Kitchen Nazi

There's an attorney here at work who by her own volition have appointed herself the "Kitchen Nazi".  Despite not EVER eating in the lunchroom, she insist that the thermostat must be on -2 or -1. Once upon a time, when we had some really awful vending machines and keeping the room cool was necessary as the  warm temperature would melt the candies in the machine.  We have since gone with another vending company and the machines we have now are actually temperature controlled.  But never mind all that, we are to freeze while we eat our lunches and the Kitchen Nazi would lecture us if we turn the setting to zero or off.  We were so cold one day I turned it to +1 ... Oi! She wouldn't shut up about it for days! Another thing she is very passionate about are the number of plastic cups placed on top of the ice machine. She prefers that no more than half a dozen be placed on the tray next to the ice scooper.  Once upon a time, she had even asked me to run an article (repeated about three times, if I remember correctly) in the firm newsletter stressing this preference and stating that the firm loses "hundreds of dollars each year in cups that fall behind the ice machine." It was the biggest joke! Do you know how many cups it would take to add up to "hundreds of dollars" worth? Being the Paper Product Coordinator at church, I have a good idea on how to answer this.  A bag of 240 plastic cups from Costco cost about $13 so it would take about 16 bags (3,840 cups) to get $208 worth to make that statement true. That's an awful lot of cups and I know for a fact that they don't clean out the fallen cups more than once year around this place and they have not found 16 full bags of fallen cups behind the machine. So ... WHATEVER! Earlier this week, a metal shelf was installed on top of the ice machine to cover the gap between it and the wall.  My guess is that it is a way to prevent loss of more cups and thus saving the firm "hundreds of dollars" each year.  Today another attorney (who shall remain nameless) decided that he would put three tall stacks of plastic cups on the ice machine to exaggerate this unspoken rule the Kitchen Nazi had imposed and really just out of spite for her.  Not an hour later, the extra cups were put away in the cupboards. When he saw that they were put away, he decided to put two smaller stack on top of  the ice machine, just to see if this was a bit more acceptable. Ha ha ha ... shouldn't the Kitchen Nazi be more concerned about doing some billable work if money is an issue? Talk about a CONTROL FREAK!