!", a few people don't do their dishes, then a few more, then a few more. Before you know it, things are really gross.
Well this certainly set a cat among the pigeons.
People were outraged. This is outrageous! they cried. They can't take our kitchens away!
After all the outrage, people started to really worry that the management would take our kitchens away.
It turns out that fear of losing the kitchen is a very powerful motivator, because since then, the kitchen has shone like the top of the Chrysler Building. People have really pulled together. And the fridge! The fridge was totally cleaned out. All the old Tupperware in plastic bags that people had left in there for months, the contents of which had liquefied, it's all gone! You can totally see inside. And in case you're thinking sure, it's clean now, but it will fill up with grossness soon enough let me tell you readers, you have nothing to worry about! Someone stuck a bunch of labels and a sharpie on the fridge door so you can write your name on your food, and self nominated fridge police can follow up with you if they feel it has been lurking in the fridge for too long.
Hooray!
Meanwhile, as much as all of this controversy has amused me, the best thing about the kitchen/fridge wars has been the fact that with a clean fridge, now I can see this:
One of my genius colleagues has an open can of condensed milk in the fridge.
Usually someone gets sick of it and does them all, then sends an email to everyone telling us to lift our game.
This time, shit got even more real than usual.
The 2IC of the whole organisation sent us all an email telling us that things were totally out of hand, that kitchen facilities were a privilege, not a right, and if we couldn't clean up after ourselves the kitchens would be locked and we wouldn't be able to use them.
Well this certainly set a cat among the pigeons.
People were outraged. This is outrageous! they cried. They can't take our kitchens away!
they also cried.
After all the outrage, people started to really worry that the management would take our kitchens away.
It turns out that fear of losing the kitchen is a very powerful motivator, because since then, the kitchen has shone like the top of the Chrysler Building. People have really pulled together. And the fridge! The fridge was totally cleaned out. All the old Tupperware in plastic bags that people had left in there for months, the contents of which had liquefied, it's all gone! You can totally see inside. And in case you're thinking sure, it's clean now, but it will fill up with grossness soon enough let me tell you readers, you have nothing to worry about! Someone stuck a bunch of labels and a sharpie on the fridge door so you can write your name on your food, and self nominated fridge police can follow up with you if they feel it has been lurking in the fridge for too long.
Hooray!
Meanwhile, as much as all of this controversy has amused me, the best thing about the kitchen/fridge wars has been the fact that with a clean fridge, now I can see this:
One of my genius colleagues has an open can of condensed milk in the fridge.
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