Cubicle Scum...

Have you ever cleaned out your cubicle and discovered a distributing amount of suspicious material? Let me clarify. I was cleaning out my cubicle, and under my phone, stuck beneath picture frames, and in between the keys in my keyboard there was gooey, crummy, sticky material with which I could not identify.

I know we all eat lunch at our desks to avoid the painful conversations of the break room. You know what I'm talking about? The awkward silences, the meaningless filler conversation, and the fake laughter about old jokes. So, some of us eat our desks. It doesn't mean we're not cool, we're simply enlightened. But, avoiding the break room banter has its downfalls. Eating at your desk produces some hazardous aftermath. It doesn't matter how clean I try to be, something always gets spilled. I clean up right away, don't get me wrong, but the mess is never fully gone. Something gets left behind, and that something is scary the buildup of cubicle scum.

Cubicle scum is naughty. Really, it is! It manages to hide for days, weeks, months, even years (depending on your cleaning habits) until discovered by a throughout clean. When I mean thorough I mean a complete overhaul, removing everything and giving it a good wipe-down.

I will touch on one last point, which happens to be the area most hit and hardest to clean by cubicle scum... the keyboard! Its as if all of a sudden you notice one day that there are crumbs and scum stuck in between every key, appearing over night! Unless you have some heavy duty air pressure, or are willing to remove each individual key, you have to deal with the the festering dirt so close to your fingers.

I am perplexed but found this interesting item that will pick up the dirt out of your keyboard by simply rolling around over your keys and applying pressure.

Any other ideas?