Cleaners
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:41 am
The heading should really be 'cleaners'. At work.
There are two breeds of Work Cleaners.
There are the Hitler Units, all with short, permed hair (School Dinner Lady style beards are optional), matching smocks, trolleys designed to clean up a continent after a nuclear war, and a very focused, military method of GETTING ZE VORK DONE TOTT!!!!
And there are the lazy-assed retired slobs who come in with their big podgy hands and do pretty much bugger-all.
Where I work we have this latter breed. Sometimes, if you leave a cup on your desk, you will find it washed and back in the cupboard in the morning. Sometimes it will still be there.
There is no method or pattern to this. The rest of your desk will or won't be 'cleaned' regardless of whether the cup is there or not.
They must be under instructions not to move anything on the desks, and even if you leave a post-it note they will not clean within a foot of it. Or under your keyboard. Or around your phone.
This morning, I could see quite clearly a semi-circle on my desk with cloth-wiped markings.
I wasn't fooled into assuming this was the one 'clean' patch on my desk. On closer inspection, this 'clean' patch looked more like it had been made by some greasy Italian with an afro wiping their head across the desk. Or possibly by someone dropping their pants and using their ass-crack hair as a cloth.
Before touching it, I wiped over the wiped spot with a clean tissue.
It turned it black.
I don't even want to think about what my elbows are resting in as I type this.
There are two breeds of Work Cleaners.
There are the Hitler Units, all with short, permed hair (School Dinner Lady style beards are optional), matching smocks, trolleys designed to clean up a continent after a nuclear war, and a very focused, military method of GETTING ZE VORK DONE TOTT!!!!
And there are the lazy-assed retired slobs who come in with their big podgy hands and do pretty much bugger-all.
Where I work we have this latter breed. Sometimes, if you leave a cup on your desk, you will find it washed and back in the cupboard in the morning. Sometimes it will still be there.
There is no method or pattern to this. The rest of your desk will or won't be 'cleaned' regardless of whether the cup is there or not.
They must be under instructions not to move anything on the desks, and even if you leave a post-it note they will not clean within a foot of it. Or under your keyboard. Or around your phone.
This morning, I could see quite clearly a semi-circle on my desk with cloth-wiped markings.
I wasn't fooled into assuming this was the one 'clean' patch on my desk. On closer inspection, this 'clean' patch looked more like it had been made by some greasy Italian with an afro wiping their head across the desk. Or possibly by someone dropping their pants and using their ass-crack hair as a cloth.
Before touching it, I wiped over the wiped spot with a clean tissue.
It turned it black.
I don't even want to think about what my elbows are resting in as I type this.