New Warehouse Job and a cleaning rota.

tizerbelle

davidhwdn wrote: »

I disagree completely,if i am employed as warehouse assistant/drivers mate then that is what i am,not a cleaner,why don't they employ a cleaner and give someone else a job.

Perhaps because times are hard and they can't afford to employ someone else.

Take a look at your job description and/or contract, like as not there will be a section in there that talks about undertaking other reasonable duties as required by the employer.

Taking part in a rota with other staff to undertake cleaning duties is going to be classed as reasonable. Refuse and you are in all likelihood going to be on a disciplinary charge of gross misconduct for insubordination / refusing to follow a reasonable management instruction and certainly in our place people have been sacked on first disciplinary for such behaviour.

bap98189

I don't see what the big deal is. If you were asked to clean the wagon you wouldn't complain. It's a canteen and a toilet, get on and do it. Everyone does it at home anyway, I fail to see how this is any different.

scooby088

jay_1978 wrote: »

Ok I am not licking up semen so I take back my offer to clean the toilets yuk lol ... Thats just gross, You must work with animals mate eek

Thankfully i no longer work there! but there are also a long list of other things which are just too sick to even mention. But the company installed cameras and the culprit was found out and sacked. And before anyone say's anything it wasn't me :rotfl:

moneypuddle

Count yourself lucky it was in the bathroom. At my old job someone found a poop in the microwave

TRYINGTOSWIM

until recently I worked in a newsagent where to keep overheads down and us all keep our jobs we had a rota to clean toilet instead of there being a cleaner. we all just got on with it.
I would say if you have already made it known you wont do it,then you have probably lessened your chances of passing the probation. sorry to be blunt but in my home at the moment bills and mortgage come before principles

CFC

As other posters have said, if it's in your contract as other duties then yes, you have to do it. If it isn't in your contract but it is required and you don't do it, then my goodness, you'd have to be the best warehouse assistant and drivers mate EVER to keep your job. Do you really think that the job you do is so skilled and hard to fill that you can get away with not being a team player?

DCFC79

OP how has it gone since you were last on here,

YORKSHIRELASS

I was a Department Manager who had worked for the same Company for 12 years until recently. I took my turn at cleaning the loo and washing up like everyone else because I didnt want my staff and colleagues to think I wasnt part of the team. I can see your point, but I think by refusing you are giving a really bad impression of yourself to your workmates and employer.

Savvy_Sue

just wondering if there aren't env. health regs relating to cleaning of canteen? special products / procedures etc.

I'd have thought that the time / effort required to train ALL staff to do this would outweigh costs of 1 cleaner.

pimento

scooby088 wrote: »

I can see OP's point, we had a cleaner but there is going beyond the realms of what i would do, the cleaner who cleaned our toilet and canteen used to find semen and crap wiped all over the doors of the toilets. now no matter what i find that really gross.

Perhspa the employer thinks that if everyone has to take a turn with the loo brush, it might make people leave it more in a state they'd wish to find it.