Do you know them?

Everywhere we go, our one of the first expectation about the place is cleanness. If the facility is nasty, we probably do not want to go back in there, on the other hand a clean place can create a very good impression to people. Today I will talk a little bit about some of the stuff members of “West Ridge Mall” who I met this week.

"West Ridge Mall" at Topeka KS, has a pretty big crew of stuff members. Chris Proctor, Rusty Scot, Brenda is a part of the crew, who works as janitors in there. They all have vocational training. They all like their job,because it has different kind of work environment to work at. They have a very fun crew, they play around with each other, give each other hard time, help themselves, also cooperative to one another, what helps them to work as a team. Keeping a place clean all the time is not that easy what it sounds like. Rusty who used to work for school district said, “its easy to deal with mall kids then school kids. It is not something he is very big fan of but however when he get done cleaning the mall restrooms he feels accomplished. Chris is little picky, it makes him happy when he gets scheduled for something he likes doing at work, which doesn’t not happens very often. But still he do what he gets schedule for and does a great job at it, no one complains. On the other side, what Brenda finds a little challenging at the job is, when she has to pull long hour shifts and have to keep up with everything.” They are provided with the latest equipment to work with from the mall. GREAT!

 One of my question for them was if anyone gets disrespectful at them for what they do. Rusty replied immediately that he will call the mall security to take care of it. Although this doesn’t happen a whole lot. Peoples are busy now days.

They do the dusting, moping, cleaning the tables at the food court, changing the trash, cleaning the bathrooms and all that. Out of the list one thing common about all of them was, their least favorite task to do is restrooms. Then Brenda also added “bathrooms are worse unless someone puke and they have to take care of that. The puke conversation went for a while. I am not going into detail, since I think I made my point.

What upsets them was people leaves their trashes on the table instead of throwing the trash and leaving them tray where they supposed to like any other fast food. I strongly agree with them because its food court not a fancy restaurant. We all know the rule but seems to forget sometime. They said that “it would be nice, if people leaves more tips on the table.”

It was great talking to these people until their manager showed up and said “Hurry up They Need to Get Back to Work.” FYI: she was kidding. They were very friendly to talk with. Just by talking with them I can tell they are good people. Often we do not realize how much they do for us. Just think for a second, how you would feel if:

# You walk in the mall restroom and find out its dirty/nasty, would you use it?

# After spending money getting your favorite meal, you cannot find a nice clean spot to seat and enjoy it, will it ruin your mood or nah?

This is the group of people who saves us from facing those terrible situation. Cleaning is no fun, but these awesome people are very enthusiastic. We should admire them and make them realize to us They Matters!