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Please Clean the Dry Erase Board

Dry Erase Nuclear Explosion
The majority of people that work in corporate America must have had maids or cleaners growing up. 

I don't know how many meeting rooms, conference rooms, and hotel spaces that I've been in that looked like the previous tenant was planning to come back, only to have been deserted for days.

White boards that have not been erased in months because somebody was brilliant enough to write "DO NOT ERASE," have got to be one of my biggest pet peeves. You know there is a problem when dry erase marinates so long that it becomes permanent marker.

Other examples of Pigpen-ish behavior: 

  • Coffee cups and paper towels left on tables. 
  • Grimy tables with pencil and pen marks on them.
  • Tables and chairs in disarray or not put back like they were found. 

Somewhere on the interweb there has to be a dissertation on how unclean workplaces are directly correlated with an undisciplined organization. 

Even in my child's pre-K class, it's unacceptable to leave the classroom a mess. So why do companies, much less Fortune 500 companies allow it? 

Either we have become lazy, we're just plain dirty, or the work environment doesn't apply standards that are consistent with keeping the environment workable for others. 

Today, start by cleaning the dry erase board after you use it. Take a picture. Store it in Evernote. 

It will be appreciated much more than you know. 
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