I've always managed to be first name basis coworkery with our janitorial staff at the store I work at. Noone else bothers, they don't precisely work for us, so much as their company who we pay, and I guess for the other staff I work with they just don't feel that they *are* coworkers, or something... I dunno. They're nice people. They work hard. Only an hour or so of work at our store, but it's every single day. And then they go onto the next job they have.
If I'm human to them, they're human to me. Fuck the hand that rocks the cradle, the hand that takes out the garbage rules the world. Be nice to the cleaning lady, she can make your life suck, hard.
All of that aside, it's been hardest with the newest cleaning lady. She's slightly borderline developmentally dysfunctional, and is *way* too enthusiastic. It's a lot to deal with at the buttcrack of dawn. She means well, just answering the exact same questions 5 times in a row every single day sorta gets to you. She's nice though.
I do miss our old cleaning staff a lot... Stephanie and Josiah. Stephanie retired to New orleans (yay! good for her) and Josiah went back to bartending because the money was too good. I missed them and talking to them in the morning, and our bathroom smelled horrible for nearly a year until we got staff that knew how/wanted to clean it properly.
Once again, I strike with meaningless blather. Sorry.
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Date: 2004-10-01 11:15 pm (UTC)I dunno. They're nice people. They work hard. Only an hour or so of work at our store, but it's every single day. And then they go onto the next job they have.
If I'm human to them, they're human to me. Fuck the hand that rocks the cradle, the hand that takes out the garbage rules the world. Be nice to the cleaning lady, she can make your life suck, hard.
All of that aside, it's been hardest with the newest cleaning lady. She's slightly borderline developmentally dysfunctional, and is *way* too enthusiastic. It's a lot to deal with at the buttcrack of dawn. She means well, just answering the exact same questions 5 times in a row every single day sorta gets to you. She's nice though.
I do miss our old cleaning staff a lot... Stephanie and Josiah. Stephanie retired to New orleans (yay! good for her) and Josiah went back to bartending because the money was too good. I missed them and talking to them in the morning, and our bathroom smelled horrible for nearly a year until we got staff that knew how/wanted to clean it properly.
Once again, I strike with meaningless blather. Sorry.