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Yeah, office refrigerators can be treacherous! Bleah!
Heh. I should forward the article to the guy who just "trained" us to ship biohazardous materials and "dangerous goods" (snooze) so we could be DOT certified. I bet it would make his day. I'm still confounded as to how he could possibly be a PhD. His noggin... just a hat rack up there.
You would think fumes could still make you ill even if you couldn't smell them. Mold and bleach together should make you sick!
Oh, man, this is hilarious...when I clean my office fridge I carry the garbage into the art building, the next building over, and deposit it in their garbage can so we in our building don't have to smell it.Don't tell the art people.
Ha! RA, you are such a rebel.I make it a policy to never use a communal fridge... waaaaaay too scary.
when i first hired on as a kid in the factory i used to work at i once brought salmon patties in for lunch and reheated them in the microwave. they had to throw it away i think because the nasty smell stayed forever. no one knew i did it but there was a big hand written sign on the new microwave that said "Know ******** FISH!!!"and that is just how it was spelled
Nice, Kevin.Sherrie, I'd avoid it if I could, but I would starve to death, or spend too much buying lunches.
The fridge upstairs is cleaned regularly, but then I run the risk of being pulled into conversation or looking anti-social. I AM anti-social, and I like it that way. I just want to read through lunch, and I'd rather put my lunch on the clean top shelf of the dirty first floor mini-fridge than talk to people.
Alas, today I have to go buy toilet paper and dish soap at lunch. Somehow those trips are ALWAYS timed to be absolutely necessary on a rainy day.
Lunch today = getting soaked AND not getting to read.
On the plus side, I have fresh very non-local pineapple.
They don't grow pineapples in Baltimore?
I haven't seen any growing in my backyard, in any case.
I keep peanut butter in a desk in my office for emergencies. No refrigeration necessary!
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "I keep peanut butter in a desk in my office for emergencies. No refrigeration necessary!"Emergency meaning you don't have anything else to get stuck on the roof of your mouth?
Being diabetic, I always set up a drawer with all kinds of snacks and usually brought my own little cooler for lunch. I usually became known as the 'snack girl' around the office, and if someone was starving &/or forgot their lunch they'd know to drop by and ask for a pkg of peanut butter crackers or instant oatmeal, etc. I was also always the one that had the holiday candy dish out, so my desk was popular ... especially around Halloween cause I'd decorate everything. When I worked at Boeing, which was a cool, relaxed atmosphere, I had a hanging rubber witch that would cackle whenever you pressed her nose. Jared's brother Joel, who I worked with before Jared & I did, used to come around just to "bite my witch". hehehe Good times.
The fridge on my floor of our office is clearly heading in that direction, and I refuse to be the one to clean it, since I have never spilled anything or left anything to rot.
Anyhow, if you ever don't hear from me for a few days, that may be the reason.