unbelievable

[mickeye]

This is disappointing to hear.
How rude can you be not to throw out your garbage. How entitled can you get? Especially if you have kids and do this. This is what you're teaching them? That this is OK? Food service/Retail monkeys aren't your slaves. Act grown and pick up after yourself. I would feel embarrassed if someone had to pick up after me, I'm suprised so many other people don't feel the same way.

Very well put Sara. What an example for your kids is right. Especially when there are always so many guests/families standing around hoping to get a table where they can just sit down with their food and eat. As for what another poster said about someone at a fast food place (not WDW) changing a baby on the table, I can't even imagine such a thing.

 

[WINTER]

The last day we were there (Monday) we witnessed a woman and her children get up and another family came to the table waiting for them to exit so they could sit down. The woman threw some trash on her tray and proceeded to walk off (without the tray)! I should have said something . . . just soooo mad!

 

[bdoyledimou]

My DS (14) has told off his own friends for being ignorant and leaving their garbage on the table.. I am very proud of him

 

[BearcatsFan]

This happened a LOT at POP when we were there last September. I found myself picking up others trays because I just couldn't see them being left on the table.

It also bothers me a lot when people dump tray and all into the garbage can, and the poor CM is left to come and fish the trays out. Why is this so hard to comprehend - the tray goes on top, the garbage goes inside?

There was a lady who had some kind of stomach virus eating at the table in front of us last year in the POP food court. She was coughing and moaning and laying her face all over the table, all whilst clutching her stomach. She even talked to me about how sick she felt and how she was only able to keep down yogurt and mashed potatoes. After she left, I quickly deterred the people who were about to sit at the table and ran and got a CM to disinfect it before she could make someone else sick. Why wouldn't you tell someone about this?

 

[sharadoc]

In January, a family left their entire meal outside at Cosmic Rays, including leftover fries and sandwich bits. You can't imagine the orgy of birds that descended immediately, knocked the trays over spraying drinks and ketchup everywhere!

I was so completely annoyed, the poor CM who had to clean that all up while fighting off the birds. I was going to help but she thanked me and told me not to. I was waiting for the rest of the family to get off Space Mountain so I was not doing anything else!

 

[nascargirl]

As sfbank stated the BWI does have a place for people to leave their dirty. The CM had to get rid of the garbage can that has always been there. When we were there last month I saw a boy about 7 come up to a CM and ask what should he do with his dirty dishes. He had such good manners. The CM said you can leave them right on the table where the other dishes were. Not even 5 min later a large family of 5 get up from a table and leave the table they were sitting at a complete mess. They couldn't be bothered with cleaning up after themselves because they were in a hurry to get to a park.

 

[Mousemom]

And please wipe up spills with a napkin!

 

[rachel09985]

I am not giving any excuse, because I think it is wrong too, but it probabaly is a cultural thing.

When I went to China and Hong Kong the people there (at McDonald's) left their trays on the table for the workers to pick up. And this is at McDonald's! It is just the norm in foreign countries to do that. These restaurants are considered higher class than here.

And I agree if they are coming to America follow the American standards and do what other people around you are doing by throwing away your trash!

 

[bdoyledimou]

I am not giving any excuse, because I think it is wrong too, but it probabaly is a cultural thing.

When I went to China and Hong Kong the people there (at McDonald's) left their trays on the table for the workers to pick up. And this is at McDonald's! It is just the norm in foreign countries to do that. These restaurants are considered higher class than here.

And I agree if they are coming to America follow the American standards and do what other people around you are doing by throwing away your trash!

I dont think its foreigners who are doing this -- and in the millions of miles i have travelled around the world, the worst i have ever seen it is in US food courts.

 

[Phatoomch]

I have travelled the world and never come across a country where its ok to do that - however, I haven't been to China or Hong Kong where as a PP posted, they do it. I do see this often and it drives me nuts and trust me, its not just people from China & Hong Kong, its across the board.

I was in a fast food place once and a family got up to leave, the little boy, probably about 7 or 8, went to pick the tray up and clear away and his dad said "There are people that get paid to do that, no-one is gonna pay you, leave it" ... its a mentality thing, not a regional/country thing.

