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Every Member a Janitor
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Date: May 27, 2013 01:57AM
Posted with permission. A hilarios but true story of the member janitorial program and its unparalleled success(sarcasm):
"My son and I went to clean for a while this morning since it was our families "turn" to clean the church, I thought I would go give it a try. I decided to have us clean the bathrooms, since we have never done it.
We never got a lesson, or even a discussion, on how to clean. When we first moved in I tried to get in touch with another family to clean with us, to coordinate, but they didn't seem interested in coordinating with us. So I have cleaned the chapel and the classrooms, but never done the bathrooms.
First of all, I have no idea what to use to wipe down surfaces. Those paper towels that are more like paper than like towels? They leave a film behind and don't really pick up dirt. I couldn't find the special toilet cleaner that the books says to use. I scrubbed one toilet for like five minutes and couldn't get it clean, no matter how hard I tried. The light in the maintenance room is burnt out, and I had no idea where a light bulb was to replace it. The water in the room that you fill up the mop bucket doesn't work - it doesn't turn on at all, hot or cold. So I ended up "washing" the bathroom floors by spraying the general disinfectant and using those disgusting paper towels to wipe it up. I couldn't figure out how to open the paper towel dispensers in the bathrooms to refill the empty sides, so I didn't bother.
In other words, my son and I were there for one hour, ten minutes. When we left, it hardly looked like we did anything. Seriously, if you walked in right now, I don't think you would be able to notice that anything was actually cleaned, even though we worked hard the whole time. I felt frustrated by the lack of training, or description, or understanding of what I was actually supposed to use, do, or replace. (More than once I thought, "I should have just brought my own cleaning supplies and towels because this is ridiculous.") I spent over an hour simply doing the bathrooms, when the rest of the building was still a mess. I could have been there at least two more hours to get the rest done, but I had other things to do on my Saturday morning. And all three of my bathrooms here at home are a mess, and if I would have used that hour and ten minutes at my own home, I could have gotten all three of my own bathrooms cleaned spotlessly. Instead, the church bathrooms look half-heartedly done, because I didn't know how to use the products. Very frustrating. I don't know if I'll be doing that again.
You are welcome to post the story about me cleaning the church on your forum. I'll tell you one more thing I forgot to include above. My son thought the toilet bowl cleaner wands were actually dusters. He was so convincing, I almost wasn't sure myself. But ew, gross. Imagine using a toilet bowl wand as a duster. And THEN imagine that it was actually a duster, and I used it to clean the toilet bowl! It really felt like a comedy of errors, the entire time.
Oh yeah. While we were cleaning the bathrooms my son asked me what the little garbage sacks were for in the individual women's bathrooms. So he got his first lesson about the female menstrual cycle on Saturday! Other important talks are lined up for the near future."