In my Disneyland days, I worked the midnight custodial shift. (Dept. 336: We washup the ground you walk on!) I worked the Egg House detail and the Main Gate detail. Both had bathrooms. Lots and lots of bathrooms.
The Disney way to clean a restroom was top-to-bottom. Clean things above you first (mirrors, fans, etc.), then your waist (trash, sinks, counters, etc.) then below your waist (toilets and floors). By the time you finished cleaning with that method, the place was wonderfully clean in a pretty short time.
When I clean the bathrooms at church, I use the same method, and always get complimented.
So if you have to clean the restroom, do it the Disney way. (And whistle while you work!) 😉
Pete… as I recall, if you worked custodial… you made very good Dizneyland money… I worked retail… which wasn’t bad and above the average wage…
Just for the record… Dizneyland is Union… therefore, we got paid decent-like for wearing the polyester (and if you are a girl, panty hose). Just for the record, I hate panty hose.
I’m 100% with Randie on that one… That’s why our shop’s bathroom is off limit to our clients, except very old clients, very young one or people with health problem.
That doesn’t prevent the rude one to just go to the bathroom without asking, although there is written EMPLOYEE USE ONLY DO NOT ENTER on the door.
But it always fun to warn our manager that a client is using the bathroom without authorization and watching her go Hulk on them.
Val… Ha! In France, you don’t have the policy “The customer is always right…” This is my understanding. If a manager person in this country was to “Go Hulk” on a customer, there would be some serious trouble… another reason I like France.
Oh yeah we do have the ‘customer is always right’, but we also have an awesome manager (our co manager actually, but the manager only come in the shop once or twice a month) and she don’t let the Clients From Hell get away with their tantrum. Last week, a client just barged into our restroom without knocking while I was eating with a colleague. There was much “what-the-helling” from our side and polite but firm “GTHO sir please, were you raised by wolves?”
I’ve never been unfortunate enough to have to clean washrooms other than my own, which is a small saving grace of my life. My Pocket Philosopher worked a burger king in Ottawa though, and he has some stories. He once had his manager agree to sell him his SOUL if he cleaned the bathroom because my PP hasn’t got a sense of smell.
I never have asked for details on that. I just started wondering what’s wrong with humanity. Is it that hard to be courteous to the working man and not be a complete pig? Then again I just finished bodyguarding a university kid and I’m starting to wonder if something is just wrong in peoples’ heads. (I know there is in mine, but I also know what it is at least!)
When I was 18, the only job I could get was working as a clerk in a (very sleazy) adult bookstore. The type that was literally open 24/7 with the entrance at the back so people didn’t have to be worried about other’s seeing them enter or leave.
Part of my duties as a clerk was janitorial, at the end of my shift I had to clean and mop both the video booths (don’t ask why the floors were so sticky) and the bathroom. I will spare you the horror story of the things I had to clean in the bathroom.
Brig,
Back in the early 80s, when I worked for the Mouse, Custodial paid decent. But graveyard custodial paid above that AND you could get full time. (“A” status), which included benefits. And you got your Main Gate Pass after only six months, counting seasonal work.
I pulled down an awesome $5.125/hr. Yeah, that’s a half-cent at the end. We were union, but it was a real Mickey Mouse outfit. 😉
Val… sounds like your store manager is alright. And sometimes I DO wonder if some people are raised by wolves. Really messy, untidy and rude wolves.
Grump… UpperDecker? UGH! I don’t wanna think about that one!Blecht!
Jen/Leo/Gramy P… OH MY DEAR LO…. You guys have worked in some places that I can only imagine must have been a challenge to work in. You earned some points somewhere, people. Honestly… I’m fortunate that the public restroom at the art store I worked in was never “polluted” so badly on MY shifts. I guess I was most fortunate.. that I have no horror stories to share. Still… cleaning up after other people’s “misses” was about the worst I got…
I had to clean poo off the ceiling of a Burger King once.
How.
Does that.
Even.
Happen.
In my Disneyland days, I worked the midnight custodial shift. (Dept. 336: We washup the ground you walk on!) I worked the Egg House detail and the Main Gate detail. Both had bathrooms. Lots and lots of bathrooms.
