Interview with a head custodian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มี.ค. 2011
- An interview with a head custodian about the lack of career paths and standardized training for Janitors in a typical US School District.
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I thank you and admire you for doing this. A lot of times, it seems like we custodians are invisible... but not always. I am not a head custodian, but ever since I started with the Belton, MO school district, I have gave it my all to do my best. Yes, at times I get looked down upon, but when I have had a steady run, I have made pretty great relationships with my teachers. It really would be great if we could, as a whole, be consistent as a group, and be better recognized. 😄
Wow, I'm reading the comments, and its unfortunate that so many people have had negative experiences in this career. I have never been looked down on by a teacher or any staff member. The teachers have always treated me nice. When they threw parties, and there were leftovers, they would leave it all for me. Soda, food, cake, snacks, you name it. When a 5th grade teacher had a rough day with her class, I'd take a moment to listen to her and let her vent. Shoot, as I'm cleaning tables, the teacher would cry and let it all out. It was almost like therapy for her. And in terms of leadership, it has been a mixed bag over the years. Some principals would be neutral, some wouldn't care. But my latest principal backs me up 1000 percent. She can see the slackers and those that REALLY work. And the slackers that think that they can sham their way through life, well, they get to deal with her wrath. lol. And as far as training goes, I suppose it could have been better. I just paid attention along the way, all through the years. Use this technique on that, use this chemical on that area. It would be cool if there was a national janitorial test that we could take. And with a high score came the option to transfer to another state. I'm in southern California by the way.
I remember in first grade, I drew a picture for and hugged our janitor for doing what he did. I'm forever grateful for all the janitors that do what we don't seem to want to do--manage, maintain, and keep our places clean!
My adult works as a healthcare worker custodian at CUSD in San Diego he works very hard as well as all the others do .They deserve respect if it wasn't for those men/ women there .the environment would be unclean and not safe they work extremely hard and I'm very proud of all those women and men who do that job so let's give him a high-five
your right janitors should be treated with respect
I've done it 22 years and had I never endured so much disrespect until working as one in Stockton California amongst my own supposed coworkers, doing the same classification and experiencing the same issues😲🤤😵😨😱
We do have tons of positive experience working in union environments, including Teamsters.
@denkar2009 It's up to the end user(districts, head custodians, etc) to decide whether or not they want to do (OS1). It sounds like which ever district or school you work in has it's own plan...and that's great. Of course, we are going to be advocates of our program because we have data that proves that it does work. However, we certainly don't go around forcing people to do (OS1). We only get involved if someone asks for our help or expresses some kind of interest in our program.
If you're aware of the Performance Exam for Custodian, please explain in details exactly what I need to do to proceed the Performance Exam, thank.
Major problems at my University. Micromanaging. No respect for sure, Supervisors who never even did the job, and still to this day don't know how to strip and wax a floor. Very low work morale. Freeze hiring creating more work as the University grows, spreading everyone thin, falsifying evaluations after we sign them they turn them into human resources with their comments written in, that we had no knowledge of. Not allowed to take a shampoo machine home, but getting text messages while I am home relaxing I get a text from my supervisor I need the machine I bought a new house, so I don't want you to think it was stolen, but if I did that cause for termination.
I've been a custodian for 9 to 10 years I recently got promoted to a head custodian I never held it was just before give me some tools to help me get the vision and walking to this position they've been absent without a head custoned for a minute I'm in the elementary school but I guess my ability of knowing the job is knowledge of the job about position how can I make this work for me without carrying the whole building on my shoulder give me some tools to create a nice environment and clean building standards
@denkar2009 Not sure what meeting you are referring to exactly. Every meeting that we (ManageMen) have been invited to, and known about...we've shown up. The initial meeting with the district/head custodians we were supposed to have, we were told was canceled and not to come. The 2nd meeting we had was supposed to be out at the central warehouse, we showed up...and nobody else did. The 3rd meeting was out at Taylorsville High with a handful of head custodians in the district.
How long should it take one person
Just a word of advice. Janitor and Custodian are two different job descriptions. Janitors don't provide security or provode many duties a custodian does. This man doesn't use the word Janitor as his title if you notice.
i know what he is saying
it's all pawns and kings.....and people push their duties on the janitor..
good morning , what about a good fat raise they need us pretty bad !
my son type o sorry