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Food particularly can be an issue if people do not clean up after themselves. I am in India and we have a team that cleans up after work because we can have foo

Food particularly can be an issue if people do not clean up after themselves. I am in India and we have a team that cleans up after work because we can have food at our desks and any food left out attracts cockroaches and mice/rats. If they do not have a team like that things go downhill fast.

kamaal 8y ago
>>I am in India and we have a team that cleans up after work because we can have food at our desks and any food left out attracts cockroaches and mice/rats. :) Where do you work in India? If your office infrastructure is so broken that you could have mice infestation, you definitely have far bigger problems than eating at your desk. In fact at this point in time, I'd like to think you have a mice infestation already. At almost any major tech park that I've worked in Bangalore, I can't recall even single instance of even seeing a fly or mosquito in office. Let alone see a rat.
- Blaiz0r 8y ago
  Well you wouldn't enjoy working in London then!
  - kamaal 8y ago
    That's interesting to hear. I'd love to see how many offices in London have mice infestations to a point employees could notice it. I was of the opinion that the western world took hygiene quite seriously.
    - gaius 8y ago
      In London on average you are never more than 10ft from a rat, or so they say. For everyone 100ft from the nearest rat there is someone 1ft away from 10 rats.
    - baud147258 8y ago
      Paris has also a rather big rat problem, even if they are usually hidding in the sewers/subways, but one can easily see them at dusk going through the trash. Also we had a few rats in our (19 century) flat, according to a person living above us.
    - stevesimmons 8y ago
      Oh London offices do have mice problems. I work at Canary Wharf and last year sat on a trading floor infested with mice. The mice would come out in the evenings. You'd know because first you'd hear one of the salespeople scream. Then the more macho traders would rush around banging on desks, trying to flush out the by now petrified mouse... The trading floors also had small cafes ('trader delis'). One day I found a dead mouse on the counter next to the cafe's credit card machine. I took a photo as I knew noone back on the trading floor would believe me. At that point, the cafe was closed for the day and thoroughly cleaned. The cleaners also started removing all food from people's desks. The best solution imo would have been cats...
  - shrikant 8y ago
    Depends where, I suppose. I've worked (and still am!) in London in loads of different sizes and types of offices, and have yet to see a single pest (mouse, cockroach, mosquito, etc.)

kamaal 8y ago

>>I am in India and we have a team that cleans up after work because we can have food at our desks and any food left out attracts cockroaches and mice/rats. :) Where do you work in India? If your office infrastructure is so broken that you could have mice infestation, you definitely have far bigger problems than eating at your desk. In fact at this point in time, I'd like to think you have a mice infestation already. At almost any major tech park that I've worked in Bangalore, I can't recall even single instance of even seeing a fly or mosquito in office. Let alone see a rat.

Blaiz0r 8y ago
Well you wouldn't enjoy working in London then!
- kamaal 8y ago
  That's interesting to hear. I'd love to see how many offices in London have mice infestations to a point employees could notice it. I was of the opinion that the western world took hygiene quite seriously.
  - gaius 8y ago
    In London on average you are never more than 10ft from a rat, or so they say. For everyone 100ft from the nearest rat there is someone 1ft away from 10 rats.
  - baud147258 8y ago
    Paris has also a rather big rat problem, even if they are usually hidding in the sewers/subways, but one can easily see them at dusk going through the trash. Also we had a few rats in our (19 century) flat, according to a person living above us.
  - stevesimmons 8y ago
    Oh London offices do have mice problems. I work at Canary Wharf and last year sat on a trading floor infested with mice. The mice would come out in the evenings. You'd know because first you'd hear one of the salespeople scream. Then the more macho traders would rush around banging on desks, trying to flush out the by now petrified mouse... The trading floors also had small cafes ('trader delis'). One day I found a dead mouse on the counter next to the cafe's credit card machine. I took a photo as I knew noone back on the trading floor would believe me. At that point, the cafe was closed for the day and thoroughly cleaned. The cleaners also started removing all food from people's desks. The best solution imo would have been cats...
- shrikant 8y ago
  Depends where, I suppose. I've worked (and still am!) in London in loads of different sizes and types of offices, and have yet to see a single pest (mouse, cockroach, mosquito, etc.)