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  It's disgusting because of the easily transferable diseases...
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) >
  
  you mean firemen? >
  
  Damn. That totally would have been better :D >
  
  Sounds no different to being a nurse. >
  
  I've done janitorial work in medical facilities, it's a lot different than working in a movie theater or an office building.  In a medical facility, the doctors, the nursing staff and the janitorial staff are all in total agreement that there is absolutely no such thing as "good enough", everything has to be done properly to code and often needs to be documented.
  Vacuuming a movie theater hallway was a job I could have (and have) done stoned, but in a medical facility, the thing you forget to disinfect could be the thing that kills a patient or is ground zero of an outbreak. >
  
  I typed out a pretty long comment elsewhere, but I’m shocked to hear this. 
  At the hospital I worked at, the nurses and techs were grateful if we had the trash bags changed. On a med surg floor, I can promise you no one had the time to critique the room’s cleanliness. 
  Now in ICU, they def are more particular, but for good reason. But ICU had their own janitorial staff, who were so nice and did great jobs and I was so jealous of the ICU’s janitorial staff. >
  
  Dude, I used to be great friends with the Janitor who worked in our building. He got paid almost as much as the people who worked there, and he had a freaking smooth job. Doesn't really have a supervisor breathing down his neck, doesn't really have to answer to anyone directly, works at his own pace, has keys to every god damn door in the building, and knows how to properly strip and seal a tile floor. I envied his position, and would have swapped places with him at any time. 
  I guess people don't really realize that Janitors do more than just clean toilets and bathrooms. Sure, that's part of their job, but it's an insignificant part compared to all the other work the man did. I applied several times for the position, but as it turns out, you need actual education to become a proper Janitor, because you'll be handling a lot of chemicals. Stripping, sealing, waxing and polishing floors properly is some serious science, and it looks fun as hell to me. >
  
  Upvoted for truly unpopular opinion >
  
  I appreciate the janitorial work. 
  However, the ways grown adults have destroyed a stall at my companies office is enough for me to never want to be in that position.  A janitor shouldn't have to put on a biohazard suit because somehow someone got their shit everywhere except in the toilet. >
  
  You know it's a bad day at work when you have to bring the deck sprayer to clean the bathroom stalls >
  
  Dirty Jobs is such a good show. We need people like you, OP! >
  
  The host is a bullshit artist though >
  
  Why do you think that?
  Edit: People on Reddit are in their own little bubble. They downvote an innocent question. Mike Rowe may be anti-union, but at least he is for free speech and encouraging discussion. >
  
  I was gonna say. But comment below shows it. 
  Dude is anti union fukin actor >
  
  Good, unions are inefficient, unfair to young workers, and counter to those who wish to be recognized for the merits of their hard work. This is to say nothing of their history of corruption and voting fraud.
  There was a time when they were needed, and that time has passed.
  Don't like it? Tough titties. >
  
  I’m part of a union and I disagree >
  
  Disagreement is allowed. >
  
  Thanks for letting me know. I totally didn’t when I disagreed >
  
  I've been doing direct patient care for 13 years and I've dealt with pee, poop, vomit, blood, you name it. I've learned you can touch all this stuff, it's not going to stick to your hands forever, you just wash them off when you're done and clean under your nails. Yes it's gross to touch poop or urine but as soon as you wash your hands it's gone. >
  
  That's exactly what I'm saying.  Unlike the cleaning chemicals which will dissolve your skin and knock you out with fumes, bodily waste is not dangerous as long as you keep it away from your mouth and open wounds.
  I find it interesting that even after the events of 2020, washing one's hands after touching something is still such a foreign concept.