Office Notice

daviesee

New sign up in the office -

BULLYING -
CUT IT OUT

Two questions:-

1. Or what?
2. Isn't that a form of bullying?

Any from your office?

arran77

We love daft signs here, we have one on the back of the door to trap 1 that says something along the lines of 'Please respect your colleagues and any visitors using this toilet, if you make a mess, please clean it up' :shock:

We also have one in the kitchen by the water boiler asking whoever is stealing the teaspoons to please return them

Croptonboy

Is bullying a problem in your office then?

JackPozzi

We had one along the lines of "post an abusive message on a social network site and it will be the last message you post" which I always found to be a tad aggressive. Just glad it didn't threaten that we'd be sleeping with the fish...

IanREmery

At my old place someone put a sign up on the wall of the mens' toilets saying "Urinals Out of Order".

The urinals and associated piping had already been removed, so thanks for the warning, I was just going to p1ss all over the wall and wonder why the yellow stuff wasn't disappearing.

Same jobsworth a week later put a sign up on the cubicle door saying "toilet out of order". The toilet had been removed and was currently sitting in another corner of the room. No censored Sherlock...

I was glad to get out of that place.

arran77

IanREmery wrote:

At my old place someone put a sign up on the wall of the mens' toilets saying "Urinals Out of Order".

The urinals and associated piping had already been removed, so thanks for the warning, I was just going to p1ss all over the wall and wonder why the yellow stuff wasn't disappearing.

Same jobsworth a week later put a sign up on the cubicle door saying "toilet out of order". The toilet had been removed and was currently sitting in another corner of the room. No censored Sherlock...

I was glad to get out of that place.

You didn't used to work where I do did you

greasedscotsman

Previous place I worked had a toilet cubicle which had the note "Out of order, please drop your bombs next door" pinned to it. Few weeks later it had "Toilet now fixed, bombs away".

daviesee

Croptonboy wrote:

Is bullying a problem in your office then?

I don't think so but maybe I am the bully. :?

Even more worrying, it is in the disabled toilet and it is the only one.
I use the disabled toilet as a changing room.

IanREmery

arran77 wrote:

IanREmery wrote:

At my old place someone put a sign up on the wall of the mens' toilets saying "Urinals Out of Order".

The urinals and associated piping had already been removed, so thanks for the warning, I was just going to p1ss all over the wall and wonder why the yellow stuff wasn't disappearing.

Same jobsworth a week later put a sign up on the cubicle door saying "toilet out of order". The toilet had been removed and was currently sitting in another corner of the room. No censored Sherlock...

I was glad to get out of that place.

You didn't used to work where I do did you

Cwmbran?! (I was glad to escape Cwmbran as well as my previous job tbh. I've seen morgue's with more life in them than that place).

Croptonboy

daviesee wrote:

Croptonboy wrote:

Is bullying a problem in your office then?

I don't think so but maybe I am the bully. :?

Even more worrying, it is in the disabled toilet and it is the only one.
I use the disabled toilet as a changing room.

Carry on as normal, and if the sign then appears on your desk, question answered

simonhead

A pub near me used to change its unruly children sign each week. Generally they suggested the little nuggets would be met with a gruesome end if they didn't behave.

Where I work now there is a sign asking people not to steal coffee and milk.

Pross

Just get some scissors and do what they tell you then.

Pross

IanREmery wrote:

arran77 wrote:

IanREmery wrote:

At my old place someone put a sign up on the wall of the mens' toilets saying "Urinals Out of Order".

The urinals and associated piping had already been removed, so thanks for the warning, I was just going to p1ss all over the wall and wonder why the yellow stuff wasn't disappearing.

Same jobsworth a week later put a sign up on the cubicle door saying "toilet out of order". The toilet had been removed and was currently sitting in another corner of the room. No censored Sherlock...

I was glad to get out of that place.

You didn't used to work where I do did you

Cwmbran?! (I was glad to escape Cwmbran as well as my previous job tbh. I've seen morgue's with more life in them than that place).

What's wrong with Cwmbran? At least it isn't Newport!!

daviesee

Pross wrote:

Just get some scissors and do what they tell you then.

:P

Kieran_Burns

I got told off by my boss for taking him at his word when he told me to label everything in the Server room.

He came back a couple of hours later to see dymo labels stuck to things such as:

Window
Door
Floor
Rack
Air conditioning
Door handle
Keyboard
Mouse
Phone
Light Switch
Light
Plug

I think the bit that really got him was when he came over to give me a bollocking, I had an "Engineer" label on my shirt.

IanREmery

Pross wrote:

IanREmery wrote:

arran77 wrote:

IanREmery wrote:

At my old place someone put a sign up on the wall of the mens' toilets saying "Urinals Out of Order".

The urinals and associated piping had already been removed, so thanks for the warning, I was just going to p1ss all over the wall and wonder why the yellow stuff wasn't disappearing.

Same jobsworth a week later put a sign up on the cubicle door saying "toilet out of order". The toilet had been removed and was currently sitting in another corner of the room. No censored Sherlock...

