“that book was accidentally destroyed maliciously”

Someone posted a sign today at work — taped to the mirror in the bathroom. “All staff must wash hands before returning to the floor.”

Basically, signs with this message really irritate me, and I’m not entirely sure why. Is it their condescending nature? Is it just that I have issues with the employee in question?

The way I see it, everyone who uses that bathroom is well aware that the accepted social convention is that washing your hands is the step between using the toilet and leaving the room. No one is going to read the sign and say, “Oh gee, I knew I was forgetting something! Silly me!”

Though I personally wash my hands because it extends my zen break in the room of solitude, I can understand that some people might not. At my workplace, we do not serve food, nor do we work with people who are very young, very old, or very ill. And there are SO MANY gross things in the world. (SO MANY!) We touch money — super gross. We touch the floor, and plants and dirt outside — super gross also. We pat dogs that come to visit — cute, but kind of gross too.

I should note that a similar sign was posted a few years back. (Pretty sure it was the same employee. The boss never uses the staff bathroom, so it’s definitely not from him.) That sign stayed up until it was my week to clean, and then I accidentally-on-purpose destroyed it by spraying cleaner on it and threw it away. I am thinking this sign may suffer a similar unfortunate fate.

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