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[RainyDayGal]

Years ago I worked at a company and they let the janitor go to save money. I can tell you I was NOT happy when I had to clean the mens bathroom.

[Burnsite]

I work for a green co and we all recycle and sort our own trash--not a biggie.

[Disneylandfan]

As a teacher I empty 5 trash cans per day. Sometimes the kids help, sometimes it's just me.

[MikafromTopeka]

On 2/12/2014 sparklestar said:

We were recently informed by our company that there would no longer be cleaning staff coming around to empty our garbage cans. We are now told that every employee has to bring their garbage can to a specific location (in the middle of a large office) where there are larger receptables and we will have to empty our own garbage. I've been in the workforce for 42 years and have never, ever been required to do this.

Anyone have this particular experience?

My husband has been at his job for 42 years also and if this is the biggest change you've experienced then you're lucky.

I worked a long term temp assignment for one of Ross Perot's companies once and we were required to pick staples with our finger nails because they couldn't run to an office supply and buy a few dozen staple pullers. They had us take apart information packets to rearrange during our down time while waiting for the phone banks we were trained to answer to open for a Medicare program a long long time ago.

[RedTop]

The hospital office I worked in was only cleaned once a week by housekeeping staff. Every day we were responsible for pulling our own trash, and setting it outside the door when we left at the end of the day. I was the last one out, and did this for 10 years before I retired. Wasn't a big deal, and made things much easier for the housekeeping staff.

[151949]

About 12 years ago the hospital where i worked informed us that we would no longer have housekeepers - just porters who would mop the floors every night but we the nurses had to clean the rooms. It didn't last long once the patients and visitors started to complain because the nurses were busy cleaning and not availabe to care for the patients and the delays to send new admissions reached into several hours because the rooms had not been cleaned. Probably only lasted a month but that was long enough to break the housekeepers union which was the whole point in the first place.

[GCR18]

My company did this twelve years ago. Once a week your can would be emptied, the rest of the days you took it and dumped it in a big can. The big can was emptied every night. I work for the same company, but now in a different office. The desk cans here are emptied twice a week, but there is no dumping it in between. We used to have our desks cleaned and dusted, but that's been stopped too. We've been given disinfectant kits to clean our own desk.

[MikafromTopeka]

On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said: About 12 years ago the hospital where i worked informed us that we would no longer have housekeepers - just porters who would mop the floors every night but we the nurses had to clean the rooms. It didn't last long once the patients and visitors started to complain because the nurses were busy cleaning and not availabe to care for the patients and the delays to send new admissions reached into several hours because the rooms had not been cleaned. Probably only lasted a month but that was long enough to break the housekeepers union which was the whole point in the first place.

Do most hospitals have housekeepers or do they use CNA's for those jobs?

[Love my grandkids]

No biggie IMO.

[151949]

On 2/12/2014 kaybee said:

On 2/12/2014 happy housewife said: About 12 years ago the hospital where i worked informed us that we would no longer have housekeepers - just porters who would mop the floors every night but we the nurses had to clean the rooms. It didn't last long once the patients and visitors started to complain because the nurses were busy cleaning and not availabe to care for the patients and the delays to send new admissions reached into several hours because the rooms had not been cleaned. Probably only lasted a month but that was long enough to break the housekeepers union which was the whole point in the first place.

Do most hospitals have housekeepers or do they use CNA's for those jobs?

Except for that one brief period I always worked where there were housekeepers.But then , i worked in ICU and we do not use CNAs there. The patients are cared for exclusely by RNs.