It's a question about working conditions. Not that I'm bothered by them but Sian reckons I should be refusing to work where I am and she's worried I will be bringing nasty stuff back home.
It's one of those houses on those hoarder programs with stuff /everywhere/ and rooms that are blocked off with walls of junk and a floor littered with god knows what. I don't think they ever clean or vacuum as the cobwebs look like simmering out of a horror film but it doesn't seem particularly dirty or smelly, assist from a mummified rat in the kitchen under some stuff.
Both you and your employer have a legal duty to ensure your health, safety and wellbeing at work. That could mean refusing to work there, or being kitted out with appropriate protective gear (and training if to use it if required) and perhaps getting an extra payment to cover sterilising your clothes etc. if it's really that bad.
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I think she'd seen those programs where people go in to shit holes (NJ) wearing full hazmat suits and expecting it to be like that. It's not that bad. She's just being a melodramatic pain in the bum today :@
They're having a bathroom and a kitchen done. There is literally nowhere in the house to store the stuff so it is going to be a nightmare. I think the bathroom is being done first and the new bits will have to go in the kitchen for now. Going to be so much fun with the boxes for the kitchen in there while we try to fit it
I have never seen a place like it. They obviously don't pick anything up off the floor and it all gets trampled on and shredded to pieces. There are boxes and things stacked floor to ceiling everywhere. One bedroom upstairs is impossible to get into, the doorway is completely blocked with stuff chucked in the room and the other is half full with a little room for a bed.
I just walked out. Disgusting shit hole that has never ever been cleaned. The guy doing the bathroom said it's grim and would have walked out already if he was a contractor. Smells and piles of god knows what when I started moving stuff around. Never worked somewhere like it :(
I'm kinda surprised such a place would have ordered a new kitchen and bathroom in the first place, was the old stuff actually not functioning at all or something? I just thought they tended to be left to rot until the owner dies or gets carted off to the funny farm.
Yeah, me too. If you saw the couple in the street you wouldn't think they lived somewhere like that. They both look tidy and are very pleasant to talk to.
I'd be surprised if anyone would dare to touch the oven to cook something. Maybe they use stuff til it's no longer usable then replace it with new and do the same because they can't be bothered to clean it. I don't know. The inside of the base cupboards was covered in black dust and dirt and whatever else. Not somewhere you'd want to store your kitchen utensils.
They left some mugs for us to use to make coffee yesterday and they looked spotless. Odd.
they could do something CRAZY like employ cleaners. But they'd have to give them a better start than sounds possible without nuking the house from orbit.
A cleaner would never get in there to clean anything. Sian was right, it's one of those houses where someone goes in with a body suit and mask and rips everything out of there.
My dad and the installation manager are going to see the house tomorrow so he can see the state of it and decide where to go from there. I'm not going back til it's had a good clean, at least the kitchen.
