I know I said I wouldn’t gripe much about work, but I need some assurance that I’m not completely in the wrong here. (Or, if I am, I need one of you to let me know.).
The boss does a Costco trip every few months and stocks our kitchen with lots of coffee, chips, cookies, crackers, soda, and other snack items. In exchange, we have to drop in 50 cents every time we take something, just to help offset the cost. The exception to the 50 cent rule is coffee. Coffee is supplied for free. I hate coffee with a passion. I don’t like the smell, the taste, or even the look. It’s gross. I also get a little bitter that coffee drinkers get free coffee, but as a soda drinker, I have to pay. It’s not such a big deal that I bitch about it constantly (especially since I haven’t had soda since March 4th) but it’s the principle of it that makes me a little mad.
So, since we have this big fancy kitchen, we each have to take turns cleaning it. We have a schedule of when this is to be done, and what should be done. Wiping down counters, running the dishwasher, cleaning out the coffeemaker, and refilling the fridge with soda. Seems fairly easy right? Except NO ONE ever refills the fridge. Every freaking time I have to clean the kitchen, I have to dump their old coffee, wash out their coffee pot, and rinse out their filter (a great big EWW on that one, by the way) and yet none of the coffee drinkers can ever get their lazy asses to refill the fridge. Even the ones that drink the soda!! I mean, if everyone fills it every day, it should only take a couple seconds. I filled it on my assigned last day before surgery (March 12th or 13th or so). When I went to fill it last Wednesday (April 16th), my first time on kitchen duty since I came back to work, there was no soda in the fridge. None. No one had filled it in a month. I was furious. I know I’m not the only one who drinks soda here (and I don’t even drink it anymore!) so you’d think that someone else would notice it’s empty. Either they didn’t notice, or they noticed and didn’t care. But I think they noticed and didn’t care, as I saw several of them drinking soda after I’d refilled the fridge.
So my complaint is this: Why should I follow the rules and be forced to clean up after coffee drinkers, if they’re not going to do follow the rules and restock the soda? I mean, it’s not like I ask them to rinse out my cans and throw them in the recycle bin. I just ask that they refill the fridge. ESPECIALLY if they’re removing soda from the fridge!