Back in the day when staff worked in places called offices , there was always a sign in the communal kitchen that reads along the lines of, ‘Please do your own washing-up, washing up fairies do not live here’. What A Crock of Crap that is !!! In most cases instead of washing up, staff just take a new mug out of the cupboard.
Talking of office mugs, if you ever want to see world war three in an office, simply use someone else’s mug on your tea break. I have seen people go ruddy mental! . And Christ! If one of these mugs ever goes missing, major search parties are organised, rewards are offered, and everyone in the entire business is involved in the hunt.
Well, let me let you in on a secret; the chances are when a mug goes missing, the cleaner probably broke it doing the washing up. In fairness, if you guys hadn’t left the mugs in such an enormous and precarious pile, it wouldn’t have been vulnerable to disaster in the first place. Besides, cleaners normally get blamed for everything.
Of course there are some places we clean that staff actually do their own washing up. But it cracks me up when looking at the state of some of the communal kitchen sponges they use. And they worry about people using their mugs!
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While you are at it get soup cubes. They make one cup of soup and once frozen, just add to a small pot and turn on the heat.
I do, I switched to daily driving GNU/Linux a year ago. Use duckduckgo and ungoogled-chromium. I'm a huge advocate for FOSS. I recommend everyone to do so, your morale feels much better
Some ideas if your workplace has these stupid toilets:
An easy to sanitize foam toilet seat riser to put near the edge of the toilet (originally for Brazilian butt lift folks) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WM3XPYD/
A travel foldable Squatty Potty https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWSGRYG/
Let me know if they work!
Well either then just spreading awareness you can donate to the unions strike fund if you feel like it and have extra money
https://opencollective.com/withheld-stipends
Even just sending a message of solidarity over social media can be helpful as well
Get a physical jiggler that doesn't connect to your computer. IT can detect apps, and USB dongle solutions, but one plugged into the wall that you placed your mouse on and physically moves it around cannot be easily detected. I say "easily" because I'm sure if someone was inclined and motivated, they could notice the movement is consistently minor and constant.
Link to the one I bought: Beautiful Mouse Mover, Jiggler, Keeps PC Active, Undetectable, No Software, Moves Mouse Randomly Automatically, Texas Born, with US and Imported Parts https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V73BX53/ref=cm_sw_r_apanp_sveytoc1gmBES