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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fed here.  This is some crazy stuff.

Not part of an admin's description of duties in the gov.  Although we do argue over who cleans out the fridge and it ends up on the admin many times.  Our admin would send around nice, funny emails, then throw everything out by a certain date, but not get in there and clean it out.

And of course we don't have dishes and flatware in our pantry, you bring your own, and clean up after yourself or find your stuff in the trash.

How does admin equal "the help"?

I was an admin very early in my career but our building didn't have pantries, I never cleaned up anything.  I had a job at the front desk in an HR office, so we had people coming and going, busy work for me was filing, not cleaning up after my coworkers that I supported.

Now I understand why people who come in from private industry lose their mind and say inappropriate things when we don't have cups, water service, or someone cleaning their dish they left in the sink. We will now be able to supply soap at the kitchen sinks, only due to COVID. 
(We don't bc your tax dollars would be paying for something that has nothing to do with the work we were hired to do)

Why would't you negotiate that service in your daily cleaning contract for the building?

Cray[/quote]

This. When I went to work for the government after the private sector, I was shocked on one of my first days when I couldn’t find a fork to eat my lunch!  I learned to bring my own—and wash my own. We don’t even have dishwashers and, as noted above, sometimes ran out of soap (because it was brought in on a volunteer basis, at least pre-COVID).

If anything, when we have office-wide events, it is almost always management that is responsible for clean-up, as a gesture to show how much we appreciate the hard work of all of the office’s employees. [/quote]

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