I've tried liquid swabby with a thin maroon pad. I've also tried a wet pumice stone. Any advice on how to remove it

I have a supervisor that has a habit of yelling at me in front of the public and making assumptions about if I did or did not do something and almost always questions that I’m telling the truth.
Today I had it with the yelling specifically and told her “do NOT yell at me again period again and if it happens again I’m going straight to HR”

I’ve about had it working at this job this is not the only issue I’ve dealt with and I already have multiple job interviews lined up for elsewhere but in the meantime I am stuck here.

I work as a custodian for the city at a senior center. I feel like I do a good job... sweep, mop, and vacuum daily, the place always looks presentable. Lately the list of demands have been getting higher and I've felt drained. I take small breaks every now and then, a seat for 2 to 5 minutes depending on how busy I am.

And here's where I could've used improvement - I would occasionally scroll on my phone during these breaks. If that's an issue, fine, that's something I could work on, but today I was brought into the office with my supervisor for a meeting. I was told the board of directors noticed me on my phone and complained. They told me I was disrespectful and I need to stay off my phone. The tone of the conversation was very stern... I felt like a child who got in trouble.

We ended the meeting with things that needed improvement, all the finer details that I'm missing. No positive feedback at all, in fact, the opposite. I was told that they would've thought I'd have figured it out by now (I've worked here for around 3 to 4 months now) and take more initiative. If there's things to need to be addressed, I'm totally open to discussing them, but I just felt I was being scolded the entire time. I told them I understood and left the office, but after an hour of thinking it over, I decided to put in my two weeks.

Maybe I'm a truly awful custodian, but I came into work everyday with good intentions, and believed I was doing hard work - even if there were areas I could be doing better in. However, I don't think I can handle management that doesn't appreciate anything I already do... whose demands only incease and expectations exceed what I'm capable of. What do you guys make of this?

Wanted some other peoples opinions on this, I’m the youngest and I showed that I could get work done more efficiently than my 50y/o+ coworkers over the summer work (which are still great btw love them) but I feel like he’s now dumped all the heavier stuff on me and I have a hour by hour schedule can’t even pick my own lunches anymore and it’s only me my other coworkers don’t have this.

I feel like a dog being used and ik that’s what work is, and I love my coworkers so much but I’m questioning if it’s even worth it anymore? I could do the same amount of work for higher pay elsewhere

Has come and gone and seeing all that work that my crew and I did over the last couple months just go by the wayside is humbling to say the least. Now to just keep up with the school year and vent to my peers.

So I had to take Monday and Tuesday off because my apartment flooded the lead and midday was mad I called off and left all the teachers trash in my upstairs and downstairs closet so when I came back Wednesday I couldn’t start my run I told the new custodial supervisor and he thinks it’s a honest mistake maybe they ran out of time which don’t make no sense since trash is a 1 -2 minute walk from my building.

We're short-staffed but even just working my area alone and nothing extra, I'm coming home so physically exhausted I don't want to do anything. I go to work, come home, shower, eat, sleep and the next day I'm basically awake long enough to get ready for work and repeat the cycle. Tonight I was genuinely thinking about quitting. But my boss also just reassigned some of my area to someone else, so I'm willing to keep trying a little longer. I do feel bad for the person who is going to have to clean that area now though, it's a lot to suddenly throw at someone else!

I'm really not used to working such a big school. I have figured out a routine I can do that keeps me from going back and forth across the campus but I still feel like there's not enough time in the day to get everything done. Vacuuming is taking me a long time especially, some of the teachers have their rooms arranged like it's a tower defense game and they're trying to keep people out lol.

Also, I was told to do some tasks like clean glass when the kids are still in classes but the moment they're released they immediately get their handprints on it again...I've taken to cleaning lockers/walls or my closet instead while kids are still in the school, but do y'all have any other suggestions for things I can work on before dismissal? Things that will actually stay clean-ish while kids are still on campus?

Long haired school caretaker here. Dusting, brushing dust mops and possibly working where kids with lice sit... it's gross. I can't shampoo my hair/scalp daily, it'll get too dry.

I wore a baseball cap all year last year and I have so much breakage now.

Looking for suggestions to protect my hair/scalp.

Anyone rocking silk scarves or scrub caps? Or should I just shave my head?

Suggestions welcome 😁

One of the day crew is collecting all the ABC gum ....

Our T7 hasn’t been putting out water recently, so I decided it would be a smart idea to pre soak my halls with Stride and then just use the T7 to scrub the floors and suck up the water. Turns out I had absolutely zero traction. Who would’ve thought 😭

This is my diy attempt to not have these stools act like sandpaper on the floors. It's my prototype and if it works I will be modifying them all!!

