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Would you have been "pushy" too - or in other words, people who don't do their jobs
Keep in mind, he didn't call me that but I'm sure my janitor thought I was.
At 11 an alarm went off indicating that my fridge was above temperature. It was at 50 to be exact. I had to call the office to page the janitor (who just came back Monday after being out for 7 months) because he's never around when I need him. After probably 2 minutes, he showed up and had no idea what to do with the alarm. He finally figured it out, called the head of maintenance (A), looked in the fridge (but kept the door open), and then said to me "I'll look at it after you ladies go home. It's not iced up which is good." This was at 11 - we don't leave until 1:30. Half an hour later at 11:30, I approach the janitor and tell him he needs to call A, something needed to be done as the fridge was not getting any colder and it was actually blowing warm air. He didn't but when a maintenance guy came in with the paychecks, they stood there looking at the temperature and talking. The comment I then got from the janitor was "he'll tell A so something will be done." At noon, I once again approached him and said "I need someone here for the fridge. I have food in there that's going to go bad if it continues to stay at 50" About 2 minutes later A actually showed up who agreed that yes, someone needed to come in and look at it. Hello!!!!! I knew that at 11. The janitor I have is nice but that's all he is. I walked in this morning to him cleaning my floor - shouldn't that have been done yesterday after I left?
AFAIK, because of how he was before he went out, he's going to be watched closely now to see if he will continue to keep his job. His official title is Head Custodian but there is actually nothing custodian about him. If things are broken, he'll look at it and say "yes, it needs to be fixed" and if he does it, it's only when he wants to do it, not when it needs to be done. I had a wall fan I needed put on the wall back in September. It was still sitting unassembled in the box over April Vacation when my temporary custodian found it and put it up for us knowing we need it (there is a difference between janitor and custodian and this person is a true custodian) . Then there was today - my fridge was above temperature and his answer was "I'll look at it after you leave." It's a fridge - it can't wait until you decide to do something, it needs to be cold now. Either fix it or if you can't, call someone who can. I could give you plenty of other examples of him not doing his job but I won't go there, it'll only frustrate me more. Like I said, the guy is nice but he is just not suited to working during the day. He should be one of the night guys - they are the ones who typically only clean. And did I mention the reason he went out? He messed up his shoulder and last I heard, he can't lift over 15 pounds. Not that he did it anyway before but that means no helping me lift the 40 pound boxes of cheese and ham that my delivery guys leave on the floor of the freezer. That's something else he is suppose to do but never has. I don't lift them either, I just open them and put the individual packages on the shelves but my Food Service Director dislikes that. I do too, I prefer to keep the stuff in the boxes but if I can't lift it and the "custodian" won't help, how else am I suppose to get it off the floor?
Grrrrrrr. I don't look forward to going back tomorrow and dealing with him. I don't care how nice he is, he's making my job more difficult by not doing his correctly.
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