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Orrex

(63,215 posts) Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:16 AM Jul 2016

My company does a monthly clean-out of each kitchenette's refrigerator

Last edited Mon Aug 1, 2016, 11:37 AM - Edit history (1)

The idea is to prevent long term accumulation of forgotten containers, etc. They typically send a bulk email announcing the sweep a week before it happens, with a reminder at 5 days, 3 days and same day. They also post a printed notice on each fridge with an additional reminder, but those reminders are rather drab.

So I started taping sonnets to the notices in hope of jazzing it up a bit. Made it nine months before some stick in the mud ruined it.

The workplace is no place for poetry, alas.

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My company does a monthly clean-out of each kitchenette's refrigerator (Original Post) Orrex Jul 2016 OP

The weeks before and after Xmas holiday are the worse in my company benld74 Jul 2016 #1

You should take pictures of the notes and sonnets and post them online csziggy Jul 2016 #2

Honestly, I was wondering if someone else would do it Orrex Jul 2016 #3

Oh, get over yourself. sl8 Jul 2016 #4

That was excellent. Orrex Jul 2016 #6

Thanks - just trying to fill in for pinboy3niner sl8 Jul 2016 #8

I hear that tradition was started... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2016 #5

Next time, limericks. "There once was a yogurt from Easter,......." WinkyDink Jul 2016 #7

Oh yeah? Orrex Jul 2016 #10

... Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2016 #12

I just read this now (been away). BRAVO!! WinkyDink Aug 2016 #16

Thank you, thank you Orrex Aug 2016 #17

At my office, people are naming thier food in the refrigerator, Blue Dalek Jul 2016 #9

lol - good one! patricia92243 Aug 2016 #11

my thanks to you and all who posted here for great laughs to start my day!! niyad Aug 2016 #13

Just for you: Orrex Aug 2016 #14

some days we just NEED purple (my thanks to my red hat sisters!!) niyad Aug 2016 #15

benld74

(9,904 posts)

1. The weeks before and after Xmas holiday are the worse in my company

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 11:31 AM

Jul 2016

Last year after 3 weeks I posted the following

Can the owner of the red topped contained please remove and bring home before it attacks some poor soul on of these days??

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

2. You should take pictures of the notes and sonnets and post them online

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:44 AM

Jul 2016

At Passive Aggressive Notes. A lot of those are about break room conflicts.

Orrex

(63,215 posts)

3. Honestly, I was wondering if someone else would do it

Reply to csziggy (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:58 PM

Jul 2016

I have a lot of coworkers who can't take out their phones without Snapchatting a pic of themselves taking out their phones, so I was surprised that one or two of them didn't grab a pic.

I ended it when someone else started taping unfunny meme-captions alongside my offerings. I didn't want it to turn into a pissing contest or to tempt the wrath of management, so I pulled the plug.

sl8

(13,787 posts)

4. Oh, get over yourself.

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:08 PM

Jul 2016

Just another poet with a reefer problem.

Orrex

(63,215 posts)

6. That was excellent.

Reply to sl8 (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:24 PM

Jul 2016

sl8

(13,787 posts)

8. Thanks - just trying to fill in for pinboy3niner

Reply to Orrex (Reply #6)

Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:35 PM

Jul 2016

Darn guy is sleeping on the job!

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)

5. I hear that tradition was started...

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:09 PM

Jul 2016

...about a hundred years ago by Alexander Fleming.

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)

7. Next time, limericks. "There once was a yogurt from Easter,......."

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 04:57 PM

Jul 2016

Orrex

(63,215 posts)

10. Oh yeah?

Reply to WinkyDink (Reply #7)

Sun Jul 31, 2016, 03:37 PM

Jul 2016

There once was a yogurt from Easter
That would make a most terrible feast, for
The stink of that culture
Could strangle a vulture
Or knock you right onto your keister.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,840 posts)

12. ...

Reply to Orrex (Reply #10)

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 11:31 AM

Aug 2016

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)

16. I just read this now (been away). BRAVO!!

Reply to Orrex (Reply #10)

Sun Aug 7, 2016, 07:30 PM

Aug 2016

Orrex

(63,215 posts)

17. Thank you, thank you

Reply to WinkyDink (Reply #16)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:16 AM

Aug 2016

Blue Dalek

(178 posts)

9. At my office, people are naming thier food in the refrigerator,

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Sun Jul 31, 2016, 03:19 PM

Jul 2016

Just the other day, I ate a nice chicken salad named "Kevin".

patricia92243

(12,597 posts)

11. lol - good one!

Reply to Blue Dalek (Reply #9)

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 11:21 AM

Aug 2016

niyad

(113,336 posts)

13. my thanks to you and all who posted here for great laughs to start my day!!

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 11:35 AM

Aug 2016

(and to wipe out the taste of the revolting orange creature who polluted my community this weekend)

Orrex

(63,215 posts)

14. Just for you:

Reply to niyad (Reply #13)

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 11:42 AM

Aug 2016

Upon the turning of this mortal hour
The playwright pens his weary final page,
We mourn the fallen leaf, the wilted flower,
Or weep the bedrock crumbled in its age.
As fleeting witness, each can only rage
Against that tolling bell, encroaching fate
Until at last the player leaves the stage,
To exit on that fast-approaching date.
Yet in such brave endeavor, we create
A fresh selection with each line erased.
Now come the morning, see what might await:
The new brought in, and so the old replaced.
But what remains here on that waning day
Must be at last removed and tossed away.

Purple? You betcha! Overwrought? Absolutely! In fact, that's most of the point!

I wanted them to come across as ridiculously self-serious, in counter-point to the bland and lifeless "This refrigerator will be cleaned out on 5/31/2016 at 5:00p.m."

niyad

(113,336 posts)

15. some days we just NEED purple (my thanks to my red hat sisters!!)

Reply to Orrex (Reply #14)

Mon Aug 1, 2016, 11:47 AM

Aug 2016

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