Secret soap submitter

In the tea-room (what Yanks would call the ''breakroom''), there's a sink, and a dishrack -- but no soap. Because there's four(?) different Centres located on this floor, if any one group supplied dish soap, it would get used up by other folks. Thus, each Centre has their own little stash that they bring with them when the do the washing-up after a meeting.

Which is fine. But when you've made your daily PB & J sandwiches, and want to wash off your knife: no soap. And it's a pain to trek all the way back to my office just to get the ''official soap.''

Plus, it discourages proper hand-washing.


After -- what, eight months? -- of working here, I'd finally had enough. Grabbed one of our bars of soap from home; grabbed an extra takeaway container from recent Chinese food, and poked some drainage holes in the bottom; and donated a bar of soap and functional (though not pretty) soap dish to the communal sink.

And now I can actually wash my hands -- with soap!!!

Activism in action, I suppose.


--GG