Is it normal to need a hazmat suite and a rifle?

One place had the same rule, but the refrigerator was only cleaned once every year or so. They'd send out an e-mail on Monday stating that everything without a name would be thrown out on Friday.

It was great, too! It gave me time to make up a bag with the name of someone that left the company within a month of the previous cleaning. ;)

Unfortunately they didn't alway's catch the bag. One bag made five years before it was noticed. :O

When I was in charge of such, it was simple. When I went home on Friday at 6:30, if it was in the fridge, it got dumped. Only exception was canned (unopened) sodas. Other than that, it went to the dumpster. This included tupperware, dishes, etc. After the first two weeks of me doing that, it was amazing, people started taking their belongings home :)

*edited for spelling (hopefully I caught them all)*

there is a person dedicated to the task, and is part of job duties.

Every week it is cleaned out.

was in a place where we had a regular run through of young guys living away from home for the first time. They came to us for training and then went elsewhere in the organisation after about three months.

I got charged with keeping the social areas reasonable as those sort of things had to be done by permanent full-time staff to ensure they were done right. My answer to the fridge was simple, I put up a new notice.

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Attention all staff -- Fridge Use Policy

All items without a name label and all items in the fridge after four forty-five pm on a Friday automatically become the property of the transient trainee. Transient trainee WILL remove all their property at five pm every Friday night.

Thank you.

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Those young guys weren't on much pay, so they literally jumped at ANY opportunity to get extra food and drink for free. The result was every Friday night the fridge was empty, and everything had a label before it went in the fridge. Forget to label and it could get eaten at lunch, which a few slothful people found out the hard way.

That's what's known as a social management process.

We had someone who raided the fridge until "it" happened.

We had a lady that was nursing her child, and would express her milk, and put it in a foam bag labeled "Breast Milk" and "Do Not Open or Consume". We even had a special drawer for her and put a sign on the fridge. Well, the breast milk disappeared one day. She put a sign up addressed to the person who drank her breast milk, and the thievery stopped.

When in trade school we had a rule that all coveralls were to be put in for cleaning daily. Due to a personal issue between a classmate and a union rep, we decided to not clean our coveralls daily, nor weekly nor monthly nor ever. I had one pair go 5 months withotu washing. They stunk of oil and grease and gas, lubricants of all varieties and they were literally BLACK top to bottom.

the union rep finally resoved his issue with our freind and all went back to daily washing again.

When with Ford, again daily cleaning clean ones everyday.

When weleding and machining for a boiler and talk company, it was weekly, but I didn't get as dirty at that job because often coveralls were covered up with other protective gear.

As for stinks, i think my all time favorte, well there's two, kinda off topic to this thread though.

1) Fish fertilizer, for lawns, into the outer sir intake vents of a car. the smell does NOT go away, ever, need a completely new vent system.

2) Taped a banana to the back of a coworkers desk drawer. After about two weeks teh fruit flies started, another week or two later and his office partner moved out into the boardroom to work, fruit flies EVEYRWHERE and what a nasty smell! :D