 

[BearcatsFan]

I have travelled the world and never come across a country where its ok to do that - however, I haven't been to China or Hong Kong where as a PP posted, they do it. I do see this often and it drives me nuts and trust me, its not just people from China & Hong Kong, its across the board.

I was in a fast food place once and a family got up to leave, the little boy, probably about 7 or 8, went to pick the tray up and clear away and his dad said "There are people that get paid to do that, no-one is gonna pay you, leave it" ... its a mentality thing, not a regional/country thing.

I heard the same thing at CHH last year.

 

[slyster]

I just can't fathom someone just leaving a tray of trash/leftovers on the table. That's laziness and rude especially when you KNOW you are supposed to discard your own tray/trash. I do wonder though....sometimes I have to look to see if I'm supposed to clear off my own table. When I see a trash can, I know it's my responsibility to dump my tray of food and place my tray in the appropriate place. BUT I do wonder if some are just following along? They see trays left on tables and think that's okay?

Oh and for the record, I do clean spills with my napkin...I'm with you on that!

 

[2Tiggies]

We became very aware of it during our 2010 trip. Not sure if we just hit a run of it that year, but I actually referred to it in my trip report that year! I remember thinking to myself how it would have driven me nuts had I taken my DD as a toddler. She was one of those toddlers who would run around the stores trying to put things in the right place!

Granted, now as a teenager in training, she is probably better at clearing away out of the house than in it .... but the reasoning in our house has always been "If you don't do it at home, you don't do it anywhere else!" Period!

 

[MickeyNicki]

We take our trash to the cans but our last stay at the POFQ the little old lady that wipes down the table insisted we leave it so she could take it and look busy, said she wanted to earn her pay (we were just about the only ones in there for lunch one day)

 

[2Tiggies]

We take our trash to the cans but our last stay at the POFQ the little old lady that wipes down the table insisted we leave it so she could take it and look busy, said she wanted to earn her pay (we were just about the only ones in there for lunch one day)

That's different to leaving it on the table though. You had every intention of clearing away after yourselves

 

[kandb]

Slobs!!!

 

[chloelovesdisney]

This is the norm in some countries, I have been the only one cleaning up after myself several times. Not everyone doing so is lazy and rude, it's just how they do things where they live.

For those that know they should be throwing out their own trash and leave it behind, shame on them.

 

[aubriee]

I was in a fast food place once and a family got up to leave, the little boy, probably about 7 or 8, went to pick the tray up and clear away and his dad said "There are people that get paid to do that, no-one is gonna pay you, leave it" ... its a mentality thing, not a regional/country thing.

For those that know they should be throwing out their own trash and leave it behind, shame on them.

I agree! My mom and I ate lunch just yesterday at Taco Bueno. It was right around noon, so they were very busy. There were several trash cans in plain open view. Every one who was getting up to leave was clearing their own tables and throwing their trash away. The two men sitting in the booth right behind us got up at the exact same time we did. We had our trays in our hands and they were just going to get up and leave theirs. I smiled and said "You forgot your trash". One of them just laughed and said "that's what the staff gets paid for" and turned and walked out. As busy as that place was, he had to see everyone else was clearing their tables and there was only one poor overworked young kid who was running around washing the cleared table tops. What made him and his friend think they were so special.

 

[pampam]

I always clear the table. Even at TS I stack my dishes so the bus person can clear it easier.

I even wipe down the sink with my used paper towel when I use a public restroom, before I toss the paper towel in the trash basket. I appreciate a clean, dry area to wash up, and I'm sure others do too.

 

[Nancyg56]

I think that this happens everywhere. I don't understand it but I do nto think it is just a Disney thing. I remember when I was at work the AC units had to be shut down for a few days and it was HOT> Our management ordered a Snow COne Machine, some ice cream and a popcorn maker. All of us manned the machines for our representatives. One guy, maybe 21 or so, dropped an entire snow cone on the floor and kept walking. I was so I asked him who he thought was going to clean that mess up. He told me the cleaning lady No......you are going to clean it and i sent him back with plenty of paper towels. Good thing he did not know I was not a manager...........just had to work like one