Custodians are much more important than most people think. Its more work than just picking up after teenagers. The group of people who run around with a Microfiber cleansing cloth is one of the most important people in the school. The group of people who refill the Paper towel dispenser and Automatic soap dispenser aren’t nobodies. A school couldn’t function without its janitors. Janitors may just be more important than those who run the school. They do jobs that no else would ever do but jobs that people demand be done.

It is imperative that schools is clean. Schools get sanitation scores just like restaurants and if they don’t pass, they can’t have students in their. Imagine how many things in a school can be messy and unsanitary. There are locker rooms, wrestling mats, cafeterias, bathrooms and classrooms. Locker rooms can get really nasty. It is like a teenagers bathroom, but multiplied by ten. Wrestling rooms get extremely dirty as well. When the staff infection MRSA was on the rise, wrestling mats were much to blame. Without a custodian doing their job,a student could get harmed by something.
There are a lot of jobs like this where people completely take the people who do them for granted. Often the jobs that we don’t acknowledge are the most important. There are lots of things we expect to be there, without realizing, that other people do for us. When you go into the office and fill up that coffee cup, do we think of who had it washed and ready for us? How often do we notice that the dirty office floor from yesterday was actually cleaned by a person?. It is as if we just assume some robot does these things, or as the sun set these things just reset.

It is just plain wrong to ignore these people. The people who work these jobs often work extremely odd and long hours. Being a maid or custodian often is extremely grueling work and doesn’t bring in a lot of cash. It is emotionally draining to work these jobs and never get any relief. It is hard for a person to expend so much energy and get so little in return. Jobs like this are known for making people feel worthless and lowly.

Next time you’re walking down the hallway at school or work, take a second and think about the person who made it the way it was. Remember that it doesn’t just magically stay orderly. It takes an immense amount of work to keep a house or office building running. The people who clean and organize a business are they ones who make it run. If they weren’t around to do their job, there couldn’t be any business.

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