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  you mean firemen?
context: Bodily waste can literally be a biohazard. Plus it stinks. It's gross.
  And, if anything, this should increase the amount of respect people have for janitors. People look down on it simply because they're selfish idiots who feel the need to be "above" someone, but janitors are some of the most important and underpaid people out there. Be proud of what you do, because it enables the rest of us to feel civilized and sanitary. 
  If all janitors stopped showing up to work, those people who look down upon them would be among the first to complain. >
  
  I'm pretty sure OP's view is something most janitors acquire after they get used to it. >
  
  Honestly, I'm not sure how people don't get it from cleaning their own bathroom at home. >
  
  do you think people piss and shit everywhere in their bathrooms? how often do you think people clean their bathrooms where something like vomit becomes not gross? >
  
  I piss on my walls to mark my territory >
  
  but you don’t clean it up right? half the point still stands >
  
  I think people have an instinctual aversion to poop, especially, because of the potential of bacterial poisoning. I don't think you can become sick from inhaling poop smells all the time, but you definitely don't want to go around touching poop with your bare hands at all. >
  
  Human poop is definitely not something that washes off of skin easily. You'll be stuck with the smell for a while. >
  
  
  This stuff is only disgusting because of the way people tend to look at it.
  
  so... it's disgusting for the reasons that anything is disgusting >
  
  It’s only disgusting if you look at it. Or smell it. Or touch it. >
  
  I mean, it makes sense that humans would be more repulsed by body waste than something like chlorine.
  We have had to deal with getting rid of our body waste for thousands of years. We haven't had concentrated chlorine for more than a few hundred years. >
  
  I work in solid waste. People love to act like I’m a bottom feeder in between asking to borrow money for stuff because none of them have good benefits. >
  
  I was a janitor for the community college I attended at 18yo. I cleaned 4 buildings in only 3 hours which left the rest of my 8hour shift completely open. It was weird because I was cleaning up after my "peers" yet they were the ones shouting "it's f**ked up you're a woman AND a janitor" and catcalling and other stuff. The stigma for this job really sucks, and you're right. You ARE protected at all times via gloves, disinfectant etc. if you use them correctly. If anything, janitors need more recognition because it'd be a helluva lot dirtier without them. >
  
  
  "it's f**ked up you're a woman AND a janitor"
  
  What? Why? What does gender have to do with being a janitor? >
  
  Cause Janitors are men, firefighters are men, nurses are women, teachers are women, and hairdressers are, um, flamboyant...
  ...
  And her peers are from the 1910s.
  \/s (except for the last line)