# I can't believe they saw this in an email.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 11, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881 "2001-10-11T20:26:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/1 "2001-10-11T20:26:00Z")
Our office got the following email today for the facilities manager:
> [@](#):
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> Please be advised that we are having problems with people pouring soup
> down the drains in the water coolers.
> This damages the machines, so we ask that people refrain from doing this and
> use the garbage bins provided.
>
> Thank you,
HOLY SHIT! I can’t believe that people are that stupid!!! And by the looks of things, it’s happened more that once!
Just shoot me…
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### Author:  [@lenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lenin)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/2 "2001-10-11T20:27:51Z")
_bang_
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/3 "2001-10-11T20:29:46Z")
I feel sorry for the people who have to clean out the garbage bins.
“Who the heck poured all this soup in the trash? Haven’t these people ever heard of a sink?”
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/4 "2001-10-11T20:53:22Z")
At my work we have 2 large sinks. Above each sink is a large sign. “Do NOT put food or straws (for stiring coffee) in sink. Thank you.” Everyday what are the sinks full of!!! STRAWS AND FOOD!!! Fucking morons, I wanna slap them.
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### Author:  [@MFS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MFS)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/5 "2001-10-11T21:00:04Z")
put up a large sign that reads: “Death to Stupid Lazy People”…
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### Author:  [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/6 "2001-10-11T21:00:56Z")
A sign in my shop:
“Please DO NOT spit on the floor or in the water fountain.”
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### Author:  [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/7 "2001-10-11T21:06:02Z")
A sign on a urinal:
_Stand closer. It’s shorter than you think._
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### Author:  [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/8 "2001-10-11T21:33:40Z")
Whatever moron decided to build my building decided NOT to give us a sink. So we have the trash to dump EVERYTHING in. Old coffee, food, regular paper trash…everything goes into the trash can in the break room. And since there’s no sink, the only water is from the coffee machine, so everyone washes out their mug, dishes, whatever with the hot water from the tap on the coffee machine and then just dumps it in the trash. It’s disgusting and I feel for the janitor.
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### Author:  [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/9 "2001-10-11T21:36:38Z")
Seen in a bar bathroom:
**"Since people don’t piss in the ashtrays, do NOT put cigarette butts in the urinals."**
and
**"Our Aim is to Keep this Bathroom Clean. Your Aim Will Help."**
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### Author:  [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/10 "2001-10-11T22:13:29Z")
**Whammo** said:
> [@](#):
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> Everyday what are the sinks full of?!?! STRAWS AND FOOD!
So…are they under the impression that they’re doing someone a favor? Maybe a little “Some cream, some sugar, now to stir…OH! Someone thoughtfully left a _used stirring stick_ in the sink. I just use this instead of taking a clean one!”
I swear, I just do not understand what does through some people’s heads.
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/11 "2001-10-11T23:07:59Z")
That wasn’t _soup_ in the water-cooler drain! I had a hangover and was nauseated and thought some water might settle my stomach and…
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### Author:  [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/12 "2001-10-11T23:20:38Z")
We aim to please. You aim too, **please**.
I saw that one at a restaurant with a sign outside: You can beat our prices but you can’t beat our meat.
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### Author:  [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/13 "2001-10-12T00:12:12Z")
heh. i have one of those cute little signs in my bathroom, with a little toilet set in stacked cardboard insets.
we aim to please…
You aim too, please!
i dunno if it helps at parties, but it’s damn cute.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/14 "2001-10-12T01:07:56Z")
We just put up a sign at work above the laundry hamper:
“This is a hamper for soiled towels, NOT A GARBAGE CAN!”
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/15 "2001-10-12T01:27:04Z")
It is to giggle. We have a sink at work that contains NO garbage disposal, but people insist on putting food down it even though there is a sign at eye level begging them not to (and the fact that every six weeks or so we get a nasty e-mail from our Big Boss[sup]TM[/sup] telling us to knock it off). The maintenance guys got sick of coming in for their weekly unclogging, so this time they ripped the plumbing apart and found a forest of COFFEE STIRRERS! Dipshits! Now we are not allowed to have coffee stirrers in our building.
Thankfully, Princess **Myrna** does not drink coffee, so she can point and laugh at her coworkers who have to choose between stirring their hot coffee with their fingers or shaking it like a martini.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/16 "2001-10-12T01:48:30Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Myrnalene \*
> \*\* Thankfully, Princess **Myrna** does not drink coffee, so she can point and laugh at her coworkers who have to choose between stirring their hot coffee with their fingers or shaking it like a martini. \*\*
" The name’s Valdez. Juan Valdez. I’ll have a vodka Frappuccino please. Shaken, not stirred."
😃 😃 😃
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/17 "2001-10-12T01:54:23Z")
Remember we are a civilization that has to have a warning on electric hair dryers…
**Do not use this in the shower**
Says a lot doesn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/18 "2001-10-12T02:17:16Z")
Ugh. When I was a freshman in college, some girl had the disgusting habit of pouring “Ring-O-Noodle” soup down the sink drain in the dorm bathroom quite frequently. You’d go in there to brush your teeth or something, and there would be these little O-ring noodles clogging the drain. Yuk!
My mama always told me to flush that sort of thing down the toilet back in the days before we had a garbage disposal.
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/19 "2001-10-12T07:30:28Z")
Ha. I work in a hospital lab. Everyday I can see trash cans labelled with “No Gloves” signs and filled with bloody gloves, paper shredding/recycling bins (marked as such) also filled with gloves, and a clearly labeled aluminum recycling bin filled with used paper towels and left-over food. I’m not exactly sure **what’s** in the bottom of the break room sink, but I don’t like to look at it.
At least ninety percent of the people passing through here in a day have college degrees. I am dumbfounded as to how they acquired them since they appear to be freakin’ illiterates.
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### Author:  [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-they-saw-this-in-an-email/86881/20 "2001-10-12T10:51:03Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by dwyr \*
> \*\*Ha. I work in a hospital lab. Everyday I can see trash cans labelled with “No Gloves” signs and filled with bloody gloves, \*\*
The sinbins in the labs I used to work doubled as general garbage containers. Everything from old envelopes to tea bags were being designated Biohazards. It wasnt until a review discovered how much was being spent on incineration costs that the powers that be invested in some proper trash receptacles.
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