Hygiene at Work
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ddrueding
Fixture
The women freak out about hygiene, so they aren't a problem. The guys get the computers so physically dirty that they clean them themselves.
Stereodude
Not really a
Yeah, I have that same iss
Whoops, gotta go.
Whoops, gotta go.
Some of the keyboards for our lab computers have the most disgusting keys being all brown and black. It looks like someone was using them after they just changed the oil in their car.
Fortunately the equipment in my cube is for me, so it's not handled by lots of people. I clean my own cube every few weeks or so. We have a service who empties the trash and vacuums every night (or ever other night).
Fortunately the equipment in my cube is for me, so it's not handled by lots of people. I clean my own cube every few weeks or so. We have a service who empties the trash and vacuums every night (or ever other night).
ddrueding
Fixture
We have a single full-time guy who cleans the office. I gave him an iPod I won in some auction for Christmas. I now get the deluxe treatment.
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
I think our service vacuums weekly. Or maybe just weakly. Which is how I would describe their ability to dust. At least the trash & recycling bins are emptied daily.
I use my laptop's keyboard & mouse so I don't have to worry about other people's finger grime. My concern is the phone handset. Even though I've an office I don't have a speakerphone (only conference rooms get them) so if someone else uses my office while I'm telecommuting the handset can get rather unclean. There use to be "phone wipes" around but I haven't seen any in some time.
dd - Great idea on giving the iPod to the janitor.
I use my laptop's keyboard & mouse so I don't have to worry about other people's finger grime. My concern is the phone handset. Even though I've an office I don't have a speakerphone (only conference rooms get them) so if someone else uses my office while I'm telecommuting the handset can get rather unclean. There use to be "phone wipes" around but I haven't seen any in some time.
dd - Great idea on giving the iPod to the janitor.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I leave my office delibately cluttered and intermingle my personal belongings with those that belong to my employer. A couple times, someone has had the bright idea to clean the store-room that is my office and both times they wound up throwing away something important.
I get bitched at for having a messy office (no one can find my phone, for example) but since I'm in a windowless room with no ventilation, on the far side of the building from everyone else and I have to keep track of all the cables, power supplies, spare parts and software that people need, I don't feel any particular obligation to waste my time on being tidy.
I get bitched at for having a messy office (no one can find my phone, for example) but since I'm in a windowless room with no ventilation, on the far side of the building from everyone else and I have to keep track of all the cables, power supplies, spare parts and software that people need, I don't feel any particular obligation to waste my time on being tidy.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
For one of the projects I worked on at Electronic Arts, we weren't personally assigned console equipment, as we might be working with different stuff each day.
It's frankly amazing how slick stuff got. I snagged alcohol wipes from first aid kits to wipe down controllers each day. Disinfects and removes oil....
It's frankly amazing how slick stuff got. I snagged alcohol wipes from first aid kits to wipe down controllers each day. Disinfects and removes oil....
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
In contracting it's pretty common for me to just sit down where ever to use a phone or a PC. I've picked up handsets that have a quarter inch layer of grey funk on them from someone's ear, and found mice that have the same waxy buildup on the left button and wheel.
That's when I go wash my hands and find a new place to sit.
That's when I go wash my hands and find a new place to sit.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
By slick I thought you meant how the texture gets removed from the plastic in high wear areas. But oil.....eww. Reminds me of people at the gym who don't wipe down the equipment when they are through.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
No, the wear on the controllers actually makes them less slippery. Once I wiped one down with an alcohol wipe, the well-worn controllers would stick to my hands, if they got a little sweaty. That's a different kind of discomfort.