- Crumbs reside on the table.
- Dishes are piling in the sink.
- The coffee maker hasn't been cleaned since perhaps 1994.
- Dust bunnies are breeding rampantly in the corners, not unlike real bunnies.
- The food in the fridge no longer qualifies as food.
No, this is not a description of my house. This is worse; this is ...
... The Staff Kitchen.
You know, you'd think that librarians, of all people, whose entire profession rests on the merits of precision and order, would be able to keep a kitchen relatively clean.
This must be some sort of a private taboo, the one area of their lives where disorder and chaos can reign, where they can forgo their focus on order and just let the mess pile up. Where they can let someone else take care of establishing order, for once.
Problem is, when everyone starts thinking "someone else", there is suddenly no one left to do it. Hence the sorry state of the Staff Kitchen.
Librarians and disorder? Quite the irony, isn't it?
It's a good thing I don't eat in there. Otherwise I'd feel guilty, and perhaps inclined to do my part. Fact is, rarely do I ever step foot in that room, unless The Hot Girl happens to be there; which, of course, goes without saying. Otherwise, I make an active point to stay the hell away from that germfest.**
(** The kitchen, not the Hot Girl. Or so I hope.)
Friday, April 4, 2008
Dis/Order
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I am also a librarian and I can tell you that my desk, my home and my car are a disaster! I think you're right that this provides an escape from the orderly world we inhabit in our profession.
It is a tremendous WAR to keep our branch library's staff kitchen clean. Somehow they must think the liberry fairy will come and clean it all up. Mostly what happens is that I, the manager am the bitch who throws away the Tupperware because it is housing toxic waste.
Kudos on tossing the Tupperware! If people can't learn, then teach 'em a lesson, is what I say.
Fridge cleaning day is always a fun one, too. People actually take offense that their moldy food was tossed out. Not that they were going to eat it -- but it seems that somehow, in their minds, some sort of violation has still taken place in the form of someone else tossing out their garbage. Weird, weird, weird.
Just found your blog today. It's being used as a training item for blogs where I live.
Great fun! Thanks for sharing and keep it up! :)
ROFL. I keep on getting those "we are emptying the fridge on the 5th floor today" emails. Of course, since I'm never at the office and always on the field, it's none of my business. I think dirty kitchen syndrome is a corporate condition, really.
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