People who don't throw away their trash? (woman, passive)

[Jakealope]

I work for a large corporation, but my dept was moved to a separate office building 2 years ago. My dept has about 35 people, and we do not have a cleaning staff. We have one cleaning woman who works for the property mgmt company, and she cleans in the early mornings only. Everyone in our office is aware that we do not have full time cleaning staff. Yet, day after day, month after month, we have many people who leave their garbage in the meeting rooms and in the kitchen area. People will sit through a meeting, and when the meetings are over they leave the paper cups, soda bottles, water bottles, candy wrappers, etc. on the meeting room table. Yet they walk right by the garbage cans on their way out. Or they make a cup of coffee in our shared kitchen, use a half of an individual serving size container of creamer and leave the other half sitting on the counter and dripping on the counter. Or they take those little stickers off fruit and leave them on the counter that we all have to share. It takes the same amount of time to throw these items in the garbage as it does to set them down on the kitchen counter.

What's is the thought process here? This behavior baffles me.

[SF]

Originally Posted by Jakealope

I work for a large corporation, but my dept was moved to a separate office building 2 years ago. My dept has about 35 people, and we do not have a cleaning staff. We have one cleaning woman who works for the property mgmt company, and she cleans in the early mornings only. Everyone in our office is aware that we do not have full time cleaning staff. Yet, day after day, month after month, we have many people who leave their garbage in the meeting rooms and in the kitchen area. People will sit through a meeting, and when the meetings are over they leave the paper cups, soda bottles, water bottles, candy wrappers, etc. on the meeting room table. Yet they walk right by the garbage cans on their way out. Or they make a cup of coffee in our shared kitchen, use a half of an individual serving size container of creamer and leave the other half sitting on the counter and dripping on the counter. Or they take those little stickers off fruit and leave them on the counter that we all have to share. It takes the same amount of time to throw these items in the garbage as it does to set them down on the kitchen counter.

What's is the thought process here? This behavior baffles me.

Yes this behaviour is a complete surprise to me as well. Some people, they lack the basic manners as well.

These people probably think as to why should we do it, it's not our job or something like that.

It's not a good thing

[Nickchick]

That doesn't really bother me. People are trashy everywhere. What baffles me is when people leave things like chicken bones on the ground where dogs can pick them up. Why do people just not care? I'm just waiting for one of my dogs to pick up a chicken bone or some other appealing trash without me being able to stop them and then I'll have to sue their asses for the medical bill.

[fleetiebelle]

Maybe one of those passive-aggressive "Your mother doesn't work here. Please clean up your own mess." signs is in order.