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This is everyday. Show me your worst rooms.

I work in a district with 3 schools. This one particular school is excessive with the trash. Every single day. All 18 classrooms in my section. It's like they purposely try to out do themselves every day.

EDIT: Yes those are cat boxes with litter. They are NO LONGER there. That picture was from a previous school year. All I know is that there was cat litter all around it one day and I asked about it and basically got no answer. Just to clean it.

u/Techtard — 6 days ago
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12 Years down the slop room drain

Just lost my head custodian job of 12 years due to upper management personal business to make it short. I worked for the local school district. I am experienced and work well. My 2 principals i have worked for in that time period have even agreed to be my references for future jobs. What would you all do in my situation? I am 35 with 2 kids and need to make around 20 an hour to survive. Thank you to anyone who cares.

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u/Alarming-Currency-80 — 5 days ago
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26m considering career switch to school custodial

Working in corporate healthcare currently- job isn’t bad, a lot of quality of life, but working in compliance specifically i feel a lot of stress and anxiety within the job, more so with a lot of constant change and with ai coming in a lot of disagreement with how insurance operates and seeing a lot of stuff i disagree with within the back end of healthcare, overall i think i want to move into something with more surface level value, better benefits and something more overall secure

I also teach Brazilian jiu jitsu at night as well, so really i stuck around with healthcare because it gives flexibility to teach and train - which a few friends of mine in custodial seem to have a lot of time off, and work good hours

Was considering applying to some school districts around me, i remember in high school all the maintenance and custodians were some of the coolest staff in the building so i often remember seeing nothing but positivity in those positions, id love to be someone who maintains a clean and professional space and is deemed reliable

I know the grass isn’t always greener, but TLDR getting sick of corporate, would love some insight

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u/Standard_Mix1325 — 6 days ago
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What is causing these? How to fix them

So I don't wax the floors I only mop them. But at two locations I've had at least one or more of these spots that I can't get out of the waxed tile.

Could it be from undiluted Peroxy after refilling a bottle? Like it dropped while on the way to put away the carton?

Edit: I've tried scrubbing at it and it always comes back in the same spot, no leak in the ceiling

(Sorry if I didn't use the flier right, wasn't sure which else to put)

u/Scary_Studio3871 — 5 days ago
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Some Teachers are great 😀

3 of my rooms today on my shift have their tables up, swept and left notes saying that sweeping and their tables are all taken care of.

Just means I have to focus on garbages and mopping in those rooms, means a lot to have teachers that get it and dont mind helping us out once in awhile! Hense why I go a little above and beyond for their rooms.

Made my evening to say the least!

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u/FroyoSure8530 — 6 days ago
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Should I cut my loses and just top scrub/strip? Or is there another way?

So last night a resident's broke their bed and I guess the bed couldn't be lift up so that the bed frame could roll; The bed was on the lower level of the nursing home i work at. So apparently some dumb ass graveyard shift CNAs decided to push the broken bed all the way up the ramp to the upper hall (which is where I took the picture), leaving deep marks in their trail including these visible ones from what I assume are rubber stains. I tried push burnishing with a red pad and then I put another red one on the automatic burnisher and went over it but to no avail. I also got a black pad and scrubbed with hot water but no dice. Is there some trade secret available or should I just start preparing to strip the wax down?

u/AlwaysTheStraightMan — 14 days ago
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NEEDOH IS MY ENEMY!

Everyday I’m finding busted up needoh slime on the floor that’s been there all day sitting and it’s impossible to get off curse you NEEDOH LOL!

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u/Mommyof4boys21 — 14 days ago
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What to do until students leave?

& teachers. I just started this job, I start at 3pm but kids aren't let out until 4pm. Boss was pretty unhelpful, he just told me to clean widows or something or sit around until they leave?? "Whatever you want to do". Today they all packed together sitting in the hallway and I was basically stuck in the janitors closet for 30 mins lol... What am I suppossed to do. First hour feels so pointless.

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u/Foreign-Apricot-3628 — 13 days ago