I'm a public parking garage janitor in a big city that likes to try to cosplay as a small town and whose existence usually gets overlooked by the rest of the country (Portland, OR*). I also previously worked as a janitor for two different companies at the airport (almost entirely indoors) for a few years pre-COVID, and have lived in various parts of Portland Metro (which includes some of the surrounding cities) for over a decade after having previously always lived in small or rural towns.
Besides the actual garage levels, it's also my duty to maintain some (but not all) sidewalks, restrooms, offices areas, and spaces shared with other businesses in the same building. The company I work for also manages multiple locations downtown, and I've cleaned at all currently operational ones at least once (including one flat-top), but have mostly only worked a select few locations.
* If you have questions about things regarding the local ICE facility, I encourage you to look up reports from our local news orgs instead, and to review multiple as biases in various directions still exist and different ones have sometimes had access to different information and moments. I work downtown, and that's not where the facility is at. Same thing if you're curious how the National Guard thing is going.
Besides the actual garage levels, it's also my duty to maintain some (but not all) sidewalks, restrooms, offices areas, and spaces shared with other businesses in the same building. The company I work for also manages multiple locations downtown, and I've cleaned at all currently operational ones at least once (including one flat-top), but have mostly only worked a select few locations.
* If you have questions about things regarding the local ICE facility, I encourage you to look up reports from our local news orgs instead, and to review multiple as biases in various directions still exist and different ones have sometimes had access to different information and moments. I work downtown, and that's not where the facility is at. Same thing if you're curious how the National Guard thing is going.
What is the weirdest (not necessarily gross) thing that you have come across while working?
CvanHelsing wrote:
What is the weirdest (not necessarily gross) thing that you have come across while working?
That's sort of difficult, since there's so many different ways to measure it. There's often very practical and seemingly important things that just seem to get abandoned, and I find it really confusing, but the things themselves usually aren't actually weird to see in general.
I think maybe I'll go with the bit of graffiti where it looks like someone was just doing their geometry homework or something on the pavement. Like, it's just shapes literal math written out.