Corinne's Blog

Wednesday Sept 9th 2009

Today is the 3rd day of my second official week and I have gotten my cleaning checklist down to a science. I wish it wasn’t so redundant though. My employers are really picky about everything and they want me to clean things everyday that most people only clean once or twice a month. I work from 8:30am till 6:30pm with two 1 hour breaks. I’m trying to figure out what I am supposed to do when I’ve actually finished my job at hand. Like today, I was supposed to spend my first 3 hours shift doing my daily checklist ;which looks like this:

“8:30 start time, (meet in 1st floor kitchen), work till 11:30 to finish the daily checklist

___Empty and reload dishwasher
___Pick up each room & make bed with all the pillows
___Pick up all dirsty clothes & bring to laundry room and start washing & drying clothes
___Clean all bathrooms and toilets upstairs and main floor
___Spray air freshener in each room when finished
___Vacuum main floor hallways, kitchen,bar,family room, and 2nd and 3rd floors.
___Dry mop foyer, front entry, closet, living room, dining room wood floors
___Sponge mop all tile floors, marble stairs. bar floor and kitchen
____wet mop solarium
___Fold finished clothes and put them away
___Pick up all trash in each room and take out”

I have three hours to complete and finish my daily checklist, after I am supposed to take an hour break to eat lunch. my daily chores tell me to “Break in your (my) apartment and eat in your (my) kitchen”…this line on my schedule really bugs me because I feel that it is a bit condesending. I am on my break now and I’m think I’m going to take a nap. I was going to type about how I wish I didn’t have to do so much everyday..like vacuuming the same rooms everyday and mopping the same rooms everyday is kind of stupid because they don’t get that dirty from day to day especially when no one is walking in most of the rooms but me. I wish these people actually lived in their house so I’d have something to clean when I went around and recleaned what I already did right the first time. Doing this same routine everyday for this second week is already getting boring to me…maybe I should get another mp3 player to make things more interesting….

Off for a 20 minute power nap!