Every time I go into the kitchen at work I find that someone has failed to properly turn off the tap fully so that the faucet is dripping… every time!
Weren’t we taught way back in elementary school that leaving a dripping faucet is a huge waste of water?
I work in an office building where almost everyone has post-secondary education, many of whom have taken years and years worth of additional training, have passed grueling exams and have professional designations. You’d think such highly trained individuals would be capable of turning the tap to the off position. —Tap turn-er off-er
This article appears in Mar 25-31, 2010.
Some of the most intelligent people have NO common sense.
My BF does this in my house all the time…it drives me insane!
I’m guilty of this once in a while…
turn it so it stops but not so as to need a jar opener to get it back flowing again.
there’s a fine line there.
some of us use a little too much leverage and get shunned/yelled at for it…
so we opt for the other end of the spectrum.
It’s usually the ones who are overeducated that can barely tie their own shoe, let alone turn a tap off properly.
well hey… wasn’t it the over-educated that came up with velcro?
we don’t work through problems, we learn to avoid them entirely.
if you don’t have to sleep there, get the hell over the petty little annoyance.
Um, has it occured to you, OP, that maybe this has now passed the point of just needing to be turned off tightly, and actually needs to be repaired?
If that is the case, it is the Office Manager’s job to get that looked after.
Stop nagging your co-workers about things they can’t be bothered with. I presume they have deadlines, client meetings, and other important things to do that ensure your continued employment, correct?
I think the OP is a drip!
Are you paying the water bill. If not then shut the fuck up
I’m with the OP on this one; it takes no more time to turn the water completely off than it does to do a half ass job of it. Who cares if they’re not paying the bills, we all should be actively trying to not waste water… You don’t even know how lucky we are to have clean, drinkable tap water.
Actually, the OP’s company most likely is paying for their share of the water (and most other building expenses), that’s how most office buildings (or any commercial building for that matter) works.
I’ve worked in an office where a cleaning person had to be hired to come in after lunch, just to clean up the kitchen because the adults that worked there where incapable of picking up their trash and putting it in the garbage can. It’s amazing how lazy professional business people can be when it’s not their own homes.
true story.
microwaves and fridges tell that all too ugly tale…
filthy on a good day.
Canada has a huge resource of water. I don’t think a few drips are going to throw us into a water famine.
water famine … ?
I don’t think it works like that…
drought perhaps
unless of course all you drink are chewed up ice cubes… which I’m not judging, but I think that makes you weird… and electrically dependent for a water source which is never a good thing.
sebastian, you are right, Canada does have vast resources of water BUT we are only tapped into a small percentage of that locally. Having an abundance of something does not excuse wastefulness. We should all do our part to respect what we have. The OP does not identify whether it was cold or hot water dripping. If it was hot water then it causes preventable environmental damage that hurts us all.