@esseco46 wrote:
What type of mentality roams the offices of the government who awarded this contract:
https://theworldnews.net/au-news/lucrative-public-housing-cleaning-contracts-extended-despite-fines
Money.
That company probably does it at the lowest price.
I used to work in a school & I don't know if the system works the same but I would not be surprised. The company that had the contract hired our cleaners but the pay rate wasn't very high. Even when the hired company changed they subcontracted to the same cleaners and at one stage their wage actually went down per hour.
We always got to know the cleaners pretty well as they cleaned from about 3.45pm-7.30pm when we were often there. What the pay & estimated hours (as calculated by the company) amounted to was the cleaners had about 3 minutes per classroom. That was to do everything such as vaccuum, clean cobwebs, wipre down anything that needed wiping, empty the bin & re line it.
The prin complained about the cleaning standard a couple of times as window ledges were often left undone, there were sometimes cobwebs missed and so on. But given those cleaners also had corridors, staff rooms, mopping, toilets and a lot of portable classrooms to carry all their gear to, plus all the rubbish to cart to the dumper, I can understand how they might have missed some things as it was a large school.
So my comment about the public housing cleaners would be don't necessarily blame them as we haven't heard their side of this. The company that employs them is a different matter, I suspect they are paying the lowest possible wage.
But it does bring up one point. Sometimes we had problems in the toilets with excrement wiped on walls, food stuck down toilets and so on. When that happened the prin would call a meeting of the (usually boys) who used that toilet block and read them the riot act.
In this housing complex, there's no one to have a go at these tenants unfortunately. But it seems to me that some of them have brought the problems down on themselves. It's not fair for people to spit on walls, wipe their poo all over walls, drop their used condoms and rubbish everywhere and just expect cleaners to deal with it.
I'm thinking there should be some CCTV in protective cages and tenants who are this filthy in public areas need to be pulled up about it. It's not good enough.
If you're a cleaner on contract to mop corridors and clean laundries and that sort of thing, I'm betting you are not being paid extra time to sort out shopping trolleys and spit. Disgusting behaviour by some of the tenants, that's all i can say.
