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?
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.
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...
Yeah, well - have you ever licked the receiver on a public pay phone in Mexico during a Tequila fueled double dog dare? :greenface
chicken. ;)
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.
High alcohol (55%) formula kills a broader range of viruses and bacteria including: TB and RSV in 1 minute; HBV and HIV-1 in 2 minutes; MRSA and VRE in 5 minutes. Kills Candida Albicans and Rhinovirus.
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.
My mouse only gets cleaned after I eat cheetos.
Just don't think about the copy machine buttons.
They're going on my list. But seriously I sanitize my hands every 15 minutes anyway.
Sanitize every time you have a dirty thought is what i always say.
Sanitize every time you have a dirty thought is what i always say.
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!
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.
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.
:)
I try to keep my ears clean, and i take the phone away from my face to sneeze.
I'm not a big sterilizer
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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I dont sterilise.
I am really anal about washing my hands, the kids hands and I compulsively clean floors.
Oh...and Im super stupidly anal about cleaning after handling raw chicken....
Anything else....dont care....its all *building the immune system*.
I work as a cashier...meaning every diseased gross person you can think of wanders through my line at any point. I touch their diseased money from their grimy hands, punch the amount onto my disgusting keyboard, and make change with other filthy money, to hand back to them. Repeat.
We have ONE bottle of hand sanitizer, it's behind the service desk...and only the people who work the service desk really use it.
Anyone can be at any register at any point in the day, and two registers share one phone. It wasn't until about halfway through my first summer, that I realized our registers aren't actually grey, they're tan. So much gunk had accumulated on them that they had CHANGED COLOR...at that point I went through and methodically cleaned every register, keyboard, phone, drawer handle, cabinet, printer, etc...anything that I thought someone was going to touch, I cleaned.
I still sterilize everything when I have downtime, they tease me about it, but seriously when there's so much gunk on your keyboard that the paper towel you're using to clean it changes color and starts to fall apart, you need to do some work.
Oh yeah, raw chicken. Much scrubbing of the hands after that.
I'm just filthy.
I will even eat something I've offered to the cats to sniff, although I draw the line if they've licked it :yum:
In fact last night I allowed two strangers a sip of my strawberry beer and had no problems drinking it afterwards.
I still sterilize everything
Does your bf know about this?
He won't if you don't warn him before he feels the scalpel.
Trashcans with lids. That you have to touch to get the trash in there. WTF?
I use one paper towel to push the lid open, and then I wedge that one in the opening.
Another problem: when the trash-can-with-a-lid is too far away from the door of the bathroom to put the paper towel that I open the door with in there. Sorry, but you leave me no choice but to throw that last paper towel on the floor on the way out.
Yeah, I don't touch the doorknobs on bathrooms. Or the faucet handles. Or anything.
I use the towel I used to dry my hands to push the auto-door opener in the restrooms here at the college. Because, seriously, some people are just gross!
I would like to offer another thread title without making it another thread:
Telephone Hi Genie.
*sorry go on about your bizz*
Is there any way you could fit "flaming hot dinner" in there, Cic?
Cleaning your phone is very important if you have fresh, healing ear or facial piercings.
You can hypothetically one can get germs from anything that comes into contact with other people.
So you ether learn to live with it or be come a germaphob.
Sure, but there are some common sense approaches one should take, like always washing hands before eating.
I always wash my hands before cooking, after handling raw meat or eggs, or tuna fish, after Tae Kwon Do and after using a public bathroom. I don't care much about most bathroom seats. I usually assess (haha) the bathroom, though, before deciding whether that is an unwise choice. And if it is an unwise choice, I often do it anyway...I don't know why. I guess I feel it is not cool to have a seat right there and have to hover above it and risk peeing all over the back of my pants. So, I will usually just wipe it down, "just in case." Oh, and I only freak out about other people's food/drinks if they are notably poor about their hygiene or sick.