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Little chaos at work (slight crazy cackle)
a month ago
Had a little bit of chaos at work on the 28th of July. Only now kind of getting the nerves / determination / focus to write about it.
So, my work-place, the university library, had a deep-cleaning scheduled for all the backoffice rooms. Just that I forgot about it. So it was a bit suspicious already in the morning when I was the only person in that wing on the floor I work at.
But I thought 'Okay, it's summer, some more folks took a day off, nothing uncommon.' And half an hour later, the workers of the cleaning service pop their head into my office, asking me if that was the right place for the deep-cleaning of the floors. At that moment I was like 'Oh dang, so that is why nobody was here.'
Thing is, those workers had no keys to the offices they were supposed to clean. Sure, if I would not have been here, they would have probably asked the secretary office to open these rooms, but now it was my responsibility to do so. But of course I quickly asked in the university secretary office as well if these people were who they claimed to be, don't want to be responsible for anything missing.
But then it also quickly turned out, these people were expecting to come in to nearly empty offices. According to them, we should have cleaned out the place from all easily moveable furniture etc. Which nobody had told us to do so (even though the secretary told us that we kind of should have known, as 'that obviously was the same thing that was done last year', which it was not).
So now these people told me, that this could have brought down the cleaning schedule totally down, maybe could even take several days, as they were not sure how long moving the furniture back and forth.
So now it was up to me to send out a group-email to everybody on my floor, to let them know not only what was going on, but in a kind of real-time what they were doing. You see, that whole mess started on monday, and we were told that the newly cleaned and waxed floor needs like half a day to dry properly. So if some offices were only cleaned on tuesday, the people from these rooms could only return on wednesday.
So it was all up to me to tell people which offices were done at what point, so people would not come in to an office they could not use.
Luckily in the end they managed to stil clean and wax the whole wing I was working in, so people could come in on tuesday as they had planned.
Yeah, this was waaaaaaay more responsibility in one day than I was used to, ahahha.
So, my work-place, the university library, had a deep-cleaning scheduled for all the backoffice rooms. Just that I forgot about it. So it was a bit suspicious already in the morning when I was the only person in that wing on the floor I work at.
But I thought 'Okay, it's summer, some more folks took a day off, nothing uncommon.' And half an hour later, the workers of the cleaning service pop their head into my office, asking me if that was the right place for the deep-cleaning of the floors. At that moment I was like 'Oh dang, so that is why nobody was here.'
Thing is, those workers had no keys to the offices they were supposed to clean. Sure, if I would not have been here, they would have probably asked the secretary office to open these rooms, but now it was my responsibility to do so. But of course I quickly asked in the university secretary office as well if these people were who they claimed to be, don't want to be responsible for anything missing.
But then it also quickly turned out, these people were expecting to come in to nearly empty offices. According to them, we should have cleaned out the place from all easily moveable furniture etc. Which nobody had told us to do so (even though the secretary told us that we kind of should have known, as 'that obviously was the same thing that was done last year', which it was not).
So now these people told me, that this could have brought down the cleaning schedule totally down, maybe could even take several days, as they were not sure how long moving the furniture back and forth.
So now it was up to me to send out a group-email to everybody on my floor, to let them know not only what was going on, but in a kind of real-time what they were doing. You see, that whole mess started on monday, and we were told that the newly cleaned and waxed floor needs like half a day to dry properly. So if some offices were only cleaned on tuesday, the people from these rooms could only return on wednesday.
So it was all up to me to tell people which offices were done at what point, so people would not come in to an office they could not use.
Luckily in the end they managed to stil clean and wax the whole wing I was working in, so people could come in on tuesday as they had planned.
Yeah, this was waaaaaaay more responsibility in one day than I was used to, ahahha.
Other than that, it sounds like you really stepped up and did well. I hope you get some sort of additional compensation (or at least proper thanks) for taking charge. You deserve it.