Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Microwaves at Work
You would think that by the time a person becomes a worker in an office, they'd have some experience with microwave ovens. Why do people mess up microwave ovens so much? Today, I brought some leftovers for lunch and went to warm them up in the microwave. Sounds simple, except for the people around the office.
How many times have you gone to use the office microwave and find something cooking in it and no one is around? The bell dings. Do you take it out and start cooking yours or do you wait for someone to show up? The idiot I was waiting on was no where to be found, and his hot pocket had leaked cheese all over the turntable. The janitor keeps paper towels on top of the microwave to stop this kind of stuff. He knows it's too hard for someone to reach more than 12 inches to grab a paper towel. He also keeps a plastic cover to prevent spattering the oven. This guy didn't, so hot, melted cheese was all over the oven. At least it hadn't splattered all over the inside of the oven. At that point I wandered off to find another microwave in the building.
When I came back after eating to clean my container, there was another guy using the microwave who had taken out the item that had been in there. Naturally whoever put it in there wasn't around when it finished. She came in as he was heating his, and rather pointedly asked him if her's had finished before he'd taken it out. If she wouldv'e have waited the entire three long minutes it took to heat her food up, she wouldn't have had to ask.
These are some serious microwave ovens too. You don't have to wait long before they heat up (and spill) whatever you stick in them. I think if you're not around when the bell dings, the next person waiting should take yours out, start heating theirs, and you have to wait until they finish (unless they leave too).
