r/Custodians

I hate all of it, but especially working so close with other people. To make this worse my supervisor decided to combine elementary schools since they’re down custodians so we have 7/8 cleaners per room as opposed to the 3 I’m used to

The new girl thinks she can tell everyone what to do, makes comments when somebody is taking a break (but takes 45 minute smokes breaks,) one girl stinks, and one person isnt physically fit for the job. The new girl pissed me off when she i was talking to another saying “or we all still working? I hear a whole lot of talking.” This is your first summer, shut up lol.

It’s hot, I’m sore. I just want to go back to my school and focus on it, not another school. It was such a dumb idea to combine schools.

And my supervisor is trying to get us to do stuff as a group, we’re not an office. Why does the workplace in the 21st Century try and force companionship? Leave me alone, I want to go home. I’m a loner that’s why I took this job.

I’ve asked this a couple years ago but it’s always fun to read stories lol. I’ve been caught talking to myself a few times. Also tipped mop bucket completely over in the damn hallway in front of a bunch of people 😆🤦‍♀️🫣😳

I can give 2 short stories first, we had a badger come in for a self paced build tour thanks to a teacher leaving a door open. It took over 6 hours to track down and remove from the building with animal control because of course it was small enough it didn’t trigger the motion detection on the security cameras.

Number 2 was much more recent. We were just getting the day started when my phone goes off. My neighbor was calling me to inform me that they had brought my dog inside since there was a black bear in my front yard. Ok that’s a new one but I don’t expect it to come to my work 1/4 mile away. Well about 10 minutes later we are told that we need to make certain that the gates are locked as this bear is now sitting in front of the bus lane at the middle school across the street from us. Then we start getting videos from the kids at the middle school who were arriving in busses and are now just sitting in the road watching this bear and waiting for the sheriff’s office to arrive with a borrowed loader so when they tranq this bear they can lift it into a trailer so it can be relocated because of course animal control is only equipped for up to large dogs here locally so they have to somehow move a monster black bear with just what can be found locally or wait 3 hours for the nearest proper equipment. We ended up delayed start by 4 hours that day

Union vs. Non Union

I'm considered non Union part time Permanent Sub Custodian for a school.

Only person that represents me is the Supervisor over Maintenance/Custodial. And i think he hates me. I also think the supervisor is buddy buddy with this bad Custodian that gets away with everything.

So I'm not represented by the Union. But there's this Union Custodian that gets away with everything. Ive proven he does bad things and doesn't do his job. Even video and photo evidence.

Any advice ?

Yay.

Gotta celebrate the small wins I suppose. 🤷🏻‍♂️

They have this cleaner thing that I wanted to use for moping, but not sure how to get it out. Opened I see that it needs to be connected to the tubing thing.

When I worked in an office I never saw the custodian. They worked nights. Now I am a custodian on afternoon shift. For my work schedule I can grab trashes first but everyone is still in their offices.

I prefer to wait until everyone is gone. Would they rather I not go in their offices at night, while they are not there? I can do either and this is not a pressing issue. Just wondering if there is a "common practice".

I vacuum everyday yet a summer school teacher asked me to do it. I've had it happen in other situations too

Hope you guys are spending it wisely. I'm at a school that has summer day camp so I'm still on f'n seconds so mine just started now. I work with a terrible human being and I'm glad to be away from her for 3 days.