Our washing machines and dryer units are at least 7 years
old. For normal use say at your home, that wouldn’t be a big deal. My parents
have had their dryer set for 25 years. It reminds me of when I was 4 and wore
TMNT footie pajamas—anyway, I digress. Back to washing machines. For machines
in a couple-hundred-person building, a few years can easily equal thousands of
loads of laundry. Keeping crappy machines for too long and making students
suffer, because the department is too cheap is just not right!
To add to the “just not right” column, the maintenance personnel
refuse to complete any work orders associated with washers or dryers. They claim
they visit the hall and fix the machines; however, how can that be when at this
very moment 10 machines are already broken (again?), yet the dude was here
earlier this morning. I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty confident he just shows
up, punches in, and sits his fat ass on the couch in the downstairs common area
lounge, watching Maury and Jerry Springer. Making matters worse, this Monday
morning will bring the custodial manager to my office door demanding to charge
the students for every broken washer even though they were never fixed.
It does not matter that my building has been without
fully working laundry facilities since October. No one responsible to fix the
problem actually lives here—they just assume the dirty laundry we all have magically
disappears or cleans itself. They continue to blame the residents for damaging
the dryers and clogging the washing machines. That has nothing to do with it!
The machines appear to be constantly breaking down, because they were never
fixed in the first place.
I refuse to charge residents for work that is not being
completed. I refuse to break my moral code and force students who pay for a
service to be charged when said service is not provided. I am tired of
maintenance and custodial staffs spending most of their time in the break room
and then turning around accusing professional staff of not doing our jobs. For
once, why don’t we try to not swindle our students and simply fix. The. Damn.
Washers.
I have been there and understand your pain. I was SURE the custodian staff was hiding up in on the 3rd floor lounge and watching tv all morning instead of cleaning the hallways and stairwells. There was a spilled soda in one of the lesser-used stairwells, and I waited a week to see if it was going to be cleaned up (the custodians are required to sweep and mop ALL the stairwells every day). After a week I decided to watch the previous day's hallway cameras and watched as the custodians walked into the lounge at 8:15am, came out for lunch, then went back in at 1:00 and did not leave until 3pm. Armed with that I went to my boss, and he just shrugged his shoulders and said there wasn't anything he could do. Um, oh about getting off your ass and calling the custodial supervisor and DO YOUR JOB? It took another 2 weeks before the soda was cleaned up. And guess what? The custodians wanted me to charge the residents since it was "so hard to clean up." Ugh.
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