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Sinclair TV manager: Stop pasting boogers on bathroom walls

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For some reason, television station bathrooms are notoriously messy, despite the fact that most of its employees went to college and otherwise appear to be functioning adults.

But the situation at one television station in particular has reached a new level, one that warranted its own special memo.

On Tuesday, Mary Margaret Nelms, the vice president and general manager of Charleston, South Carolina MyNetwork TV affiliate WCIV-TV (Channel 36), asked employees to keep “a clean, sanitary environment” after learning the men’s restroom at the station was not being kept up.

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Among other issues, Nelms wrote she understood there to be boogers on the wall of the bathroom.

“I never thought I would have to write a memo like this,” the executive, who has worked in television news for nearly two decades, said in the all-staff memo. “Gross.”

The men’s room booger memo. (Image: The Desk)

WCIV, which also operates as an ABC affiliate, is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting Group.

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Correction: An earlier version of this story erroneously placed the television station in North Carolina. WCIV operates from South Carolina. 

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Matthew Keys

Matthew Keys is the award-winning founder and editor of TheDesk.net, an authoritative voice on broadcast and streaming TV, media and tech. With over ten years of experience, he's a recognized expert in broadcast, streaming, and digital media, with work featured in publications such as StreamTV Insider and Digital Content Next, and past roles at Thomson Reuters and Disney-ABC Television Group.