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Q: Ayis in buildings using dirty water to clean?
I don't know if any one else has seen this sight but whenever I see ayis doing their cleaning rounds in office buildings or wherever I always notice that the buckets they use to mop the floor with are almost always filled with dark, mirky water. Is this some kind of special cleaning agent?! Do you see the same thing?
It's because they've finished cleaning a small section of the office but rather than refilling the bucket and starting on the next section they'll hover around and very, very slowly just re-do the same area. Sandbagging at at its finest. If it's an old person and they keep taking breaks but very slowly start moving and repeating the same stuff every time someone dressed smartly walks past you know what's goin' down.
No i know exactly what you mean. I've seen that too. They never replace the dirty water with clean water. The water was clean at first, but after they mop the floor several times it will get dirty. They probably didn't know that they were supposed to dump the dirty water out and get fresh new water.
They are so attuned to saving ridiculously small amounts of money. Even a bucket of water has to be used to an infinite extent. The girls in my office insist on using cloths until they drop apart at the seams.
darkstar1:
Yes the cloths too! It's those dirt-black rags I see all the time too...ugh.
RachelDiD:
The sick part is when the companies will scrimp and save on things like hygiene all year, and then blow thousands of RMB on some stupid office party/teambuilding outing/Spring Festival event (so that they can gain face by all the employees celebrating and saying what a great employer they are, and so forth). Call me a spoiled brat, but I really would prefer to work for an employer who gave me no parties, and jack squat on anything outside of the contract....so long as I didn't have to work in an office that gets doused by putrid water with a rag that was last cleaned during the Qing dynasty.
Notice that the water is also used to clean toilets. Same as in kfc or McDonald's, they first clean toilet floors and use the same damp mop to clean the floor of place where you wash hands
I think it's more of a labor thing than for money reason.
Then again, did you read yesterday's news , that the ice KFC adds to its cola, has times more bacteria than the toilet water has ? KFC just apologized so it's confirmed now.
If you teach in a university, and stay late in the classroom, you probably will find that the ayis clean the blackboard with the same dirty mop that just cleaned the floor!
Lets try this again without apple screwing up my post
ohchina is right it has to do with laziness.
Justin why single out KFC and McDonald's, it is the Chinese staff that are doing it. And they do it along with worse habits in their own places.
JustinF:
Because those places, including Starbucks are supposed to be run in a way where the staff follow the guidelines, however it is not done at those chains in China, which, along with not following non-smoking rules, makes it frustrating when I am trying to get a quick fix at an easily accessible place.
Well the thing that really has me puzzled (and laughing) is the time the cleaning is done. It's ludicrous watching these women mop the floors, yeah with filthy water, as people are still coming and going in the building. Yesterday I saw the best - or worst - example of cleaning stupidity since I have been here. The local supermarket, Sunday mid morning. Place is really packed. Woman mopping the floor either hitting the feet of people standing and walking or just mopping around them. Utter idiocy! People walked over what she had done within seconds and there is NO compensation if you go arse over tit because the floor is wet, right?
In the countryside, they wash clothes right next to heavily polluted rivers. I'm talking about garbage everywhere, strange discoloration and dead fish floating downstream.
This doesn't surprise me at all, many people in China put frugality before hygiene. TIC.
Another thing I've noticed is that they do things just because they are supposed to do them without thinking to much. The ayi would rather 'clean' the office every single day using one bucket-full of water, hey she doesn't want to waste water, it's too mafan to change the water once it gets dirty. If you go and tell her that it's better to clean every other day or maybe twice a week, but do it effectively, she would start arguing how unhygienic it is to not clean every single day and say some chengyu in the line of day day clean people people healthy.
Yeah, the ayi for my apartment building would always use the same filthy rag and rancid water to clean my apartment. Needless to say, I made doubly-sure to lock the door to my room on the days she showed up. I'm OCD and usually just prefer to clean my own room, anyway--but the disguisting 'cleaning' style really affirmed my habits.
It's not even worth it to explain that 'cleaning' in that manner is just plain worse than not cleaning at all. I would have been happy to have no ayi--especially since my roomates were a bunch of grown up teenagers who would let their dirty dishes stack up in the sink for a week and would otherwise refuse to pick up after themselves, just because they paid 50 kuai a month for an ayi to come in once a week. Unfortunately, she was some sort of package deal when it came to renting a place in that complex.
