They're your dishes too

Recently I underwent surgery and because of that I was put on work restriction for 6 weeks. At the zoo this meant I couldn't work in my usual area, Children's Zoo, because the work required a lot of heavy lifting, so during my restriction I was trained in and worked the Diet Prep area. Much less heavy lifting here. It was a new experience and I was happy to be trained in another area of the Zoo. Aside from that, the other thing I took with me from working in the kitchen is the fact that the other Keepers don't help out enough with the dishes.

In the kitchen is where just about everyone washes their diet dishes. The exception is Children's Zoo, being so far away from the kitchen and having their own sink in the Main Barn, they handle their own dishes and only bring up clean ones. It frustrated me that even though all the other areas put dishes into the sink and bleach bin they rarely continued the process of rinsing them after the disinfection time or put away any rinsed dishes. I guess in theory it's the job of the kitchen person but I don't think that's fair. They all spend time in the kitchen so why is it so hard for them to help the process along? They will shove, cram and pile dishes into the bleach bin to the point where some aren't even touching the bleach water and just walk away. A dish doesn't get disinfected if it's not in the bleach water. How they can justify that action is beyond me.

Like the other areas in the zoo, the kitchen has a lot of stuff going on so it was hard to keep up with everyone's dishes and still complete all the kitchen tasks. It frustrated me that no one else seemed to care one bit about the back log of dishes. It really annoyed me, still annoys me hence this post. I mean they're your dishes too why can't you help out the process? We all know where the dishes go so why not put a few of the dry dishes away to at least make room for a few to be rinsed from the bleach water and set to dry? It's not a hard process, it just takes a few moments to help out a little. Lazy inconsiderate mother effers.

I'm going to try and be the change I want to see here and help out with dishes even though I'm back in CZ now where I'm not part of this problem, but maybe being part of the solution may help others change their ways. Yeah.....it's a nice theory but what I think will happen is my helping out will just give them another excuse to not help. "Oh don't worry she'll do it" thinking. Like with a lot of things here they miss the true point and only see a way for them to do less. I find it annoying and sad that a group of "adults" would act this way and still claim that we're a team. Sure we're a team when you have a project that you need help with, we all need to jump when you say so, but for everyday stuff like dishes it's all a lot of NMP mentality. *NMP=not my problem* Just makes me shake my head in disbelief. So sad.