I was glad to get out of that place.

You didn't used to work where I do did you

Cwmbran?! (I was glad to escape Cwmbran as well as my previous job tbh. I've seen morgue's with more life in them than that place).

What's wrong with Cwmbran? At least it isn't Newport!!

About the only thing it's got going for it. That and free parking...

Genuinely? spent three years there and thought it's a soul-less place. No energy, little hope.

shortcuts

At a place I once worked somebody got into the habit either on nights or very early of using the same cubicle and always leaving a skidmark down the back of the bowl. The cleaner left a note on the back of the cubicle door; "Please use the brush provided to clean away any mess"
To which some wag added;
"And go see your doctor, your ar$ehole appears to be in the wrong place"!

Pross

It's not that bad (well, it is but it shines like a beacon sandwiched between the ghost town that is Pontypool and the slum that is Newport ) but yes, it suffers from New Town syndrome. You can't just create a town, they have to evolve. I worked there for years (County Hall) and live within about 5 miles and whilst not a fan it is convenient and there's far worse in the area.

IanREmery

Pross wrote:

It's not that bad (well, it is but it shines like a beacon sandwiched between the ghost town that is Pontypool and the slum that is Newport ) but yes, it suffers from New Town syndrome. You can't just create a town, they have to evolve. I worked there for years (County Hall) and live within about 5 miles and whilst not a fan it is convenient and there's far worse in the area.

That's very true, there are worse areas. I live in the Rhondda which isn't exactly sparkling but do work in central Cardiff which is a stunning city.

Peddle Up!

arran77 wrote:

We love daft signs here, we have one on the back of the door to trap 1 that says something along the lines of 'Please respect your colleagues and any visitors using this toilet, if you make a mess, please clean it up' :shock:

We also have one in the kitchen by the water boiler asking whoever is stealing the teaspoons to please return them

If the teaspoons are being stolen to clean up the mess, believe me, you don't want them back. :?

mpatts

IN our work toilets there is a polite sign saying "Please leave these facilities as you would wish to find them"

So I left a copy of Ned Boultings "in search of the nations cycling soul".*



*I did consider a jazz mag, but felt this was perhaps not in the spirit of a productivity drive.

dmclite-3.0

Slight deviation from OP, but on my commute I go past some dodgy pubs through Gravesend, Ebbsfleet, Greenhythe etc, and on the blackboard on one pronouncing the daily specials/upcoming events they had written, "Lager and Fighting", which was truthful, accurate and cheered me up.

arran77

Peddle Up! wrote:

arran77 wrote:

We love daft signs here, we have one on the back of the door to trap 1 that says something along the lines of 'Please respect your colleagues and any visitors using this toilet, if you make a mess, please clean it up' :shock:

We also have one in the kitchen by the water boiler asking whoever is stealing the teaspoons to please return them

If the teaspoons are being stolen to clean up the mess, believe me, you don't want them back. :?

Perhaps I ought to point this out to the management :P

clickrumble

We have a helpful safety notice in our office asking people descending the stairs to please use the banister!

David6708

Our work toilet used to have a laminated poem:

"We like this little place of ours and try to keep it neat. So please control your dirty hole and don't s*** on the seat"

daviesee

clickrumble wrote:

We have a helpful safety notice in our office asking people descending the stairs to please use the banister!

I appreciate the meaningless gesture of holding onto a banister whilst using stairs (which I have never had an incident on even when utterly banjaxed) just prior to doing battle with vehicles protected only with lycra and some polystyrene on my head.

MichaelW

"Dogs must be carried on the escalator"

What happens if you don't have a dog.
Can you borrow a dog from someone come off the escalator and hand it to a dogless person at the end of your ride?
What happens at the end of the day? Does the last person take the dog home?

redvee

A sign in the changing rooms at work was written by the victim of 'keying' where somebody ran a key down the side of his car basically asking for info and asking how you'd feel in his position. Comments added below are sensible such as shift, CCTV etc as well as the stupid ones like 'stay away from my wife' and 'have you tried T-Cut?'
Another sign in by the goods in office was typed without using the F7 key.

:oops:

daviesee

redvee wrote:

A sign in the changing rooms at work was written by the victim of 'keying' where somebody ran a key down the side of his car basically asking for info and asking how you'd feel in his position. Comments added below are sensible such as shift, CCTV etc as well as the stupid ones like 'stay away from my wife' and 'have you tried T-Cut?'
Another sign in by the goods in office was typed without using the F7 key.

There could be a clue in there as to why the car was keyed.

Sirius631

So, what happens now? Does some illiterate person go out and push them over?

ddraver

daviesee wrote:

clickrumble wrote:

We have a helpful safety notice in our office asking people descending the stairs to please use the banister!

I appreciate the meaningless gesture of holding onto a banister whilst using stairs (which I have never had an incident on even when utterly banjaxed) just prior to doing battle with vehicles protected only with lycra and some polystyrene on my head.

The biggest thing putting me off working for a big oil company (my trade) is bullsugar like this!