I just always shake my head when I see one of the female employess vacuming the boss office. I have never seen this in my life-lol Vacuming the boss office? Anyone ever hear of this?

I just always shake my head when I see one of the female employess vacuming the boss office. I have never seen this in my life-lol Vacuming the boss office? Anyone ever hear of this?


Yep, if it's his/her assistant and if he asked them to do it then that's their job.

Yep, if it's his/her assistant and if he asked them to do it then that's their job.


damm, that news to me. Administrative Asssitant/Slave

LOL

damm, that news to me. Administrative Asssitant/Slave

LOL


You're their assistant, that's your job, to assist them :lol: Seriously if your boss ask you to vaccum the floor in his office, I know you're not going to tell him no.

Things like that happen all the time, even though its not in your job description.

I just always shake my head when I see one of the female employess vacuming the boss office. I have never seen this in my life-lol Vacuming the boss office? Anyone ever hear of this?


usually our cleaning person does the vacuming not the employee's that's kind of wierd unless she's sucking up to something lol:lol:

i have done it. garbage taken out, too!

usually our cleaning person does the vacuming not the employee's that's kind of wierd unless she's sucking up to something lol:lol:


Exactly, I thought they had cleaning people who came in and did stuff like that after business hours. Not ask your assistant to vacum your office-lol

That's strange in a professional corporate atmosphere. Anywhere I worked, a cleaning crew came in at night. What kind of Micky Mouse operation are you working for Solomon? LOL.

i've got one even better. There was a time where my cheapo boss thought he'd save a few bucks and clean the office himself. instead of paying the $75 a week, he spent 5 hours on a saturday emptying all the garbage and vacuming and doing everything else the cleaners usually do. well, that lasted maybe a 3 weeks. then he went back to hiring someone.

That's strange in a professional corporate atmosphere. Anywhere I worked, a cleaning crew came in at night. What kind of Micky Mouse operation are you working for Solomon? LOL.



Exactly-lol

Exactly, I thought they had cleaning people who came in and did stuff like that after business hours. Not ask your assistant to vacum your office-lol


If he wasted something on the floor or if he saw something and he thought it needed cleaning then I can see his assistant getting it up for him. OR just maybe he/she was being nice and they noticed that the floor was dirty and needed cleaning and they took it upon themselves to clean the mess.

I find it very demeaning. A cleaning crew or custodian should do it, especially if it's routine-type cleaning. If it's something that just happened at the moment that needed cleanup, the boss should clean it up him/herself. If not, he, or she is either 1) an exploiter of people (in making the secretary do it), or 2) a cheap b****** who won't allocate money in his budget to hire a janitor.

Yes I've heard of it. My previous employer's front office manager used to do it for her boss .

I find it very demeaning. A cleaning crew or custodian should do it, especially if it's routine-type cleaning. If it's something that just happened at the moment that needed cleanup, the boss should clean it up him/herself. If not, he, or she is either 1) an exploiter of people (in making the secretary do it), or 2) a cheap b****** who won't allocate money in his budget to hire a janitor.


So being a Janitor is demeaning? Or above you? Just wondering

So being a Janitor is demeaning? Or above you? Just wondering
It's a matter of people having certain jobs. Janitors clean toilets and take out the garbage among other unpleasant duties. Yooch is a schoolteacher who studied hard to get where he is today. He should never be expected to do a janitor's work. Same as the janitor shouldn't be expected to teach or grade papers. Not that the janitor could anyway, just making a point. Do you want to scrub toilets for the company you work for, you know, if it's the janitor's day off?

It's a matter of people having certain jobs. Janitors clean toilets and take out the garbage among other unpleasant duties. Yooch is a schoolteacher who studied hard to get where he is today. He should never be expected to do a janitor's work. Same as the janitor shouldn't be expected to teach or grade papers. Not that the janitor could anyway, just making a point. Do you want to scrub toilets for the company you work for, you know, if it's the janitor's day off?


If there weren't any Janitors around and if it truly needed it then I would. I have to use that bathroom too. I'm at work for 9-10 hrs, and that's to long to hold pee. And to say that it's demeaning is a slap in the face to people how does that job everyday.

If there weren't any Janitors around and if it truly needed it then I would. I have to use that bathroom too. I'm at work for 9-10 hrs, and that's to long to hold pee. And to say that it's demeaning is a slap in the face to people how does that job everyday.
My daughter got tired of the dirty refrigerator at work in the employees' lounge. She decided to clean it out. It took her two hours, but as she put it, that was two hours she didn't have to do her job, and she got recognized by the manager for doing something that she was not asked to do.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not saying others should do other people's job, merely backing up Brie's comments abt how someone got tired of seeing something dirty and decided to clean it up. This wouldn't work at every job, but in this situation, my daughter did.

My daughter got tired of the dirty refrigerator at work in the employees' lounge. She decided to clean it out. It took her two hours, but as she put it, that was two hours she didn't have to do her job, and she got recognized by the manager for doing something that she was not asked to do.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not saying others should do other people's job, merely backing up Brie's comments abt how someone got tired of seeing something dirty and decided to clean it up. This wouldn't work at every job, but in this situation, my daughter did.


EXACTLY! If you see that something needs to be done and you don't mind doing it, then I see no problem with it.

If there weren't any Janitors around and if it truly needed it then I would. I have to use that bathroom too. I'm at work for 9-10 hrs, and that's to long to hold pee. And to say that it's demeaning is a slap in the face to people how does that job everyday.
Sure you're gonna scrub public toilets. :rolleyes: And Yooch saying it's demeaning for a boss to expect employees to clean doesn't mean he's insulting janitors. I wouldn't scrub a toilet on any job I worked at either. Does that mean I'm demeaning janitors? No, it means I studied hard to earn my degrees so I wouldn't have to scrub toilets or any other dirty work.

Sure you're gonna scrub public toilets. :rolleyes: And Yooch saying it's demeaning for a boss to expect employees to clean doesn't mean he's insulting janitors. I wouldn't scrub a toilet on any job I worked at either. Does that mean I'm demeaning janitors? No, it means I studied hard to earn my degrees so I wouldn't have to scrub toilets or any other dirty work.

I didn't see him as saying janitor work is demeaning either. Too much over analyzing on some peoples part.

Hey Bri....I'll let you come over to my house and scrub toilets. But you have to wear one of those sexy little french maid outfits!!!!:grineyes: :lol: :lol:

So being a Janitor is demeaning? Or above you? Just wondering

That is not what I am saying at all. If there's anyone at my work who treats janitors with the utmost of human respect, it is me. Their work is very important. What I was talking about was something completely different. I'm talking about a boss who runs roughshod over employees without regard to their job descriptions, who, in essence, takes advantage of them, oversteps his bounds--resulting in personal 'servitude', if you will.

Years ago, my brother was a Marine Corps NCO on Mediterranean duty. Some of the officers started having enlisted people shine their boots. My brother put an immediate stop to it. An abuse of power. That's the kind of thing I'm referring to, not a slam on janitors at all.