{"id":625,"date":"2017-03-22T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mydoorsign.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:16:37","slug":"office-courtesy-office-refrigerator-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mydoorsign.com/blog\/office-courtesy-office-refrigerator-etiquette\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office Courtesy Series: Office Refrigerator Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refrigerators are wonderful inventions, allowing us to store perishable food for weeks at a time. They\u2019re especially ideal to have at work\u2014we can make lunch at home, store it in the fridge at the office, and save money that would otherwise be spent on restaurant food.<\/p>\n

However, these useful ice boxes have a downside. They can become really disgusting quickly, and no one notices or seems to care. In fact, most Americans only clean their fridges once or twice a year<\/a>, and the majority doesn\u2019t know how to properly pack a fridge. For instance, many people might not know that milk or eggs shouldn\u2019t be stored in the door because it\u2019s the warmest part of the fridge.<\/p>\n

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An unclean office fridge<\/a> is unsanitary and all too common.<\/p><\/div>\n

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An unclean refrigerator is also a health issue. For example, if meat contains E. Coli, the bacteria in the drippings can fall on fruits and vegetables, which we often eat raw. This, frankly, sounds rather awful!<\/p>\n

It gets worse with a communal office refrigerator; no one at the office feels especially obligated to clean up a mess, since it\u2019s not their fridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople throw stuff in the fridge and then it\u2019s there for a long time and starts to smell bad,\u201d says Barbara Kentworthy, employee of MyDoorSign<\/a>. \u201cThe worst problem is that people have to be shamed into doing it (cleaning the fridge) until it really starts smelling bad. Then the same two people who can\u2019t stand it end up cleaning it out\u2014they get stuck with it a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, how do we stop this vicious cycle?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Try the simple approach:<\/p>\n