Gross Work Experiences (Long)

[Mishi]

The poor, poor animals were inevitably covered with infection under the matted fur.

This was a regular occurance for me, that's the reason for the variable price range at my old workplace. It wasn't fun explaining during phone calls that: "Sorry, but I can't take your word for it. I have to view the dog in order to give you an accurate quote." Clean-up jobs like the one you described cost $65+ vs. a normal clip for $45.

[Andara Bledin]

- Cleaning up after the locum vet covered the consult room while expressing a Shih-Tzu's anal glands.

Holy cow, I'm not even anything related to a vet and I know better than that. >_<

The worst scent I've ever smelt was the unwashed, infected fold of skin on a Pekinese dog's nose. Lifted some skin to clean it and the smell lingered for the rest of the day.

Decaying matter, probably. I've run into this with the morbidly obese who don't get themselves cleaned properly so their dead skin gets trapped in the folds of their flesh and then rots. *shudder*

^-.-^

[ralerin]

Dried, crusted, moldy spitup on the side of a shelf in the baby aisle.

[Seshat]

This was a regular occurance for me, that's the reason for the variable price range at my old workplace. It wasn't fun explaining during phone calls that: "Sorry, but I can't take your word for it. I have to view the dog in order to give you an accurate quote." Clean-up jobs like the one you described cost $65+ vs. a normal clip for $45.

AND they doubtless complained about how ugly their dog looked.

(Yes, the dogs we shaved did look ugly. Because their wounds were now exposed and in a state where the vets could TREAT the poor things.)

I don't know if I could do that for a living. I'd be wanting to shout and yell and throw things at the neglectful owners.

[Victory Sabre]

Cleaning up the Men's room after Mr. Slim Fast crapped everywhere in it.

Seeing apple peals in it was nasty. Took me 20 min to get the bathroom cleaned.

[Kitten in the box]

here is some of the things I had to deal with and clean. (because checkers are "above" cleaning nasty messes)

1. A pile of FRESHLY MADE human feces on the floor. (we chased the guy out and told him never come back. Still waiting for him to keep his promise to call corproate and get us fired.)

2. Feces covered female's restroom. I mean seriously did a ginormous baby shit in there? obviously the toilets were the cleanest in the restroom

3. In the men's restroom there was a dirty magazine on the floor. White stuff dripping off the stall wall and white stuff on the magazine. (The nastiest one I had to clean)

[Teefies2]

Okay this isn't really gross, unless you think about it ;-)

We clean our bathrooms once a day (so sue me, we don't get huge amounts of traffic in there) at the end of the day. When I went to clean the men's room last night, it was spotless, other than a little bit of dirt in the sink. So yay me, I don't have too work hard to clean this one! Then I looked at the trash can. It also was SPOTLESS, nothing in there at all!!!

Now kids, that means:

1. No one used the men's room from the previous night at 9pm (ish) until when I went to clean it at 9pm (ish) a full 24 hours. ORRRRRRRRR

2. Anyone who used the men's room not only didn't make a mess that needed to be cleaned, they ALSO didn't wash their hands (thereby generating at least one paper towel in the trash).

I leave it to you to decide ............. for me, I was EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Kogarashi]

I leave it to you to decide ............. for me, I was EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I'll bet that was the world's cleanest door handle after you were done.

[Teefies2]

I'll bet that was the world's cleanest door handle after you were done.

And you'd be right

[Clover]

I just don't understand how people can use the bathroom and not wash their hands-I end up scrubbing mine repeatedly under steaming hot water, but then I'm germophobic. Still, at least scrub up once, it's disgusting not to wash your hands after you've used the restroom!

People. I tell ya.

[Seshat]

Decaying matter, probably. I've run into this with the morbidly obese who don't get themselves cleaned properly so their dead skin gets trapped in the folds of their flesh and then rots.

Infected skin smells bad enough.

I just don't understand how people can use the bathroom and not wash their hands.

I've heard men say that they don't splash onto themselves, so there's nothing to clean.

I admit, penile skin is not a mucous membrane like vulval skin is, so it's essentially dry skin - not that unlike the softer skin on the underside of a chin or the inside of the elbow.

However, if nothing else, that skin has been stuck inside clothing all day and may well be sweaty; there is almost certain to be microscopic splashback; and from a general hygiene point of view, any excuse to wash your hands is a good one.

[BamaBabe]

When visiting my BIL and SIL recently, I discovered that my niece has the tendency to smear her poop on the walls. It grossed me out, but I wasn't about to clean it. Does that make me a bad person?

[Nemesis44UK]

I've heard men say that they don't splash onto themselves, so there's nothing to clean.

Yeah, that's just an excuse for being a dirty lazyass and not washing your hands.

[Nemesis44UK]

I worked on a college Servicedesk for around four years and nearly every day we would be called upon to clean up evidence that mankind can be nasty.

- Received a call to clean up copious amounts of vomit from two computers, where the student had puked all over them.
- Clean up a used condom and leaking contents where a thoughtful student had left it draped like a Christmas decoration on the PC monitor.
- Unblocked a toilet that people had continued to use, even though it was overflowing with poo. Cause of blockage? Someone thought a pint glass was flushable
- Called to install anti-porn browsing software and remove soiled keyboard from the Porter's Lodge.
- Unblocking shower trays. Every single day, we would have to dissassemble the drain and remove some really nasty stuff from someone's shower. Some of the students would just carry on using it, even though it was blocked, so that the dirty water of the previous users were lapping around their ankles

One of the worst though, was that we got a complaint about a bad smell and we went to investigate. It was like a solid wall of stench as soon as you opened the door.

Inside the flat, the occupants had had a pre-Christmas party. There was empty beer cans and bottles all over the place, chips and dips left on the table. Overflowing ashtrays all over the place (even though there was a strict no smoking policy) butts on the floor. Spilled drinks and a pile of dried vomit in one of the corners.
The kitchen was full of dirty pots and pans, the bins were overflowing and a couple of the bowls had maggots in what was left of the chilli.
The toilet reeked. It hadn't been flushed and there was fingerpainting in poo on the walls.
The best part? The students had left for Christmas break two weeks previously
The dirty beggars had not cleaned up after themselves, they had simply had their party and gone on holiday, expecting (??) someone to clean it up.
No way were the cleaners going to do this. What we did, though, was document it thoroughly, with tons of photos and written statements (and took a little video too!) and then called in the industrial cleaning specialists, who charge hundreds of pounds per day.
When the students came back, they each had an envelope containing their share of the cleaning costs and a stern warning that if it happened again, they would be expelled.

[EricKei]

I still cannot comprehend people not washing after using the facilities, especially my fellow guys...I mean, do you REALLY want to transfer whatever happens to be on the surface of your willy to your face/hair (everybody seems to fix their damn hair while they're in there), computer, desk, steering wheel...or worst of all, the FOOD that you're about to eat?

Geez... >_< le barf