here I stand before you...I am fine.

The guy’s whiny list of “but it’s haaard!” excuses while clutching the enormous drink full of ice? YES.

We’ve opened it and, thank God, the world has not fallen into darkness. I was the first to put my whole head inside the sarcophagus... and here I stand before you...I am fine.

This article isn’t talking about tasks that are invisible but necessary for the business, which is what it sounds like you’re talking about (cable management is a big one here). This article is talking about tasks that are not related to the business but still need to get done such as picking up birthday cards and…

Roseanne

What gets me is that the guys know damn good and well the fridge/coffee maker/microwave is a horror show, but it just never occurs to them that part of USING a space is CLEANING IT. They just wait until the thing mutates and crawls off or somebody who isn’t them breaks down and does it.

I’m not sure what line of work you’re in, but I treat being asked to do bullshit tasks as what that are: an intrusion of my actual workload, and I ask where they’d like me to prioritize it.

Actually, I really think this is advice for men.  Stop whining and pull your weight.  Otherwise, sit down and be quiet. 

OK, there’s a lot going on (and going wrong) in what you wrote, so I’m only going to be able to address one small part of it because I just don’t have the time...

I basically had the same thing happen. I worked in a newsroom, and my schedule included a Sunday shift that was often a little slow. I noticed during one of my lunch breaks that the fridge was nasty. It was a brutally boring day, so I took 20 minutes and cleaned it out. A few weeks later it was nasty again. No…

Can I make a polite suggestion:

In response to the flood of burners and, let’s face it, men moaning about how this advice is either: 1. sexist or 2. pointless because everyone recognizes these volunteer tasks and gives credit for it, allow me to present a small sample of the ways that I, a professional woman, have been asked to volunteer to do…

My first thought was this so-real scene from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend:

I mean, that is generally the white hetero male take on being an ally. Obviously not all men (i punched myself for typing that, don’t worry), but enough that it’s a problem

Half-Indian, half-white person here. I pass for white, and there have been multiple occasions in my life that I’ve heard white people around me make jokes about Indian people by doing the “thank you, come again!” Apu voice.

Agree on all points. Not to mention the pure ballsiness of, “Oh, I know you find this caricature offensive, but I, A White, love him so!” Also:

“I agree, politically, with 99 percent of the things that Hari Kondabolu believes. We just disagree on Apu. I love the character and I would hate for him to go away.”

I KNOW!!! Making white people yellow and everyone else roughly the color they are in real life is doing nothing to break stereotypes, wtf is he on about?

“I agree politically with everything Hari Kondabolu says up to the point where it inconveniences me in any way.” -Matt Groening

“When you’re young, you don’t question. When you’re young, you’re like, ‘I gotta be tough. I gotta be, like, down to really perform, and if that means they need me to go this extra mile [I will]…’ People take advantage of that. People have always taken advantage of that.”