Breakroom etiquette, how would you handle this situation (details inside)?

I clean and mutter.

Is this a trick question? Take two seconds and clean it up of course.

I rather like the smell of Pineapple. To me it’s not stinky.

But it sure is sticky, so I’d just wipe it up. If it happened again, I’d leave a prominent note.

Clean it, I’m not so much of a rockstar at my job that I can’t clean up a small mess.

Of course, clean it up – why on earth wouldn’t you?

Wait… if there were a pineapple puddle appearing twice daily, then I might ignore it.

I’d clean it up and leave a bunch of post-its around with snarky comments on them about people who don;t clean up after themselves.

I’d clean it—and probably make snide remarks to anyone within earshot.

Clean it.

I would clean it but would make it my goal in life to discover the truly nefarious perpetrator of said act.

Investigate and locate the person that left the pineapple mess. Chances are, this is not his/her first opportunity to be a slob. This should not be a difficult task for to find this person.

At first, I would leave a note and stick it on top of the pineapple juice. Stating, “you made the mess, so clean it up”. I would wait to see what happens.

If no takers withing two days, I would then break down and do it yourself.

I would keep a watchful eye out for this unknown slob for future pineapple capers.

The way it is described, it is not classified as a “small mess.”

Clean it up right away. I may be a slob, but I’m not a dirty slob.

I clean it (cursing the slob who left it).

I clean it. I don’t get ‘etiquette’, I get common sense.

@John

Spoken like a true detective. Good for you.

:D

I clean it then go around smelling everyone’s breath ~

Depends where I was working. Some factories have had MUCH cleaner floors than the insides of other factories’ break-room fridges. The idea of “cleaning” some of the dirtier places is just ridiculous.

Not my mess. Not my problem.

I’m with @CWOTUS and @marinelife I would clean and mutter, under my breath, about the selfish idiot who spilled it in the first place and left it for someone else to take care of.

@lillycoyote . . . Did any of you consider that messes get left like that because folks like you are always cleaning them up?

Wait… is this going to end up being some sort of political analogy?

Oh jeez, rancid pineapple is probably one of the worst odors on the planet. I would clean it up and spare myself, and everyone else, the disgust.

I clean it up while muttering about it, and then bitch to my co-workers about the mess. And contemplate putting up a note about it, but would chicken out.

I wouldn’t clean it.

I’d clean it and then put an item on the next agenda to discuss who’s responsible for break room clean up.

@Blondesjon I’m not just going to leave it like I didn’t see it, just let the whole mess get worse, let it start dripping all over the floor.

And I really don’t think messes like that get left because other people clean them up. That may be be true about coffee cups left in the sink but not the kind of mess described here. This is a hypothetic question anyway but it asks about whether I would clean up the mess in my company break room, not an elementary school cafeteria. If someone manages to get to adulthood and hold down a job and hasn’t learned that if you spill grapefruit juice all over the table in the break room that you are supposed to clean it up, well, my refusing to clean it up myself isn’t going to change that. Anyway, I’m just that kind of person. I’m not going to change now. I put other people’s shopping carts back too, particularly if some jackass has left the cart in one of the handicapped spots. I can’t not do it. I doubt that any person who doesn’t care about leaving a cart in a handicapped spot is going to be reformed by my ignoring it.

Edit: and what @tranquilsea said. :-) That’s the most reasonable and rational approach, I think. It should be cleaned up, but addressed at some point so the idiot doesn’t do it again.

Edit redux. Then again, maybe what @JilltheTooth said. :-) Maybe the person didn’t notice and no need to make a big office stink about it.

I clean it up and then look in the fridge for pineapple juice and spit in it.
kidding, of course
maybe

I entertain the thought that the person didn’t know it spilled, that maybe an accident happened when the last person out closed the door too hard or something.

FYI, this happened to my supervisor with a slight twist, she found the pineapple juice on the shelf of a cupboard. I showed her Fluther and asked if I could ask the question here. She was good with it but when we put it here we decided to make the mess on the counter because it being inside a cupboard might make it easier to walk away from. So, does the mess being inside a cupboard make a difference?

@SuperMouse Not to me. It is quite possible that who ever spilled it didn’t see it but mentioning this at a meeting would be the most reasonable way to handle it. Just a reminder for everyone to clean up after themselves.

If it’s inside of the cupboard, I can imagine how someone could have hidden their cup of pineapple juice in there for later, and someone else came along and grabbed something else out of there and tipped it over without realizing it.

Or once inside the cupboard, the pineapple juice could have been forgotten. I forget stuff like that all the time. :o(

Inside the cupboard makes it way more likely it was an accident that no one saw.