Cleaning Office Fridge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work in a Fed office which has no cafeteria and no nearby restaurants so everyone brown bags.

We have shared fridges which are NEVER cleaned by maintenance staff.

They are starting to smell ; I use a cooler so don’t need the fridge, but the kitchen is starting to stink and I do need to use that to wash dishes , get water etc.

Maintenance said I could post a note for people to empty the fridge by a certain date

On that date, can I go through and throw away expired and unmarked food? Some of it will be Tupperware containers that have been here for months (it could be people who RIF or retired for example) but who know its history.

Can I get in trouble for throwing away things, I can’t get a clear answer from the staff (the people who used to manage them VERAed).

How do other people handle bad fridge etiquette?

I don't use the shared fridge for anything unless I absolutely have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Work in a Fed office which has no cafeteria and no nearby restaurants so everyone brown bags.

We have shared fridges which are NEVER cleaned by maintenance staff.

They are starting to smell ; I use a cooler so don’t need the fridge, but the kitchen is starting to stink and I do need to use that to wash dishes , get water etc.

Maintenance said I could post a note for people to empty the fridge by a certain date

On that date, can I go through and throw away expired and unmarked food? Some of it will be Tupperware containers that have been here for months (it could be people who RIF or retired for example) but who know its history.

Can I get in trouble for throwing away things, I can’t get a clear answer from the staff (the people who used to manage them VERAed).

How do other people handle bad fridge etiquette?

I don't use the shared fridge for anything unless I absolutely have to.

Again, I don’t want use the fridge, just the kitchen occasion for water or washing something.

But the smell of fridge is stinking up kitchen and spreading to offices

[Anonymous]

We had this in our Fed office. We put up big signs for about 1 week telling people to throw out expired items. Then another women and I just threw away the items that were old and stinky. That seems to have done the trick - people are getting a little more careful.