DWS strikes heart of productivity
Ok I have just finished cleaning the lunch room at my work place. Not because it is my job and not because I enjoy it (maybe a little bit of “I have to kill some time and look busy”) but mainly because people are such bloody pigs when it comes to this bawdy room of tea and comestibles and I just can’t stand it. (Also I am suffering from DWS, Domination Withdrawal Syndrome) So this is my cure, hit me with some hot mundane work related domination HMWRD (pron H-M-wurd) and I thought I should let you know all about it.
Kath is a pro already having impressed her boss by simply looking like she is working long hours. Ahh government departments turn up and leave 15mins earlier/later than all your colleagues and you appear to be a work machine!
So anyway I am just authoring a terse note to put above the sink, maybe I will replicate some of the more cliched phrases these sorts of notes seem to attract. “..I am not your mother..” “..these dishes don’t clean themselves” ra ra ra.. Or I can try to coin a few choice phrases myself. Suggestions?..
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:31 pm
I was going to post a long comment but i just looked at the clock and it appears to be 4.29pm… only a minute to put my glass in the dishwasher, fill out my flex sheet and put my computer to sleep… next week maybe. Enough your afternoon at work all - i’m going home!
September 5th, 2005 at 7:34 am
i feel your pain about dirty kitchens…. i like your straight-up note but my advice is to put some humour into the mix, that way you can trick people into thinking that they didn’t just get blasted for being slobs, instead they had a good laugh while they (hopefully) washed their cup. maybe some kind of illustration will hold people’s attention long enough for said cup to be washed too.
although distinctly lacking in attention-grabbing hillarity, the ‘do you dishes’ note in our shared kitchen at the very least tries. it has a picture of a small, fat, sinister-looking man wearing a fairy suit and says: ‘please do your dishes or the fairy will turn you into a frog’. now it hasn’t ever been proven that this is the reason our kitchen is always spick and span. maybe it’s the fear of having that ugly fairy turn up, or maybe we’re all just really nice, conscientious people anyway, who knows?
September 5th, 2005 at 9:50 am
Seeing as we are overpaid Architects, working in climate of luxury off the fat of our client’s land, we have an office junior to wash up and clean our kitchen. Of course, I would happily see her fired and accept an extra few hundred dollars a year to put my mug in the dishwasher.