[hackerspaces] Cleanliness in your Hackerspace?

[Koen Martens]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:23:29AM +0200, Elliot Lee wrote:
> I suggest putting up signs, using a labelmaker or similar. Just stick them
> near problem areas. A lot of people, myself included, will read and follow
> instructions that are clear, unambiguous, and ubiquitous.
> 
> "NO EMPTY BOTTLES"
> 
> "NO TRASH HERE"
> 
> "TAKE OUT ALL PIZZA BOXES"
> 
> "WASH YOUR OWN DISHES"
> 
> "WASH HANDS BEFORE USING COMPUTER"
> 
> Signs and labels work on me a lot better than shouting, cussing or cursing.

We went down that road, but it got a bit out of hand. We have labels everywhere,
and they sort of work like ads on the internet. You automatically filter them out
in your brain. We now have signs saying 'watch out, sign around the corner' and
stickers 'please do not empty bowels here'.

-gmc

> 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, h0uz3 <h0uz3 at foto23.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How good or bad does it work in your space to keep it clean and tidy?
> >
> > Recently I have to yell at people regularly to make them put away their
> > empty bottles or spend half an our a day to collect these empty bottles and
> > paper from snacks or whole pizza boxes (sometimes even with alive pizza in
> > it). Is there a good solution for this?
> >
> > People very often don't clean the kitchen after using it or just put their
> > tables on the counter istead of checking if there's some space left in the
> > dish washer and/or turning it on and/or taking the dishes out and putting
> > it where it belongs.
> >
> > We clean the space every weekend completely, people clean up the kitchen,
> > get rid of old paper and pizza boxes and stuff, but during the week a lot
> > of people seem to just leave their wast right where they were and leave "in
> > a hurry". Sometimes the cleaning rage isn't over for 24 ours and the
> > kitchen looks even worse than before.
> >
> > Somehow I feel like enough people don't care to mess up the whole place.
> >
> > Best example: I wanted to use my computer and found it with a gooey
> > keyboard and mouse. Cleaned it thoroughly. Same thing happened the next
> > day, this time the mouse ball wasn't working anymore.
> >
> > I guess shouting, cussing and cursing at people all the time makes the
> > space even less likable than it's already by being so filthy...
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > </h0uz3>
> >
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