It’s surprisingly neat–what you can see, anyway. She has lots of little nicknacks that are dusty, and her house just smells moldy and musty. I think she has a cleaning service for the big stuff, but I don’t even want to think about what’s in the closet where they don’t go. Or the attic.
And just so this isn’t a total hijack, another lazy coworker story. Someone refilled the stapler and left the empty box on the counter in the copy room. The very small copy room. Yeah, it was such a long walk to the trash can. Right behind them. All they had to do was turn around, not even take another step. Guess that’s too much work.
Shameless bragging alert:
At my company, of about 240 employees, we have a single common breakroom. There is a voluntary sign up sheet to clean out the breakroom and empty/clean the fridge last Friday of the month. The day of the cleaning, the designated volunteer will send out a company-wide e-mail warning employees: if you don’t come collect your tupperware or anything you might want to keep, by 3 p.m., it will be tossed, no exceptions. The person who has clean up duty gets a $25 gift certificate to either Target or Walmart, whichever they choose.
Our break room is always spotless, the fridge is never nasty and the people who do the cleaning never resent it because they volunteer and are rewarded for it.
So there.