It's cool to hear that, too many people forget that the janitor's, maintenance crews, and other misc jobs that most people would see as beneath them are all extremely important.
How much work would get done if every day you had to go dump your own trashcan? Getting you out of whatever grove you might have been in before? Or how demoralizing it would be to go to a workplace that has sticky floors?
(to anyone who might think I'm being sarcastic, I'm being sincere. Too often these positions aren't looked at as important to the working of the whole company, when it couldn't be farther from the truth.)
As someone who used to be a janitor I can tell you exactly why most people don't care about them: 95% of the time they're not employees, they're contractors. Every office I've worked in has contracted out the janitorial work to a business that strictly does office cleaning n days a week.
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from the janitor to the CEO.
It's cool to hear that, too many people forget that the janitor's, maintenance crews, and other misc jobs that most people would see as beneath them are all extremely important.
How much work would get done if every day you had to go dump your own trashcan? Getting you out of whatever grove you might have been in before? Or how demoralizing it would be to go to a workplace that has sticky floors?
(to anyone who might think I'm being sarcastic, I'm being sincere. Too often these positions aren't looked at as important to the working of the whole company, when it couldn't be farther from the truth.)
As someone who used to be a janitor I can tell you exactly why most people don't care about them: 95% of the time they're not employees, they're contractors. Every office I've worked in has contracted out the janitorial work to a business that strictly does office cleaning n days a week.
Anecdotally, the business in my story above did not, and still does not, contract out janitorial work.