Please, no food or drink while using the desktops in the Qantas Lounge

[JohnK]

I am sitting in the Qantas Lounge in BNE (business lounge too busy and no desktops spare) and can see a sign above the desktops.

"Ladies and Gentlemen"

We are endeavouring to provide the maximum level of comfort and hygiene for all of our members.

Therefore we request that you pelase refrain from eating and drinking when using these computers.

With thanks

Wendy ........
Qantas CLub Manager

Interesting concept and most people do not pay attention it to it anyway. Anyway back to the business lounge as I have heard my name paged....

 

[trooper]

Bit of a shame that such signs are necessary IMO....

(Old grump aren't I??? :mrgreen

 

[tuppaware]

I can see why signs like that are there.
Working at a uni, I often replace keyboards full of two minute noodles and subway crumbs...I know its not the same as food in the QC but its bad manors and people are grubs!

 

[MrJetset]

I think it's a reasonable request. I can imagine how much beer in the QP (particularly BNE with the miners) has been spilt on the PCs let alone food. Personally I avoid any shared PC....

 

[kpc]

It is also a good way to prevent people "hogging" the computers:shock:

 

[Ikara]

I can see why signs like that are there.
Working at a uni, I often replace keyboards full of two minute noodles and subway crumbs...I know its not the same as food in the QC but its bad manors and people are grubs!

Please! - Manners

JB (AKA the "spelling police")

 

[anat0l]

I can see why signs like that are there.
Working at a uni, I often replace keyboards full of two minute noodles and subway crumbs...I know its not the same as food in the QC but its bad manors and people are grubs!

Being at a uni I've never seen two minute noodles all over the keyboards. Subway crumbs...I could see that, particularly as the libraries at our uni relaxed the rule about food and drink, i.e. when I first enrolled, it was bottled water only. Now it is any cold drinks in a container and cold food.

Apparently a certain other uni in the same city (in fact, only a boat ride away from us) has had the said policy in their library for a very long time. Not that it made us look very backwards........


I think drinks are OK at the desk; perhaps not food. Also, one drink at a time. I wish I could also say, "you damage it, you pay for it", but that's very hard to track. (Hard enough for the staff to enforce this new sign).

 

[Reggie]

Anyway back to the business lounge as I have heard my name paged....

Soooooooooooo was it an op up?

 

[tuppaware]

Please! - Manners

JB (AKA the "spelling police")

Maybe I was referring a bad manor house?

Being at a uni I've never seen two minute noodles all over the keyboards. Subway crumbs...I could see that, particularly as the libraries at our uni relaxed the rule about food and drink, i.e. when I first enrolled, it was bottled water only. Now it is any cold drinks in a container and cold food.

I'm lucky if they even wear shoes, I just glad Apple changed to a silver keyboard, because those white keyboards are not white now!

But you PHD'ers are a different breed ;-)

 

[straitman]

Please! - Manners

JB (AKA the "spelling police")

If you are going to be that pedantic it should be manners all in lower case.

 

[samh004]

I too can understand the logic behind the sign. Too many people can’t drink and type at the same time. I do it all the time at home so haven’t spilt anything in a while, or eve perhaps.

Food on the other hand, I don’t eat over my keyboard at home for the obvious reason, so I don’t see why it would be acceptable on a public keyboard.

 

[JohnK]

Soooooooooooo was it an op up?

It sure was Reggie. I went from 24F to 4A on a 767-336.

I don't particularly agree with the sign as I want to have a drink and catch up on AFF and emails in the few minutes I am in the lounge. I don't know why i should be disadvantaged because some people are not capable of handling such a simple task. Drink with left hand, click with right hand, drink with left hand, click with right hand....

 

[anat0l]

I don't know why i should be disadvantaged because some people are not capable of handling such a simple task.

There are several examples of good people being disadvantaged for the sake of a few bad apples.

The mere fact that we have security screening at (most) airports is because we can't trust every flying John Q Passenger that they're not going to blow up an aircraft or knife someone whilst on board.

The whole thing has grown to quite an annoyance now which is only pacified by the realisation of the true magnitude of the risks. Such is the (ir)rationalism of human beings.

 

[JohnK]

Totally agree Anat0l but it has got to the stage where we are all judged the same as the weakest link. Sure it may help in some situations but in most it is just a hindrance....

 

[samh004]

Totally agree Anat0l but it has got to the stage where we are all judged the same as the weakest link. Sure it may help in some situations but in most it is just a hindrance....

And in effect, the terrorists have won

 

[Groundfeeder]

It has been my observation that the QP kiddies are probably the root cause of this label. It's sometimes hard enough to secure a vacant PC (for printing BP's) when droves of kiddies are in HogHeaven playing online games and eating biscuits/drinking cola.

 

[Warks]

In the PER QP on Thursday morning waiting for QF574 (0545h) and as usual it was totally packed out with people in hi-viz clothing, this being peak hour to the mines. The only places left to sit were the desktops near the entrance. As a result I was forced to eat my breakfast there. When eating I am only using the mouse and reading, not doing any typing (apart from web addresses as there are no bookmarks) so I am not endangering the keyboard.
As JohnK said, what choice do you have if you're not in the Club for long and want to have a look online? No point getting your own laptop out for a short time and there's nowhere to put it in a crowded club.

As for the rules, one size fits all, the lowest common denominator is what we must aspire to.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Bit patronising. I certainly haven't seen any such signs in either the Mel or Syd F lounges.

Now is that because they think F lounge users are a better class of person less likely to make a spill? Or do they assume that it's worth replacing a keyboard in the event of an accident?

 

[Mal]

Not sure how I feel about this - I'm guilty of eating and drinking at the computers for similar reasons as have been mentioned by some, but also having a "crusty" keyboard is a pet hate of mine.

I'd like to think that I am well trained and coordinated enough to be able to manage eating/drinking and computing without spilling crumbs into the keyboard, leaving grease all over the keys/mouse or my drinks ending up all over the computer. I can't recall any problems I've caused at a Qantas Club/lounge [edited because I remember a work incident! ]. (Although I do wonder how "Miss Manners" would comment about the etiquette of eating and computing at the same time...)

In the back of my mind I have this image of Homer (from the Simpsons, not the member here ) going Nom, Nom, Nom and stuffing their face, with crumbs and food spilling all over the area. Or someone leaning over the keyboard with their slices of toast/butter/jam and making sure crumbs fall all over the keyboard. Some of the keyboards I've seen do make me think that occurs frequently.

At least the QP's don't have noodles... I was encouraged to eat a lovely bowl of noodles in soup while using a computer at a CX lounge recently. Now that's a combination that is fraught with risks!

 

[tuapekastar]

I can't recall ever being at a QP computer without a drink of some kind (be it alcoholic or otherwise)! By the same token, I don't recall ever having eaten in front of one.*

Whilst the possibility of an accident can never be discounted, I don't see any issue with having a drink (food, not so sure) next to you while at the computer.

*Now at work, I normally eat lunch (usually a bread roll or similar) at my desk whilst browsing certain flying-related websites , resulting in a weekly 'turn the keyboard upside down and bang several times on desk' routine, which results in a mix of bread crumbs, sesame seeds and poppy seeds being expelled from the recesses of the keyboard! They're quite resilient, those keyboards!