I do networks, hardware, software, design, all kinds of stuff for my job, cleaning keyboards is not one of them. No one else here wants to take responsibility for cleaning them either, and I don't blame them, so we kind of just leave it up to the new guys coming in to clean it if they feel like it needs it. Cleaning supplies are available.
Today I was setting up someones computer and the keyboard they had was absolutely filthy. Not just the ugly dirt smudges around the keys that must keyboards get if you don't clean them, but food stuck to it, coffee stains, the keys were black with grease, you name it. Quite possibly the second dirtiest keyboard I've ever seen. (The first you don't really want to know about). Well, I know something some people who don't. You can wash a keyboard in a dish washer and it won't hurt it. Not only that, we just happen to have a dishwasher here along with a fridge and sink. Like I said, I normally refuse to clean up after other people, but in this case I'll make an exception, I'm embarrassed to leave this keyboard here for a new user, and I don't really want to tocuh it to install software, so I stick it in the dishwasher, put some soap in, and start it up. Plenty of dirty dishes in there allready, surprised no one else has started it yet. (Don't get ahead of me, I know what your thinking, but your wrong).
Time passes
Stephanie, our admin, comes up to me and says "did you put those keyboards in the dishwasher?"
"Yah"
"Come with me" she says smiling
I get to the employee area and the first thing I see is the "Caution: Wet Floor" sign. Just behind it, I see foam. About 2 inches deep worth covering the entire floor of the kitchen area. She wades slowly across the floor and picks up the Palmolive bottle sitting by the sink. "Is this the soap you used?"
So I learned today that you can't use that type of soap in a dish washer without covering the floor in foam.