Doing the job of a janitor or a custodian is not easy.
It doesn't matter how hard you worked to get where you are, custodians and janitors will always be there doing the difficult and dirty work, and they deserve a huge amount of respect for that.
The crazy thing about being a member of this profession is that you sometimes see the truly foul side of humanity. In many cases, you may find yourself wondering how a fellow human could leave such a mess behind.
These 9 revelations from real custodians and janitors range from infuriating to downright baffling. There's no way that you can read these tales and not get angry with people for some of the inconsiderate things they do to others.
Have you ever heard or experienced a story as bad as some of these? Let us know in the comments.
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“The amount of boogers we scrape off walls could feed a small village.” – redrumbum
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“When I was 15, I worked at a big grocery store as part of the maintenance team. Being the rookie, I had to clean both male and female bathrooms. Almost every time I went to clean the male bathroom, I would find raw sausages in the ” – tashafina
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“From what I understand, somebody had been fired [from a department store] and they broke in after hours to pour white paint all over the clothing racks and carpets, destroying a lot of clothes and staining the carpet. I came that night and sat on the floor with a few other guys who worked in the place. We scrubbed for about five hours until we got a lot of the paint out, and then we rearranged the racks to cover up any remaining splotches." – kitterpup
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“In college, I worked part time as a janitor on campus. One of the most f***ed up things I saw as a janitor was this floor of one of the quads we had to clean during spring break. We were cleaning this floor and the entire floor was absolutely covered with pistachio shells. I mean absolutely covered: as in there wasn't an inch of the floor without piles of pistachio shells on it. This wasn't a room, this was an entire floor. I still cannot explain to this day why or how this happened…" – halfstep
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"The graffiti [we have to clean] on the walls of ladies' lavatories is almost always grosser and funnier than that of men's lavatories." – jace53
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“I work as a cleaner in a casino, those slot machines are 20 times dirtier then a toilet. Also, those chairs you're sitting on have been pissed on.” – ternalTeaTime
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“One night, we noticed an above average amount of flies congregating around a lunch bag hanging off a coat hanger in the hallway. It also kind of stinks, so I prod it with my broom, and a ziplock bag full of brown sludge falls out and explodes on the floor. The putrid stench of whatever was in the bag hits me like a truck and I instantly projectile vomit on the floor. My friend who was also working with me as a janitor comes over and can't even come within 20 feet because it smells so bad. We shovel it into a snow shovel and dump it in the dumpster, but by then, the smell has permeated the entire building, and we had to open every window, and basically mop the whole building with this powerful anti-odor stuff that we had. To this day, I have no idea what could have been in that bag: My hypothesis is that it was a pork chop sandwich that had liquefied and fermented over the course of several months." – Reddit User
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"Cleaned a theater/art gallery for a while. One day after a concert found that someone had broken a glass into a urinal and then vomited into said urinal." – Tisroc
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"We had gotten about 6 or 7 inches of rain over the course of a 4 day period. This in turn backed up all of the sewers. There's an alarm in the sewer pipes that lets us know if something is up, but for whatever reason, it happened to be disabled that day. Sewer pipe broke from all the pressure and flooded the entire basement with disgusting sewer water about 4 or 5 inches deep." – tcrazyknuckles
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