> The kitchen area, despite being an office staffed with supposed professionals, is always a mess. How does this happen?
It's a common space, so it's nobody's. Especially in an environment like that, a collection of separated individuals
It's a common space, so it's nobody's. Especially in an environment like that, a collection of separated individuals
In an office with a dozen or more people there's a pretty high chance there's at least one person who is lazy, "too important" and/or "too busy" to clean up after themselves.
> a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.
I don’t see why it should be different anywhere else. Some people just aren’t good at being responsible.
That said, I've worked in an office where the company took a nagging/shaming/signs/emails approach instead of upping the cleaning budget as the team grew, which was frustrating and ineffective. Encouraging people to clean up after themselves is good, but if it's not immediately effective the rest of us shouldn't have to live in filth while we try to get the worst offenders in line.
They look like trailer park post tornado except for right after the help has been there.