r/janitorial

when youre at work, been working since 3pm and it is now 9pm, every room is a disaster and requires 15 minutes to be swept, washrooms are a disaster with paper towels in the floor and toilets not flushed and paper towels all gone for dispensers.

and youre 49 years old, all by yourself in the building, and the manager walks into the daycare room when you took a moment to sit down. its 9pm, youre almost finished.

and he starts to gaslight you by saying what are you doing why are you sitting down what have you done so far? like hes pretending to be all mad at you like you did something wrong.

and then they nitpick the mirrors why arent they wiped and checking the floors if theyre mopped.

meanwhile you didnt have any breaks or any lunch.

telling you that youre bad at time management etc etc and i dont want to see you sitting down again and im going to come back and check on you.

what do you say to this

a coworker said once if youre sitting down just have a mop bucket nearby and say youre taking a break youre entitled to two breaks and a lunch.

also you can say you had to sit down youre dizzy, etc

never mind the fact i showed up and doing it all by myself and i actually am on the jobsite...