Quote: -----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:24 AM
To: EntireFirm
Subject: Microwave Update

The microwave is waving again. Those of you conducting stem cell research and other scientific experiments in the microwave, please clean up your explosions. On a disgusting scale the microwave was somewhere between table number five's rendition of Silent Night at last year's Christmas party and the xxxxxx refrigerator. Let's try and keep it clean!

Email from the company controller. What's your company kitchen look like?

Andrea
who doesn't even use that microwave *gag*

The "company" kitchens I've had are usually pretty clean; it's fairly easy when you have a bunch of soldiers using it to ensure that they clean up after themselves. The unit usually sold drinks and snacks out of the fridge.

My biggest complaint are people who make popcorn in the microwave and burn it. It stinks up the entire building! By consensus we revoked a colonel and a lieutenant colonel's "license to operate" the microwave in the future.

--naomi

When I left KTRK, there was a band-new kitchen set up in the central part of second-floor engineering for the overnight and master control engineers to use. It had quite a lot of countertop space and cabinets to hold everything.

Of course, they ended up keeping everything in the hallway right outside of the master control area, in the way of everyone, just because it was closer to the engineers.

So did they get rid of the new unused kitchen for desperately-needed office space or more workbench areas? Hell no.

Idiots...

We've actually done pretty well, kitchen wise.

There are 130 or so in our headquarters office. We have several coffee stations and a large kitchen. The kitchen has two regular sized fridges, two microwaves, an upper and lower oven and a bunch of cabinets stocked with utensils, plates, etc. Everything goes pretty well except for stuff left in the fridge until way past expiration.

I think one issue that contributes is that we buy lunch every Friday for the entire company and have it delivered in. Most of the leftovers go home, but if three pounds of a side dish or something that no one wants, the stuff migrates to the fridge, left there to spoil.

One of our satellite offices has it better. They have similar type of furnishings, but had the kitchen built out of a large room. There's a huge pool table in the corner.

Eight ball, potato salad side pocket.