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This one made me so angry I couldn't even write it up last night. I will do my best to keep language at a minimum.
So yesterday it turned out that some genius had had a brilliant idea with one of our display stands featuring chocolate-covered snacks. The whole thing is shaped like a large cardboard bucket with the colours and the logo of the product on it, wedged into a cardboard square that keeps it upright.
This Einstein of a man or woman (we never actually saw the person in question) had grabbed one of the iced coffees, the kind that comes in small 250 ml cartons, opened it just a nudge, and then set it upside down in the stand. So the iced coffee poured inbetween the bags, soaked into the cardboard and eventually made its way down to the floor where it made a large puddle.
I have no idea if this was done because the person was evil, or just completely thoughtless. Maybe the iced coffee was sipped first, found to not be to the idiot's liking, and dropped top-first into the stand. Or it was done just to be a bastard.
Luckily it was quiet at this time, so I got help from a coworker to clean up the mess. We added a bit of chlorine to the bucket of water to help scour away the coffee, and that's when I found out that chlorine mixed with iced coffee creates one of the worst and most pungent odours I've ever encountered.
Then after the floor was scrubbed we needed to wash off all the bags in the stand. All in all it took us about 30 mins. If we hadn't been two, it might have taken 45-60 minutes.
Whoever you are who did this, thanks a lot. I really can not imagine what must be going through your warped little mind.
As a bonus, in my anger I forgot I shouldn't lift heavy things because of my back, so picking up that whole stand and moving it out of the way for cleaning purposes is probably the reason I needed a dose of painkillers this morning. That's partly my own fault though.
*sigh*
~Wulf
So yesterday it turned out that some genius had had a brilliant idea with one of our display stands featuring chocolate-covered snacks. The whole thing is shaped like a large cardboard bucket with the colours and the logo of the product on it, wedged into a cardboard square that keeps it upright.
This Einstein of a man or woman (we never actually saw the person in question) had grabbed one of the iced coffees, the kind that comes in small 250 ml cartons, opened it just a nudge, and then set it upside down in the stand. So the iced coffee poured inbetween the bags, soaked into the cardboard and eventually made its way down to the floor where it made a large puddle.
I have no idea if this was done because the person was evil, or just completely thoughtless. Maybe the iced coffee was sipped first, found to not be to the idiot's liking, and dropped top-first into the stand. Or it was done just to be a bastard.
Luckily it was quiet at this time, so I got help from a coworker to clean up the mess. We added a bit of chlorine to the bucket of water to help scour away the coffee, and that's when I found out that chlorine mixed with iced coffee creates one of the worst and most pungent odours I've ever encountered.
Then after the floor was scrubbed we needed to wash off all the bags in the stand. All in all it took us about 30 mins. If we hadn't been two, it might have taken 45-60 minutes.
Whoever you are who did this, thanks a lot. I really can not imagine what must be going through your warped little mind.
As a bonus, in my anger I forgot I shouldn't lift heavy things because of my back, so picking up that whole stand and moving it out of the way for cleaning purposes is probably the reason I needed a dose of painkillers this morning. That's partly my own fault though.
*sigh*
~Wulf
What a doof. I'm sorry you had to clean up someone's thoughtless, nasty mess!
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