r/Custodians

I am 21f , working for a cleaning company which of course manager can’t have their relative working under them , but in my case yes ..my relative is my manager …and today I hate this day …I was doing restrooms , and I knock say hello janitor here , excuse me ? Well stuff like that I say but I check restrooms and there’s was a guy mastubarting it shock me and it scared me …and my relative is mad at me because I of course that I was supposed “not exist” in that place where I am cleaning , exposed myself , I already told to security about this incident but if this gets to my cleaning company HR , and found out that my relative is my manager , …my relative might lost their job because of me …I am in shock and scared now , my relative is mad because they are more realistic , about that is my word against the guy that the guy could say anything else to avoid consequences …nothing illegal done , all this happening because i couldn’t handle a awkward situation, I only wish maybe call
My relative first …than this …I gonna lost my job , my relative is gonna lost my job if the cleaning company founds out that my relative has me working under them…please anyone help me ?

I am going into this job soon and very excited. I am in sc. Curious what you get paid in your state per day/hour

I hope everyone's summer goes well because over at our school it sounds like it will be a rough one already. We are very short handed and they are having trouble finding help. During the summer we usually work four ten hour days, but this year the plan is five eights. Everyone is uptight and our summers seem to be more stressful each year. Here's to getting yet another summer over with!

I manage a commercial property in Japan. Our Bathrooms are tiled with a drain. In my opinion the bathrooms smell badly like urine, despite the cleaners who are contracted mopping daily.

The cleaning company's management is saying the smell is from the drains and nothing can be done, but when I talked to the cleaning staff the say they haven't done anything but mopping and that a deep clean hasn't been done for a long time. I feel i'm being given the run-around by their management.

Edit: The cleaning company does have another contractor come out and use the srubby machine once a month. Is that enough for a bathroom that gets 100-200 users a day?

I'd like to take things into my own hands and do a deep cleaning of the floors as i'm positve the urine is soaked into the grout and tiles, and all the mopping is doing is smearing it around at this point.

Here is the general advice I've gotten from Youtube, but I'd like some second opinions.

1. Using a sprayer applying a diluted acid based cleaner (with rust inhibitors) to the tiles and grout to break down the surface layer of scale. Rinse after 15 ish minutes.
2. Apply an enzymatic cleaner and agitate with a rotational brush. Rinse.
3. Change from bleach based detergent to enzymatic for daily cleaning.

Is this something you would recommend to get rid of the smell long term? I'm interested in hearing other processes from professionals. And what products you could recommend to me. Thanks.

I sub for a school district and was going to be trying out a custodian job this friday, does anyone know what I should expect?

I believe its a high school and I will be working from 3-11pm.

I watched some orientation videos about janitorial a few times and some vlogs and its seems simple but I thought I'd hunt down a reddit like this and ask from veterans. I don't want to screw up or overthink is all.

Thanks in advance for any answers

I was cleaning the restrooms when one of the staff members came in (I’m a woman cleaning the women’s restroom) and proceeds to sit on the toilet and pee… mind you the toilet has been sprayed down with chemicals and the bowl is full of acidic bowl cleaner. Homegirl didn’t even wipe it off or flush the bowl cleaner first… just peed straight into it.

I told her “I mean it’s literally covered in chemicals - I’d wait if I were you” and she says “ah fuck it, it looks clean!”

Like GIRL you’re going to create mustard gas in this damn bathroom and now your ass is fully covered in bathroom cleaner… whatever.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh💀 people are something else

Anyone else wanna share how much time they have off for summer our school gets out the May 28th..they have a "workday" the 29th which is really just like those "shut your computer down" etc days. We have to work until June 3rd which is only 3 days and then I get off for the summer but have to be back on July 15th...school doesn't start until August 5th ...and I like 5 weeks is just not enough I'm exhausted and when I heard this I was so disappointed the years before I wouldn't have to go back til the 26th or 28th of july..idk I'm just tired and ready for summer but I dread just thinking about how much time I have...I know some of you work year round..but when you have other co workers who don't do their job or don't help..it's exhausting

I'm a custodian at a high school and have been for a few years. Most of my teachers are completely fine, but 2 of my art teachers and one of my science teachers have gotten so bad over the time I've worked here that I'm at the point where I'm staying late at least once a week because I have a huge section and their rooms take so long. They don't control their students at all; these are young adults but every day they dump pencil sharpeners and paint in the sinks, leave their project materials all over the floor, throw clay balls at the windows, dump glue all over the tables and floors (they do paper mache projects and she gives them a bowl with glue and a paintbrush and it ends up everywhere), and they dump paint on the floor that I couldn't even get off with our strongest chemicals and a scrubber on a drill. I'm starting to despise my job because of this.

I don't want to lose my job or start anything, but is there any way i can get these teachers to do their jobs and not let the kids do whatever they want? They've been messy since I started but nowhere near this bad, and I'm at my wits end now. Only bringing this up because it feels relevant here, but I'm autistic and therefore I struggle to not only know what I should and shouldn't communicate but I also tend to not know what is trying too hard with this job, so I'm afraid to skip something I feel like isn't my responsibility to save time and get into any trouble. If this is something I really don't have the power to change I understand, but any advice is appreciated. Sorry for the text wall