On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:36:44 +0100, john west wrote:

Since there is little of a management hierarchy to *order* people to do
a weeks cleaning and maintenance.

Without some form of agreed procedures it ain't going to happen. You
need to avoid making it a chor as well, having to do a whole week
and/or a lot of things turns it into a chore and it won't happen. Try
to split tasks so doing the crockery/cutlry has two people (so thay
can chat, makes the time go quicker), one with hands in sink, one
with T towel drying and putting away. Someone else collects the
crockery/cutlry, someone else generally tidies, etc.

How might things be organised to perhaps *shame* some dodgers into doing
a turn sometimes.

If you have one of the "irascable oldies" who tells it like it is
*and* does their turn, so it can't be turned back on them. They could
say in a loud voice, when one of the known shirkers is due to do
something "John, looks like your turn to do the ... today", so
everyone knows who should be doing that task...

But without general agreement on tasks and frequency (which depends
on how many people are involved and how often the meetings occur)
nothing will change. There also needs to be a "public record" of who
did what. So "John" can't shirk by simply not turning up or "have
another comitment" when it's his turn to do something.

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Cheers
Dave.