I work in a nursing home. We have a "office fridge, " a medicine fridge, and a fridge for food that we use, like pt glucerna, orange juice, applesauce, pudding etc. If I bring a drink or a sandwich I usually just slide it into the "medical food" fridge since it's under lock and key and only a few of us have a key.
I keep a piece of Christmas fruit cake, and a loaf of Aldi Cherry Stollen (only sold over the holidays) in the work freezer to enjoy in the summer. Nobody touches it.
Only in emergencies. We have to share cubes, so you can only personalize for your shift, then take everything back to your locker. Unless you're a parent. Then you can mark your territory with pics of your troglodyte demonspawn. But if I forget my mouse pad with a joke about binary, not only will it get stolen, but everyone acts like it's my own fault. Even if I point out the perpetrator, the boss calls me in to talk about my "confrontatial" attitude. He has a bachelors degree in technical writing! How?! So, bottom line is, no fridge in my cube. No trust that the gutter rats won't steal my lunch from the office fridge. No time to go out for lunch. Warm lunch stored in my locker for the foreseeable future. I need a new job, or a promotion. The next level up has their own offices with enough space for a full-size fridge and oven.
2 full fridges... For the building of about 45. In my area, we have 17 of those folks. In that room, including mine (although not as cool looking as this one), we have 6 mini fridges. It's great.
Work from home, fridge shared with my beloved other half, the cat, and sometimes the other halfs troglodyte demonspawn.
At one office i worked in, a coworker transferred from another office. In my office, we had a mini fridge and people were careful not to steal or ruin your stuff. Incoming coworker came from an office where anything unlabeled was free game. So, he labeled all his soda with a strip of paper under a rubberband saying 'This is Dirk's soda'. For April Fools, the secretary and I made up slips, and labeled EVERYTHING in the fridge with things like 'This is not Dirk's Ranch Dressing', 'This is not Dirk's questionable old orange', 'This is not Dirk's empty ice cube tray'. We also labeled everything in his office.
He was out of the office for a week, and didn't get that it was a prank until he saw everything in the fridge.
I have my own mini fridge at work, because people are bitches and like to steal my hot pockets.
@lichme speaking of work...
@thismyusername where can i order those? i need millions!!!!
@thismyusername Those would be great for the "Everyone is a winner" generation. They need so many pats on the back to get through the week.
Where's "Some other answer I'll inflict on innocent people in the forum"?
@editorkid right here!
@JonT Oh! Well... that.
I'm a science teacher and we have a fridge in the prep room. I try to avoid using it for obvious reasons....
The only problem with the fridge at work is the icemaker. I've been tempted to get one of those tabletop icemakers to solve that deficiency.
I work in a nursing home. We have a "office fridge, " a medicine fridge, and a fridge for food that we use, like pt glucerna, orange juice, applesauce, pudding etc. If I bring a drink or a sandwich I usually just slide it into the "medical food" fridge since it's under lock and key and only a few of us have a key.
Some variation of "maybe" you'll discuss in the forums
The fridge at my place of work is actually pretty well cared-for.
Mostly I use the freezer.
I keep a piece of Christmas fruit cake, and a loaf of Aldi Cherry Stollen (only sold over the holidays) in the work freezer to enjoy in the summer. Nobody touches it.
Only in emergencies. We have to share cubes, so you can only personalize for your shift, then take everything back to your locker. Unless you're a parent. Then you can mark your territory with pics of your troglodyte demonspawn. But if I forget my mouse pad with a joke about binary, not only will it get stolen, but everyone acts like it's my own fault. Even if I point out the perpetrator, the boss calls me in to talk about my "confrontatial" attitude. He has a bachelors degree in technical writing! How?! So, bottom line is, no fridge in my cube. No trust that the gutter rats won't steal my lunch from the office fridge. No time to go out for lunch. Warm lunch stored in my locker for the foreseeable future. I need a new job, or a promotion. The next level up has their own offices with enough space for a full-size fridge and oven.
2 full fridges... For the building of about 45. In my area, we have 17 of those folks. In that room, including mine (although not as cool looking as this one), we have 6 mini fridges. It's great.
Work from home, with my very own fridge.
Work from home, fridge shared with my beloved other half, the cat, and sometimes the other halfs troglodyte demonspawn.
At one office i worked in, a coworker transferred from another office. In my office, we had a mini fridge and people were careful not to steal or ruin your stuff. Incoming coworker came from an office where anything unlabeled was free game. So, he labeled all his soda with a strip of paper under a rubberband saying 'This is Dirk's soda'. For April Fools, the secretary and I made up slips, and labeled EVERYTHING in the fridge with things like 'This is not Dirk's Ranch Dressing', 'This is not Dirk's questionable old orange', 'This is not Dirk's empty ice cube tray'. We also labeled everything in his office.
He was out of the office for a week, and didn't get that it was a prank until he saw everything in the fridge.