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I work at a community center, basically letting the public use computers with internet access.
Attached to the center is a banquet hall through a shared hallway. The hallway was constructed the same time as the center. The hallway is also open for hall rentals, due to the hall needing access to the handicapped-accessible bathroom. I'm responsible for maintaining both the hallway and the center.
Now that it's set up, nothing could have prepared me for the before-Christmas present that was left over the weekend when I opened the center yesterday. I opened the door, turned on the light...
It looked like a bunch of kids had been turned loose in the hallway. Juice and candy were on the walls, doors, and floor. It also looked like they kicked along the walls, putting in shoe marks. Someone rammed the door between the hall and the hallway into the wall, putting in a nice hole through it with the door handle, and the top of the sink in the bathroom was coming apart of the wall and is loose.
Worse yet, there's a furnace area where I keep the cleaning supplies, and there was juice spilled on the furnace, and an empty cup, half-eaten frosting-covered pretzel stick, and cupcake wrapper inside. What if the kids started playing with the cleaners? Where were the parents?
Guess who had to clean it up?
I got the walls and doors cleaned, but I've just mopped the floor again and I still can't get some of the candy to come off. At least there was no other fluids/solids to clean.
I'm lucky my wife came along with her digital camera - I took pictures of everything and forwarded them to my boss. I'll be talking to the person in charge of the hall tomorrow and showing him the damage - I imagine that after our meeting, he'll be talking to the people who last rented out the hall. I'll also be looking into how to best secure the furnace cabinet (sliding folding doors, might be tricky to lock up).
Attached to the center is a banquet hall through a shared hallway. The hallway was constructed the same time as the center. The hallway is also open for hall rentals, due to the hall needing access to the handicapped-accessible bathroom. I'm responsible for maintaining both the hallway and the center.
Now that it's set up, nothing could have prepared me for the before-Christmas present that was left over the weekend when I opened the center yesterday. I opened the door, turned on the light...
It looked like a bunch of kids had been turned loose in the hallway. Juice and candy were on the walls, doors, and floor. It also looked like they kicked along the walls, putting in shoe marks. Someone rammed the door between the hall and the hallway into the wall, putting in a nice hole through it with the door handle, and the top of the sink in the bathroom was coming apart of the wall and is loose.
Worse yet, there's a furnace area where I keep the cleaning supplies, and there was juice spilled on the furnace, and an empty cup, half-eaten frosting-covered pretzel stick, and cupcake wrapper inside. What if the kids started playing with the cleaners? Where were the parents?
Guess who had to clean it up?
I got the walls and doors cleaned, but I've just mopped the floor again and I still can't get some of the candy to come off. At least there was no other fluids/solids to clean. I'm lucky my wife came along with her digital camera - I took pictures of everything and forwarded them to my boss. I'll be talking to the person in charge of the hall tomorrow and showing him the damage - I imagine that after our meeting, he'll be talking to the people who last rented out the hall. I'll also be looking into how to best secure the furnace cabinet (sliding folding doors, might be tricky to lock up).
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