While
a team of ten employees engaged in an afternoon of cold-cut sandwiches, bags of
chips, fruit, and beverages, in the corporate conference room; exchanging feedback
via virtual conference calls.
I
was home anticipating arriving at the office to listen to some soothing music
and meditate over my week’s contingency plans, while completing my nightly
duties of corporate sanitation manager.
To
my dismay when I arrived at work, my plans drastically changed. After all, not
once did I anticipate walking into the primary conference room, finding twelve,
mahogany wood grain tables and twelve high back executive leather chairs in
disarray.
Sandwich
wrappings were tossed on the floor near the trash can; five empty water bottles
sat atop of the trash can, and the thin liner inside was torn from the force of
pressure applied as employees repeatedly stuffed it with 8x11 frame sheets of
paper, half empty cups of coffee, and food waste.
As I began scrolling through the office to
examine how much work was needed for the night shift, I continued seeing half
empty cups of coffee stuffed into thin trash can liners.
One
by one as I retrieved each thin liner, coffee poured through and covered the
carpet, soiling it heavily.
Food
crumbs were saturated in one cubicle; droppings of shredded paper laid across
the carpet near the hole puncher sitting atop of the counter.
When
I entered the employee lounge, food was stuck to the fabric of each chair,
coffee was splattered against the wall behind the trash can; and coffee had
been tossed and dried in the kitchen sink.
As
I walked over to the microwave and opened the door, I discovered food stuck on
the glass tray. I retrieved it, and sat it in the sink. And stepped directly into
a pile of dry icing from cake.
When
I arrived to the women’s restroom, I found garbage pouring out on the floor;
where someone had taken, and torn small pieces of paper towel and left those
pieces tossed across the floor.
In
the men’s room, someone left the stained toilet seat up; dried urine remained
on the back of the toilet seat, and torn paper was tossed on the floor.
As
turned to walk back down the hall to retrieve the vacuum from the closet, I
discovered cleaning and office supplies were getting low, so I stopped to
quickly compose a note to the purchasing manager- informing her of such, and to
remind her to order additional supplies, and left the note on her desk.
I
grabbed the vacuum and continued retrieving stuffed trash liners that tore open
time and again as I pulled them from the trash cans. Angry,
I released a heavy sigh, while questioning why adults continue to stuff thin
clear trash liners with hardback books and sharp edge artifacts (i.e., plastic
pop bottles and calendars) as well as half cups of coffee.
As
a sanitation manager, it baffles me how adults ignore the fact that office
trash cans aren't for disposing cups of fluid, especially when they also stuff soft cover books, heavy sheets of paper, and water bottles along with it. Common
sense tells you that attempting to retrieve that liner will result in fluid
splattering on the carpet and everything else in the liner.
These
are just a few examples of what sanitation managers encounter daily in
corporate America. But the industry of sanitation management doesn't earn the
respect from those their responsible for cleaning up behind. After all, when
employees are dishonorable to cleanliness, it impacts the attitude of the
sanitation team.
Working
together makes the difference. However, many corporate offices do not provide
effective cleanliness training to their employees; too busy to care about the
hygiene of the team and the environment they inhabit daily. Makes one wonder
how some people really live.
However,
one way to improve misunderstanding of cleanliness in the work environment, is
working closely with a professional out-source cleaning service provider, who
delivers friendly, respectable, dependable service that gets the job done.
Allen
Maintenance Corporation is a professional out-sourced cleaning service provider
that delivers effective results; despite the lack of honor some corporate
employees have towards office cleaning teams. After all, Allen Maintenance Corporation
has been working with local corporations in the Eastern District of Michigan
(i.e., Wayne, Oakland, Monroe, Livingston, and Washtenaw counties) for more
than 25 years.
All
Allen Maintenance Corporation employees are trained to combat accidental waste
problems left behind by disorderly employees who neglect to have respect for
the sanitation management cleaning team.
If
daily satisfaction service is what your business desires, building business
alliances with Allen Maintenance Corporation of Lincoln Park, MI. is your
golden key to building a firm alliance you can depend on.
Call
Allen Maintenance Corporation today at 313.383.4840, to discuss how this team
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Maintaining
an effective eye on the cleaning staff is a vital concern of any commercial operation
relying on outsourced cleaning service providers. But when your hired help is
provided access to your offices after hours, who’s watching the cleaning staff?
