Scrub It
A few years ago, my mom worked as an admin for a janitorial company. I met her boss several times, and when he heard I was searching for a job, he offered me a job supervising one of his cleaning crews. Since I had no experience, he told me I would work for a few weeks as one of the crew to get a feel for it. I was told the hours were 6 p.m. to midnight and it would be a breeze!
My first few nights on the job, I went out with a crew to clean four office buildings. Apparently, the new girl always gets the worst assignment — bathrooms. I never knew it was such a nasty job to clean so many bathrooms! I calculated I had scrubbed 85 toilets a night. I also found out that since they get paid hourly, the crew wants to make the most of it — we stopped for food and cigarettes constantly, and one night we went and parked at the local jail so one girl could wave to her boyfriend.
After one week in which I couldn’t get the smell of urine out of my clothes and I never made it home before 4a.m., I finally quit. Not even a supervisor job was worth it anymore!
Hmm. I understand that you didn’t like the job, but part of me is sad to see this posted on here since so many people work as janitors. It didn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary happened at this job, you just thought it was gross (?). Meanwhile many people are doing this work – that you found so distasteful for a week – to earn a living for years.
Yah, it must have really sucked having to work for a living… 85 toilets, oh you poor baby!
btw…PC term is custodian
i believe it’s actually known as ‘a career in the custodial arts’.
It seemed to me that the OPs problem wasn’t so much with the actual work, but rather with the fact that the shifts lasted 4 hours longer than they were supposed to because the crew spent most of their time slacking off. I don’t know about anyone else, but it would sure bother me if I had to spend 4 extra hours at work every day for no reason.
@zomboid – don’t mess with the bull, young man. You’ll get the horns.