Housekeeping
By CaseyL
@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
United States
September 15, 2016 2:59pm CST
Well I made the college house keeping mad today and don't care that I did. I am a pretty easy going/go with the flow kind of person and I can deal with most things. What I can't deal with is the bathroom in my residence hall (dorm) hasn't been cleaned since Friday morning and it is now Thursday. Almost a week of it not being clean when they are supposed to be checked everyday, except weekends when because those are their days off. Monday - Friday they are supposed to take the trash out, refill the toilet paper, soap, and paper towels. They only clean the toilet/shower once a week unless it really needs it. I am find with it being done that way since it stays decent when done that way.
My problem (which I complained about in the right way to the RA) is that the bathroom hadn't been cleaned since Friday. We ran out of toilet paper Sunday since it wasn't refilled Friday, like it should have been, and now on THURSDAY it is finally getting refilled. The trash can was over flowing with paper towels, pads, tampons, and some other toiletry items. Plus some girl's boyfriend peed all over the toilet & the floor Monday night and the floor just got mopped today. Now the pee on the seat doesn't bother me normally I would just wipe it off, but can't do that without any toilet paper.
When I got back to my room this afternoon my roommate told me that the head cleaning lady wanted to speak to me and that she didn't sound happy at all. I can already tell I am about to have an even bigger problem on my hands.
I love my college, but the things like this make me angry considering I am paying almost $40,000 a year to go here. Some may say this is a pathetic/stupid reason to be angry but I believe that I pay way too much to go here for the bathrooms to not be cleaned, have roaches in the bathroom (big problem last year), have the outlet in the bathroom almost set my hair straighter on fire which caused me to have to buy a new one, and have maintenance tell me that my dresser is fine and I just have to much crap in it, even though my RFC forum from the last two years has said it was broken & would open & close properly & it was signed off by two different RAs that it needed to be fixed.
Again I love my college, but I am tired of being called a lair & that it is my fault, because housekeeping and maintenance just can't do their jobs properly.
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8 responses
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
16 Sep 16
I don't blame you. For that much for you, and imagine per person there - the schools making lots of money so the housekeeping needs to be doing their job!
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
16 Sep 16
They focus more on the areas that in coming students or alumni members see the most and the dean's office areas. So the Student Development Offices, the library, the new nursing building, etc. are cleaned very well daily and it makes me mad. Instead of trying to get students to come in they should be focusing more on the students that are already giving them money.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
16 Sep 16
@CaseyRoss9966 yes they should focus on the areas that are providing money. Money doesn't grow on trees and that's a lot of money per student to not have a clean environment. It's simple things too like making sure the toilet paper is there right?
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
16 Sep 16
@infatuatedbby yea. The only things they have to do in the dorms in take out the trash cans in the hall, take out the trash in the bathrooms, make sure we have soap, paper towels, and toilet paper. That is what they are supposed to do everyday & it's not a lot at all. They rarely ever have to clean the shower. The toilet gets cleaned about once a week.
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@MattMeng (3445)
• Hangzhou, China
16 Sep 16
I think your roommates should share some housework with you.
@MattMeng (3445)
• Hangzhou, China
16 Sep 16
@CaseyRoss9966 Yes, they didn't do well
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
16 Sep 16
It's not my roommate that is the problem. It is the cleaning people (housekeeping) that is the problem. It is there job to clean the bathrooms since we don't have private bathrooms in the rooms. They are pretty much singular community bathrooms. It is there job to clean the bathrooms Monday-Friday and take the all the trash in the dorm out (our dorms aren't big at all) and they don't do that at all in the dorms. They will just do the trash cans and clean the bathrooms on the main floor/lobby because that is the only thing any of the important people would see.
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@MissNikki (5237)
• Maple Ridge, British Columbia
16 Sep 16
Wow, that's horrible! They should be cleaning at least 5 days a week! With that many people there I would think that would be necessary. Keep complaining about them to your admins and hopefully someone will kick their butt into gear. 
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@LuciCJ (197)
• Cluj-Napoca, Romania
16 Sep 16
I fully agree with you!
I'm not sure if this brings any consolation, but I've seen worse - the persons having to bring in soap and toilet paper taking them away, for their own use.
It is odd to find that in your building you can only find toilet paper when the person who is supposed to provide it is on vacation and her temporary replacements do their job far more appropriately.
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@IvySaysHi (4467)
• United States
20 Sep 16
yeah id be pretty grossed out and mad about the bathrooms not being clean too. I'd prefer my own bathroom I could keep clean
@CoolPeace (1566)
• Miami, Florida
17 Sep 16
You have the right to make a report about that. It looks like they need a new housekeeping staff.
