CUBE LIFE: Office Etiquette

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Muslims must wash their feet before prayer. I don't think it is unfair or wrong for a Muslim to wash their feet in the sink if they have no other option.

Yes, it is wrong. They could bring their own basin from home, fill it and then wash their feet in that. That is their other option.

[Flashpoint]

Option 3: We could all stop doing stupid shart in the name of religion.

[Oil Stain]

Originally Posted by Reaper

Yes, it is wrong. They could bring their own basin from home, fill it and then wash their feet in that. That is their other option.

Now that's just plain old fashioned common sense.

[ZedMan]

Eh, I'll take feet-washing anyday over those guys that seem to think it's acceptable to hork a giant loogie into the sink.

[Inglewood Jack]

there was a couple of weeks this year where someone was mysteriously coating one of our sinks with bloody snot. the hell? just regular snot would be bad enough, but how much was this dude blowing/picking for it to be crimson all the time?

I will trade you one blood snotter for all the foot washers you have in your office, deal?

[GirlySports]

Some people are so rude.

Lady comes to my cubicle..

Lady: "Excuse me, I'm looking for so and so".
Me: "oh, she's a couple of squares down the hall, by the window"

Lady walks over there

Lady: "Hi! So this is where you are!"
So-and-So: "yeah, I've been sitting here for almost 2 years, are you not paying attention?"

I would not keep a person like that. Again it's the other team that shares our floor. My team tries to be super polite.

[saillias]

Sorry who is the rude one in that situation?

[mrkajz44]

To be honest, I am having a hard time envisioning how someone washes their feet in a washroom sink without sitting on the coutner or getting water everywhere.

Is this just me?

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by saillias

Sorry who is the rude one in that situation?

The narcissist who thinks everyone should be paying attention to their every move.`

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

To be honest, I am having a hard time envisioning how someone washes their feet in a washroom sink without sitting on the coutner or getting water everywhere.

Is this just me?

Oh he got water everywhere. Worse yet he never wiped it up. Ironically he got let go for getting into a physical altercation with an Asian guy over differing religious beliefs. Both long time employees too.

[zukes]

So I mentioned that I am in an office now and that I love it. One thing I don't like is the false sense of security it gives you. Some days after you've had a pile of beers the night before you may have a little case of the beer farts. If you're at a cubicle, you're holding those bad boys in as much as possible, maybe going for a walk to a buddy's desk at the other side of the office to leave them a present. But in your office you figure, let'er rip. I would say 96.8% of the time, someone comes in right at the peak of the stench. It almost never fails. I feel so bad for those people, you know that they are fighting the urge to cry or run out screaming.

[saillias]

Originally Posted by Dan02

The narcissist who thinks everyone should be paying attention to their every move.`

I see things from that person's POV too, in his/her eyes the approacher looks like a thoughtless twit... It's kind of like when, you've met someone, but never really learned their name, at some point it's too late to ask or you look pretty ditzy. Just MO

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by saillias

I see things from that person's POV too, in his/her eyes the approacher looks like a thoughtless twit... It's kind of like when, you've met someone, but never really learned their name, at some point it's too late to ask or you look pretty ditzy. Just MO

Even so I wouldn't answer like that. The lady was in a higher position and from a different floor. I don't expect in a company of 200+ for everyone to know where I sit.

and sometimes people say something to make small talk like: "HI! So this is where you are, it's so nice here by the window"

[rotten42]

wow....a lot of you work in really crappy office environments. Our office sent out a code of conduct document when we did our renovation. It covered things from speaker phones, meetings in cubes to all the crap some people feel they need to decorate their cube with. There have been a few hic-ups but all in all it has worked out great. People understand that in the cube areas that is more for heads down work and not the social area. We built in areas for that that people can use. We also have a wide variety of meeting spaces that people can use. It just keeps the noise out of your workspace. It's also nice that our office is wireless so you can work anywhere in the office.

[Huntingwhale]

I once caught a lady at my work gargling in the kitchen sink. I had no problem telling her that it was f'ing disgusting and she hasn't done it since.

[East Coast Flame]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

there was a couple of weeks this year where someone was mysteriously coating one of our sinks with bloody snot. the hell? just regular snot would be bad enough, but how much was this dude blowing/picking for it to be crimson all the time?

I will trade you one blood snotter for all the foot washers you have in your office, deal?

There has been a bloody booger above our urinal for about three months now. It's amazing. How did it get there? Who would just leave it there? Does the person who left it giggle to themselves when they see it every day?

[Erick Estrada]

There was a guy picking his nose and wiping his boogers on the bathroom stall walls. What goes through the minds of some adults? Why in this day and age are people still so filthy and inconsiderate?

[Locke]

I hated working in huge offices. Being surrounded by people constantly is my own personal hell so I'm glad I've got my own office where I can do whatever I want without being bothered by anyone else or bothering anyone else.

I can microwave my socks if I want and theres not a thing anyone can do about it.

[habernac]

The way we took care of the whole "I'll leave my dirty dishes in the sink" thing here was by throwing those dishes in the garbage.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Locke

I hated working in huge offices. Being surrounded by people constantly is my own personal hell so I'm glad I've got my own office where I can do whatever I want without being bothered by anyone else or bothering anyone else.

I can microwave my socks if I want and theres not a thing anyone can do about it.

Its your office, but trust me, you don't want to do that. It doesn't dry them any faster and its terrible. Just sayin.

On topic, speaker phone should be disabled from office phones. There is never a good reason unless you're the only one there.