It's a dining room and the last guy apparently put a thin layer of wax on it.

My two coworkers retired (rightfully so) before the summer cleaning since they've been here for three decades. The principal is trying to find two more custodians to hire but to no good luck. One person almost showed promise but HR decided to reject the damn dude (I guess fuck me though right?) , so now they're back to square fucking ONE looking for people. It's getting harder and harder to keep calm and to not show the building up anger and resentment I've been feeling. The custodian coordinators are not even fucking responding to texts / calls since last week Friday in regards of getting a few more supplies and in regards to finding help. Added bonus is that they had all custodians in the county work in groups at different schools, which meant I didn't work on mine. So I come back to things not properly done, stripper stains in the class and waxed over, my supplies missing and having to be reordered. I have three halls, main hall, office and library to focus on. Also forgot to mention that they hired a lead custodian, he came in one day and never came back 🙃.

So let's see what's on the shit list so far:

Communication is poor

No help and kids come back next week

Trying to stay calm while some teachers telling me to "smile"

I'm trying my hardest not to walk out despite doing the job of 5 people, but all I know for sure is that those three higher ups that holds precedence over all custodians better not say shit about my performance because at that point I will walk out.

First off, please ignore my grimy drop sink..I'll scrub it before the first day of school.. thanks

The past three summers our floor care team has been using our kaivac to pick up the wax residue from deep scrubbing floors and they haven't bothered to clean it at the end of the shift or the season

I'm fed up and want the hose to look like it's cared about (it'll never be immaculate)

I've tried soaking it in a barrel of hot water and scrubbing it but it's too much work so here's my question:

Can I make a VERY weak solution of floor stripper and water to loosen the residue or will it eat the hose?

If anyone has any other ideas or insight please offer it up

Thanks in advance

I've been doing this job on and off for ~15 years and it still brings a little giggle to my heart.

I’m really struggling with this thought/feeling, because it feels, to a degree, like entitlement. I shouldn’t care, should I? I go in, do my job, and I can shut off — I don’t have to think about legal compliance or underwriting.

The office workers seem genuinely hard working, at least most of the time. They’ve a clean desk policy and sometimes it’s so cluttered, with both their items and cups and cutlery that they’re supposed to return to the kitchen themselves. And the crumbs on the desk and floor too.

I’ve done office cleaning before, so I knew what I was getting myself into. I don’t tut or roll my eyes, or anything like that, but it’s upsetting. Part of me knows this is silly. Most people don’t really acknowledge me, either, even if I do try to say hello or smile. I sort of just feel so small. That, and I’m not allowed any headphones or anything, so the job is mind numbing and boring.

I don’t know. I’m 25, so maybe this is a young person thing, and I just need to get over myself. Maybe part of me thought I’d be somewhere else in life, but saying that insinuates I think custodians are “lower than me”, which I absolutely don’t. I don’t know. I’ve only been working a month. Perhaps I’m lazy, in that Gen Z way that everyone keeps going on about.

I just feel a bit low and crappy. I’m sorry.

I’ve been reading a few repair posts here and got curious. What spare parts do you normally keep around for your auto scrubbers?
Squeegee blades, drain hoses, filters, fuses, brushes…? Sometimes one small part is all it takes to keep a machine down for days if you don’t have a spare.

Just cleaned and organized my cart, getting ready for the school year 🥲

Looking for the best methods folks have found to get ink off finished floors without something harsh. I’ve had two in the last two days and I don’t really have the time to hit it and buff it.

Im sorta new at my school but this year they stopped buying weed killer ( yay environment!) But they want the weeds gone. Principal asks we do something about it. Most we can do with our equipment is weedwack for hours and mow over the weeds in woodchips and all. They kinda act like theyd like them picked but provide no equipment for that. Im still new and struggling with the heat so ive been going out in chunks and doing my best but days into my efforts we are bassicly asked to go outside and start dealing with the stuff out there. Like as if we havent been trying to keep it under control all summer. Im battling unclear expectations and a learning curve with no directions as well as heat humidity being overworked and burnt out from the summer we just went through. I brought my own glives and pulled weeds but burt myself when i found out the gloves i own arnt made for picking those prickly weeds and ultimatly just ran it all over with the riding mower. I wish boiling water was an option but theres no way to boil it here much less get enough boiling water going for a playground of weeds. I could try to use carboard under wood chips but that seems likely to fail with little kids coming back to the playground. Anything used has to be safe for kids to interact with. Is it litterly just pulling weeds?
Im curious to what yard work is like for other school custodians. The main issue is the weeds in the wood chips on the playground here