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I volunteered at a Mosque. They had a gym/multipurpose hall. We had roll out carpets for prayer. The Dysons were super expensive and sucked on those carpets. It would get full very often and get clogged often. We used a Seebo corded vacuum and it was great. Light duty is all the Dyson is good for.

Very good advice. Most jobs don’t give a flip and don’t care about you. You’re just there to do a job. I watched a custodian after 34 years of work retire his last day his supervisor did not say anything to him other than hang your keys up in the custodial closet. That was it nothing else. Not even a wish you a great retirement nothing. It is extremely sad to watch people treat people like that, but it’s life and it goes on. But when you have a teacher or a admin staff retire out it’s like a party for a day for one person with rocking chairs as gifts and a big hoopla. I’ve seen this happen over and over. Being a custodian there is never hardly any recognition, but I blame that all on your maintenance supervisor. He is the person that sets example for a great place to work or one that is just a warm body and that’s all he needs in that spot.

Yes sir

Our system for subs is you call the operations supervisor, and they find you a sub if we have one. Our subs go through training at every building before they are thrown to the wolf packs. Most of our subs do a better job then some of the full-time workers and we often get asked if they can keep them by the administrators. I think the training has a lot to do with it. The sub can then see what the expectations are and also know how the routine is done correctly.

The thank you's are nice, from staff and students, administrators, especially from co-workers. The random gifts in the mailbox are from a genuine gratefulness of tasks performed. However I get the most satisfaction when I can wow the highly educated colleagues by solving their complex dilemma (touch screen tv won't work) by applying the most basic troubleshooting techniques (plugging the unit into the outlet).

Hey I want to say thank you so much for reaffirming to not be intimidated. Needing to learn for my job! Clear instructions, great work and videos you have been proving. Wish you the best in your business 👍

Amen brother

Don't forget Valentines day. Gliter like nerds candy takes time to get it all.

I had a employee that did it and I told him not to mix chemicals but sometimes he still dose it

I've been doing this almost 5 years. I left the job last year because of everything you just said but returned because I actually missed it. Thankfully they let me return but I now realize exactly what you are saying and you're 100% correct.....Your videos really have made a difference in my attitude and my wanting to continue with this career. Thanks Mr Jeff 👍

I might be in the minority, but I'm really lucky to work for a large school corporation where the head custodians only need to call the facility coordinator to inform them they won't be at school that day. I am one of three Floating Head Custodians. We will get a call or text usually around 5:00 am letting us know what school we need to cover that day. If we don't get a call or text, we have a designated Home school we are always assigned to work where we just become an extra person for that school for the day. We have 23 buildings, so on any given day I can be just about anywhere. We all three know enough about each building to keep it running efficiently. Our school sub contracts their custodians, so if any of them are going to be absent, it's up to that company to replace that person.

We lost all our sub custodians. They decided to contract the sub department. It was worse, they had no training, no consistent staff in buildings, items coming up missing, no proper background checks. There are jobs that pay more of a competitive wage.

Where I work as a custodian they do not have a sudstue custodian

In my experience its bad they don’t listen and could careless smh

Definitely love walking into the empty building as well

Hey Jeff always enjoy your content started doing custodial work at the school in 1991 did it for multiple years laughing came back been back for about 10 years now so I've certainly had a lot of things going on with subs I can appreciate what you said about the older teachers when I started I was in my early thirties and most of the teachers were in there you know 50s and 60s and it certainly a different culture but I appreciate your encouragement I won't bore you with all the 30 years of some stories that I have but I really like the one about the guy and the faucet I think we've all had that guy at one time or another LOL

Once, a sub took the dustmop off the handle and completely soaked it in his mop bucket, and that's how he mopped the floors. He didn't last more than a week. 🤦‍♂

I ask my teachers if Liberace farted.

I can always tell when the afternoon guy called in by how the school looks in the morning. Lights are left on and mop bucket isn't rinsed out. Equipment not put back where it's supposed to go.

I don't even worry about it. Glitter just makes everything sparkle more! Besides that, the teachers knew what they were getting into when they broke out the glitter 😉

I’m blessed to work at the school I work at. Teachers and students are very appreciative of the work I do. Last school year I received over four hundred dollars in gift cards. The students write notes of appreciation. If my day isn’t going so well a smile a hello from a student or any staff member brightens my day. I love my work.

If the VCT floor isn't clean, I find the vacuum does not work so well. Since Jeff keeps his floors in perfect condition he doesn't have this problem 🙂I use a plastic scraper to dislodge the glitter first and then vacuum.

It can be difficult and easy to forget that cleaning is about expecting the unexpected, it’s a dynamic environment, you are involved in daily maintainer, people aren’t going to stand still. That said I have drawn the line where someone intentionally makes a spill (if I see it happen) although on that occassion it was at a hospital and a member of staff was spilling tea as they walking and called them out it on corridor because myself or cleaner will have to clean it up (that and risk of slip) Mess due to rushing around I get but was hen they have time and choose to be ignorant about surroundings does strike a nerve to me almost as if their saying ‘it’s ok, the cleaner will do it’ Do you have PayPal as a alternative to buy me a cofffe? As I can support via that.