The Disney way to clean a restroom was top-to-bottom. Clean things above you first (mirrors, fans, etc.), then your waist (trash, sinks, counters, etc.) then below your waist (toilets and floors). By the time you finished cleaning with that method, the place was wonderfully clean in a pretty short time.
When I clean the bathrooms at church, I use the same method, and always get complimented.
So if you have to clean the restroom, do it the Disney way. (And whistle while you work!) 😉
It’s the cruel punishment that makes minimum wage that more minimum. It’s the worst job there is.
Small Dave:
I.
DON’T.
EVEN.
Want.
To.
Know!
Pete… as I recall, if you worked custodial… you made very good Dizneyland money… I worked retail… which wasn’t bad and above the average wage…
Just for the record… Dizneyland is Union… therefore, we got paid decent-like for wearing the polyester (and if you are a girl, panty hose). Just for the record, I hate panty hose.
Jack… Nicely put. See Small Dave’s comment above.
I’m 100% with Randie on that one… That’s why our shop’s bathroom is off limit to our clients, except very old clients, very young one or people with health problem.
That doesn’t prevent the rude one to just go to the bathroom without asking, although there is written EMPLOYEE USE ONLY DO NOT ENTER on the door.
But it always fun to warn our manager that a client is using the bathroom without authorization and watching her go Hulk on them.
Val… Ha! In France, you don’t have the policy “The customer is always right…” This is my understanding. If a manager person in this country was to “Go Hulk” on a customer, there would be some serious trouble… another reason I like France.
Oh yeah we do have the ‘customer is always right’, but we also have an awesome manager (our co manager actually, but the manager only come in the shop once or twice a month) and she don’t let the Clients From Hell get away with their tantrum. Last week, a client just barged into our restroom without knocking while I was eating with a colleague. There was much “what-the-helling” from our side and polite but firm “GTHO sir please, were you raised by wolves?”
Aaaahhhh…. I spent a year cleaning a homeless shelter, back when I was in school…. (I was training for social services – this counted toward credit.)
The term ‘upper decker’ was a discovery that I really had no wish to learn.
The Auld Grump
I’ve never been unfortunate enough to have to clean washrooms other than my own, which is a small saving grace of my life. My Pocket Philosopher worked a burger king in Ottawa though, and he has some stories. He once had his manager agree to sell him his SOUL if he cleaned the bathroom because my PP hasn’t got a sense of smell.
I never have asked for details on that. I just started wondering what’s wrong with humanity. Is it that hard to be courteous to the working man and not be a complete pig? Then again I just finished bodyguarding a university kid and I’m starting to wonder if something is just wrong in peoples’ heads. (I know there is in mine, but I also know what it is at least!)
I was the Maintenance Man at a Shelter for Abused Women for almost ten years, I have horror stories that I will NEVER tell!
(How can you live to be old enough to be a Mother and NOT know how a Plunger works?)
When I was 18, the only job I could get was working as a clerk in a (very sleazy) adult bookstore. The type that was literally open 24/7 with the entrance at the back so people didn’t have to be worried about other’s seeing them enter or leave.
Part of my duties as a clerk was janitorial, at the end of my shift I had to clean and mop both the video booths (don’t ask why the floors were so sticky) and the bathroom. I will spare you the horror story of the things I had to clean in the bathroom.
Brig,
Back in the early 80s, when I worked for the Mouse, Custodial paid decent. But graveyard custodial paid above that AND you could get full time. (“A” status), which included benefits. And you got your Main Gate Pass after only six months, counting seasonal work.
I pulled down an awesome $5.125/hr. Yeah, that’s a half-cent at the end. We were union, but it was a real Mickey Mouse outfit. 😉
Val… sounds like your store manager is alright. And sometimes I DO wonder if some people are raised by wolves. Really messy, untidy and rude wolves.
Grump… UpperDecker? UGH! I don’t wanna think about that one!Blecht!
Jen/Leo/Gramy P… OH MY DEAR LO…. You guys have worked in some places that I can only imagine must have been a challenge to work in. You earned some points somewhere, people. Honestly… I’m fortunate that the public restroom at the art store I worked in was never “polluted” so badly on MY shifts. I guess I was most fortunate.. that I have no horror stories to share. Still… cleaning up after other people’s “misses” was about the worst I got…