Could You be an Airport Cleaner – Central Janitorial Services

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When you are next at an airport take a few moments to look around. Are the floors strewn with litter and detritus? Not usually.

Most busy international airports employ a legion of cleaners whose job it is to keep the airport terminals clean and free from detritus. They perform their work while surrounded by busy people headed off on business trips and harassed families going away for their annual vacations. All the fast food restaurants produce enough packaging to fill the airport bins every day, several times over.

Marie is an airport cleaner at Glasgow’s busy international airport. She has previously gained experience at various other Scottish airports, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, but prefers Glasgow as it is much busier.

A typical day for her starts at 4 a.m. when she starts the early morning shift, preparing the airport for that days influx of travellers. She says that the most common daily problem is unattended baggage. ‘Even with the heightened awareness of terrorism people can still forget and wander away from their bags. When I come across a bag that is not with anyone I am required to report it to airport security. Some poeple can get quite upset when their hand luggage is treated like a bomb.

Marie told us that she doesn’t meet many rude or obnoxious passengers but they do appear from time to time. She said: ‘There was a young man at the airport last week who purposely dropped his milkshake on the floor that I had just polished and another who just threw his food packaging toward a bin without bother to make sure that it went inside’.

As well as the unattended bags that might be bombs and the occasional rude passenger Marie has to deal with all the odd things that people leave behind. She said: ‘These days I find a lot of mobile phones, mp3 players and laptops. I’ve even found baby’s pushchairs, toys, medicines and I even once found a false leg.’

A key skill of anyone working as a cleaner in an airport is the ability to deal with people from all walks of life and from a variety of nationalities. ‘The ability to stay calm and help a passenger who is about to miss their flight remain calm is definitely a bonus’ said Marie.

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