I quickly learnt that a wet cloth can make it even more if a task, I do have reusable microfibre cloths but as I said on Facebook group I use disposable cloths (very cheap ones) with a slight damp magic eraser and then do a clean over with better cloths. In part because I don’t want reusable mucrofibre cloths stuck or spread with glitter in washing machines. I rather keep the battle with glitter confined to just the school. The simplest solution would be to ban it from those demons to use (aka reception kids) but I can’t help but think how cleaners must have felt when they cleaned my desk after making my snowman which was made with cotton wool glue and some glitter. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so harsh on them. (Still got to this day) No I think I will, be harsh, I was a perfect saint at school, my own nostalgia says I was!! Your perspective on this is appreciated, hearing that it has to be hoovered often on carpets is a truth I have to accept as I was kinda hoping there be a some simple trick to getting it off easily. Ah well.

One of your best and helpful videos. A lot of the job is mental also. The younger generation does not support you. Putting up chairs to help out or sweep their messes up for example. It only takes one person of the staff to start the "If they aren't doing it why should I". The schools are not training employees also. There are so many frustrating, unfair, condescending things I deal with every shift, it can make you feel overwhelmed and not appreciated. Especially when you work for a large district like LAUSD. The bureaucracy is unbelievable. What helps me to deal with feeling down about the job is to team up with the better workers who have similar values and work ethics. It helps with comradery and you have someone to bounce off and talk about things. They understand what you are going through. I also have to do feel good about the work and do it for my satisfaction. Thanks for the video Mr. Jeff and have a great Holiday.

When I first started at my Elementary school I dealt with something worse then glitter .They carved animals out of ivory bar soap

I've been a custodian for 23 years both nights and days in a Elementary building .I always tell the teachers when there is a mess it's job security for me

For me when it comes to vacuums, I mainly prefer my ProTeam upright & my ProTeam backpack, at my actual workplace I use a Clarke upright( mainly one I got for them lol), but I have used a RYOBI cordless stick vacuum before to help a friend with renovating this house & I loved that thing, unfortunately I couldn’t use it much because the battery was low & the charger wasn’t there

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Boy yesterday i wasnt to happy. Thick black matks up and down the band hall. Well S#$! I said but a tenis ball with some cleaner on it makes short work. Been doing this for 12 years and i still love what i do but somedays are a bear but its what we get paid to do.

Ive been a custodian since June and I'm 59 years old . I was a route Delivery driver for almost 30 years and wasn't appreciated at all .I've got more appreciation from the school I worked for in a few short months than I have in the 28 years at my old job. However, I do a good job for me , I approach this job the same way I approached every job and that's to put my best effort forward. One thing I didn't expect In this field is how much I really enjoy it. I enjoy making the school a better environment for learning, I put alot of pride into my work. I love your videos Mr Jeff , keep up the good work , merry Christmas.

Glitter is forever!! ❤🎉

Those 3 M sticky pads are awesome !

We stripped up all the elementary school I work at over the summer. It hadn't been done in years I was told. My first year. They bought me a new polisher buffer, I spray buff all the hallways every 5 days, always looks nice on Monday. I sweep and vacuum every day, and I believe it's glitter season, the older kids will make snow. I hear.

thats not glitter in the wax it just sparkles from the perfect job done😄

How about, an opportunity to teach the students to clean up after themselves. ❤

Hey Jeff... Im in Canada & have a question. Do you think Custodians are obligated to straighten desks? Thanks

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Couldnt you just use a neutral cleaner and a black stripping pad? I rarely need to use stripper

Try it in Raymond’s sink 🤣

I had a teacher who had picture frames up, but never got around to putting pictures in them. Like at least 4 weeks went by. So I printed out some internet memes and put them in and a few days later i walked into the room and she started hitting me asking how long they have been in there. Next day she had pictures of her family in there.

Halloween of 2021 some of my old coworkers scared my old boss with a life size version of Pighead from the saw franchise.

Had a toilet bowl cleaner that was NASTY. Would smoke up and fume out as soon as it hit any bio waste. Lord! Got a bloody nose from it the one time. Didn't mix it, always flush the toilets and urinals before hand but man it was nasty. Lucky we changed bowl cleaner 😂

Hey jeff how do you handle instructors/teachers you constantly complain? I have one who writes work orders im not doing this im not doing that my boss tells me this guy just like to conplain about everything not gonna lie its kinda stress full.

That would be catastrophic at my school 😂😂😂

Too good 😂

Mr. Jeff, I was so excited to start my new chapter in the "Custodial arts" but there's a lady on my team who's a total racist button pusher. I REALLY am starting to enjoy the work, and I think part of that is cause of your videos. Keep em coming dude...as far as I'm concerned your "team lead."

Muster gas

Ain’t that the truth

😂😂 yes done it