People Suck #7

They make me boggle, they really do.

It's not uncommon in this office for people to leave unwashed dishes in the sink. I can deal with that. The drain stinks, probably because so much food has been washed down there, but that's not a big deal. The dishwasher only gets put on at night so if you want to stop food turning into a solidified mess before it's ready then I suppose it makes some kind of sense.

But today I went to make my first cup of tea and found somebody had left 3 tea bags sitting in the sink. Why? The bin is right opposite the sink, about 3 feet away. You could literally turn round and drop the tea bags and they'd go in. Somebody took those tea bags out of cups and put them in there. On purpose. What were they thinking? Did they plan on coming back to them later? Wash the soapy water out of them and use them a second time? Do they have a collection of tea bags which require proper decontamination before they can go into storage? I mean you wouldn't want rancid milk in your collection, would you?

I just can't fathom it. We recycle a lot in here now (which I've been pushing for years) but even if you weren't sure which bin the tea bags should go into you'd look around to see what other people have done with them. You'd look in the 4 recycling bins and find no tea bags, then you'd look in the proper rubbish bin and see loads of them. Job done.

Sometimes I think they do it deliberately so that people have to ask.