well i have been working since 7 this morning. i have been realizing the past few days that it seems like i might have ocd based on my habits at work.
i like to wash dishes only when they are grouped by kind. i can't just put them in the sink and grab what may, i have to separate them out. you may think that's not to bad but we don't just have mugs and plates. we have 6 kinds of plates - floral design red (biggest), plain white, colored (red and yellow, i can wash the different colors as one group, but in the drying rack they have to be reds then yellows), white floral design, little white floral, and small plain white. - and 3 sizes of bowls - floral red (salad), white floral (bowl of soup), and plain white (cup of soup).
i can wash the mugs all together (in their own group, not intermixed with plates or what have you. but i do have to organize them on the shelf, no one else does at all but i do. it goes the two state mugs (alaska and hawaii), 3 off white mugs, grey mug, white curvy mug, white straight mug, kim's blue mug, charlie's buffalo bill mug, 5 green mugs, one dark green mug, (those were all the small sizes, now for the larges) 4 striped white mugs, 2 maroon mugs, 2 orange mugs, 4 tall skinny white mugs, 2 not quite as tall (but should be) white mugs.
they all have to be in order. when i come in i will organize them, they will stay that way until i am gone and then will get messed up by the next day, i can tell how busy it was by how messed up they are. if it wasn't bust most are in the right spot still.
i straighten chairs after people are done sitting in them, sometimes to fast. i have to hold myself back to at least let them out the doors before i fix their chairs. i don't think they like it when i straighten them when they are still standing there putting their coats on.
everything has to be super clean. sometimes when it has been super busy and things aren't as clean as i want i think ahh i need to clean this up before the owners come in. then the owners come in and say "wow its so clean, good job thomas."
mopping. normally when i sweep and mop its when i am there by myself, i was never told how to mop i just told them i knew how. one time my boss was there when i did mop they asked if i always mop like that. i said "yeah, why?" apparently most people never really move all the stuff and mop under it.
speaking of mopping. before i mop i always have to take out the trash and do the dishes. if you don't do the dishes first they drip on the floor when they dry. and if you don't take the trash out first. you leave wet foot prints on the floor when you come in, different than the dry foot prints you leave if you walk on the floor when its still wet and your shoes are dry. (oh by the way you can't do that either)
paper towels. i am pretty sure i use the most paper towels ever. we went through a box in a week and a half. a box is 30 rolls. thats alot.
and those are just some of the things. but its time to be done now. gotta go.
and those lists were done from memory, without looing at all.
I also have some of these OCD tendencies of which you speak. I honestly think that some of them make a lot of sense. Of course you have to do the dishes and carry the trash out before you mop. From a cleaning perspective, it only makes logical sense. On the other hand, it's possible that we inherited some of these tendencies from Kaye. I throw a fit every time I open the cupboard door to find the juice glasses and regular glasses mixed together, not to mention different styles. Bah! I also basically have my closet organized by style and in rainbow color order. Really...color in general just has to go in rainbow order for me. Let's hear it for OCD! ~me
ReplyDeleteYou two are nuts! Kidding. I'm not super OCD at all but when eating Skittles I have to divide them into colors and then eat the stray ones so that there are even numbers of all the colors and then I eat one from each color in order of my least favorite flavor to my favorite until they are gone. Fun Sized packs are really the bast for me but generally I just try to only take a few out of the package at a time.
ReplyDeleteNice work on reciting the lists from memory...also nice work on impressing the owners. Oh heck...nice work in general.
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