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View Poll Results: What's your positoin on telephone cooties? | |||
Worrying about germs on your telephone receiver is irrationally compulsive. |
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14 | 60.87% |
You don't strilize yours? Wow! You're lucky you're not dead yet. |
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9 | 39.13% |
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Your Bartender
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Philly Burbs, PA
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Telephone hygiene
I got a request today that put me in mind of the Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Someone is moving to a different office. She asked about her phone and computer. I said, just plug your computer in in the new place. No need to move the phone--they're all the same. We'll reprogram your extension for you. So.. she asked how to clean off the phone. "Sorry?" "Clean it.. you know, because somebody else has been using it & putting it up to their ear." It's an issue I haven't heard raised before. What do you think? EDIT: dammit. Can I edit the poll? |
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Years ago I moved into my new office and had an issue with the phone. The previous occupant had chronic halitosis and the phone just stunk to high heaven. It was hard asking for a new phone considering that my boss was the previous occupant.
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twatfaced two legged bumhole
Join Date: Jun 2004
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I have only ever wiped a work phone down when I knew someone was sick used it.
I even sit on the seats in the john without putting paper down first!!! I'm so reckless...
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Yeah, well - have you ever licked the receiver on a public pay phone in Mexico during a Tequila fueled double dog dare?
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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I clean my phone, my keyboards and mice (top and bottom, after spraying out particulate matter with canned air), all surfaces and buttons on PCs and monitors, the surface of my desk, the drawer pulleys, and the light switch, with PDI Super-Sani cloths.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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We have these first aid kits in the pantries here. After I've been sick, I go get one of those alcohol wipes for cuts, and I wipe my phone. I also use them on my keyboard and mouse.
Just don't think about the copy machine buttons. They are never washed, and every jackass touches them. |
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twatfaced two legged bumhole
Join Date: Jun 2004
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My mouse only gets cleaned after I eat cheetos.
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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They're going on my list. But seriously I sanitize my hands every 15 minutes anyway.
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Sanitize every time you have a dirty thought is what i always say.
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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I always wash my pecker real good in the shower...but...according to what you've prescribed I would be stuck in the shower all day!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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somewhere in between.
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Savannah, Georgia
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I hot bunk a call room with 3 other people. I always sanatize the place, esp if someone has been sick. Contact with all the stuff in the room is just to intimate and I cannot afford to miss work. We do 24 and 48 hour shifts so you really are stuck there most of the time. Door handles, toilets seats handles, bathroom sinks, key board, microwave, and esp the phones.
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Looking forward to open mic night.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: New Mexico
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Yeppers....I always clean when I move into the new place. Especially the keyboard, phone, and mouse. They are usually pretty filthy. I usually switch out the mouse for my own mouse. Of course, I don't have to ask how to clean something...I just do it.
People usually stare at me when they see me do it. (swab everything down with alcohol)And I stare back. I think it's common sense to clean things you use, and other people use with their hands and mouths, for 7-10 hours a day.....I'm not even a germ freak. ![]()
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I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
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I try to keep my ears clean, and i take the phone away from my face to sneeze.
I'm not a big sterilizer
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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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I sterilize nothing. Actually I don't clean anything in an unsterile fashion either. But then I don't share much either, so it's mostly me wallowing in my own filth and germs
![]() But I do put paper on the toilet seat in a public bog if it's absolutely necessary to sit, I use paper or a foot to flush and wash my hands thoroughly. And I will not eat food my children have already bitten into. Or share drinks with them. Icky. Oh and I put a towel between my head and the bench at the gym (mostly because I may leave a purple stain there if i don't, but admittedly cooti-avoidance is also a factor), but I only "clean" the equipment after I use it because it's the rules. ![]()
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