Wash your hands after office cyber sex
Now here’s a very funny story for you:
Office computer keyboards can be dirtier than lavatory seats, a report published today suggests. Office workers were urged to clean their computer equipment regularly after the survey detected bacteria on keyboards including some that could put users at risk of illness.
The consumer magazine ‘Which? Computing’, took samples from over 30 keyboards in a typical London office. In one case, a microbiologist recommended the removal of a keyboard as it had 150 times the pass limit of bacteria. The keyboard in question was found to be five times filthier than a lavatory seat that was swabbed.
The main cause of bacteria was workers eating lunch at their desks. Food deposits on the keyboard encourages the growth of bacteria. Poor personal hygiene such as failing to visit the wash hand basin after visiting the lavatory may also be a contributory factor.
A very interesting bit of news, really. I hope the people who typed out these reports read it in full before they started typing it. Otherwise, it would have been interesting to watch their faces when they came to the page where it was stated that some keyboards were five times dirtier than the office toilet.
Which would be a bit like eating in a restaurant and then, between the second and the third course, being told by the waiter that the chef has just been carried out through the back door, having only moments before succumbed to the bubonic plague.
I must admit that I find all of this highly amusing - and I hope that all those health, hygiene & fitness freaks who will read about it will fret about their office keyboards for the rest of their unnaturally obsessive lives.
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