subject: Cleaning Up After Us - The Office Cleaners [print this page] When we come home after a lengthy day at the office it is easy to neglect the mess at home for an extra day as we just might not care enough at that moment to give it any more thought. When we go to work the next day though, we anticipate our office cleaners to have cleaned up the area so we don't have to worry about it at all. Do we even stop to ponder about the people that go around after us and clean up our chaos? Although we are at work and running around trying to complete things on time we can leave a pretty huge pile of junk to clean up and do not really give it another thought. There are those cleaners though that come in every night, long after we have gone home and get to work on the clutter we endlessly create.
Have you sat down and wondered about the mess that you create while you are at work or who has to clean it up while we get to sleep? I really didn't give much thought to it until I came home and saw the general wear and of my home from just a few people being at home during the day; so imagine what the office might look like once we leave for our cosy beds. That is why we should make things a little easier on them by just cleaning up after ourselves every now and then.
To make things a wee bit easier on them we could just start placing things in the rubbish instead of leaving the trash wherever it may lie. Nearly all offices have rubbish bins in them and often not that far from where we sit so maybe we should be placing the rubbish in them. Along with the trash in the office, dishes are also a major problem. We tend to put down our coffee cups beside the rubbish that we leave behind and not really worry if it stays there or not. Now even though we do not get paid to go to work and clean that does not mean we can be slobs and just leave rubbish lying around for someone else to clean up.
Although it may be someone else's job to clean up after us it does not mean that we should take advantage of that and just leave everything for them to clean up. Office cleaners have a life and families to go home to too and do not want to be at work longer than they have to just because some people cannot wash their own plates and cups and put rubbish in the bins.
There are many things we can do to assist those people that come in after us after a long day of their own and have to clean up our mess. If we just adjust one part of our office life like cleaning off some surfaces after we use them and putting the rubbish away when we go home then I bet you begin to feel better about yourself and help those people do their jobs more resourcefully and get to go home and see their family earlier and more full of energy.
