http://www.jobacle.com/blog/2009/5/7/the-tale-of-the-poisoned-office.html

The best solution I have seen to keep shared refrigerators clean is to have a policy clearly stated on the front of the frig – “Refrigerator is cleaned out on Fridays – anything left in here after 5:00 pm on Friday will be thrown out!” Then do it.

Everyplace that I have worked with such a policy has never had a problem with yucky stuff in the frig.

“What in your office makes you want to wear a hazmat suit to work?”

Can I answer “fellow employees”?

I once worked in a place where a guy would not shower for days on end. Everyone in this company except those in management positions shared an office. No one would share an office with him. There were several days that I would get on the elevator and know that he had ridden in it within the last 30 minutes because his “aroma” would linger that long. I would get out and take the stairs. Every so often his manager would tell him to go home and not come back until he cleaned up. While I understand he was a brilliant software programmer, the amount of time spent by everyone else “working around” him wasn’t worth it.

Another place I worked – a document production center – had one manager-type employee who had a reputation for not washing his hands after using the restroom. This reputation was based on fact. (And I can tell you that men must gossip just as much as women; because ALL the women in the office knew this fact too) No one wanted to handle the documents that he had just handled. Often production assistants would tell him to set the papers down on the desk instead of taking them into their hands.

One day a previous employee came into work to show everyone her new baby. I had just been in the restroom and noticed that “jack” hadn’t washed his hands. When I came out; there was “jack” with the new mom and her baby sticking his “dirty” fingers in the kids cheek talking baby talk. I so wanted to scream!