How supportive is your school janitor?
 

how supportive is your schools janitor? i keep getting little tid bits from the janitors like when do you get home and one day you will just walk in here with out one of us here or even notified.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Well our school has lots of janitors because of its size. Some of them are supportive, while others hate us because we are always having them unlock rooms we need access too. The janitors that support us are interested in the robot, and as long as we give them a little food, they are happy. The few janitors that dont like us just stay away, and that it all the best for us (most of the time)

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Our janitors have been great to us for the most part. Like recently, we were walkin through the school saturday around 6:30 PM and the entire school was pitch black and we were trying to get into the cafeteria to let our robot run around and such and a janitor saw us. We figured "aw man we're busted" but he was like "hey, you need the lights on or some tables moved?" It was very cool of him.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Our janitorial staff is fantastic! While we are expected to clean up after ourselves in the shop (which seems like the only polite way to do things, you make the mess, obviously you clean it up!) but they are always willing to help us out by opening doors and being there to help out with other things. Let's hear it for the janitors!

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Cyber Blue has been incredibly lucky to have so many great janitors. We get along with them great and have have a good relationship with them. They have always been very supportive of us and help us out occasionaly if we ask a favor. A lot of times they come down to our room just to see how things are going and talk to us.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Our school janitors are wonderful. They are friendly, and always willing to help out.

But the number one reason why I like our school janitors is this: they have donated a heated space for our robotics team to work every build season for the past 3 years!! They gave up part of their garage, where they store their machinery and other things, for our use, out of the goodness of their hearts.

If it werent for our school's custodial staff, we would be in the unheated attic of the same garage, that only has one electrical outlet, and is home to the largest dead population of flies (and living population of spiders). I think that flies from around the world migrate there, for the purpose of falling down dead, and grossing me out.:eek:

Thanks goodness for our wonderful custodial staff!

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

FIRST is all about working with others. Our custodians support us 100%, and they ask us to respect their work, as they respect ours. They also know that if they need something fixed, or lock their keys in a classroom, having us around is useful to them. Of course, they can be a bit rough in the evening when we are working in a computer room they are trying to clean, and they aren't used to having anyone around - who wouldn't be? Respect, give it, and you will get it. Now our security people, well, let's not go there.....

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

they don't like us very much. because we are usually there late and we make some big messes, which we clean up but every time they peek into the class room we are making some sort of mess. or we run out of rolls of paper towels or room in the trash cans.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

lol that sounds like where we DO work... we've been given the old woodshop (which noone ever uses anymore). It's the coldest, dustiest corner of the universe (or at least the school). It's cool that your janitors gave you guys a nice place to work.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Some wisdom I learned long ago-

anything in a school is somehow reliant on the janitors so you always want to maintain a good relationship with them

as a result- our guys are good friends of the team and they are willing to do just about anything for us.

When we hold Brunswick Eruption and take over the school we ask a lot from them. But we make sure thay always get shirts or giveaways and the team takes great pains to clean up after the event and leave the gym and food areas spotless.

We've been complimented by the janitorial staff that our events are the easiest school events to work with. Since we want to keep having them with the blessing of all the guys with the keys, we intend to keep it that way.

WC :cool:

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Our janitors are nice and supportive of our team. They must have unlocked the doors / turned on the power 20 times this season already. We clean up all our messes and give them free pizza if we have extra, its always nice to be nice.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Our janitors are FANTASTIC. These guys even come back to the school to lock up so that we can stay later. We do our best to keep their workload down, empty trash, sweep, make sure windows doors and lights are taken care of. They are also invited to share our food.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

We have our own site with keys to come and go as we please but our new "baby sister" team XQ Robotix has had an incident where they were locked out of school because the janitor failed to show up to let them in.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

The maintenance at my school is EXTREMELY supportive, one of them especially is very enthusiastic about our team, and last year even tought some members how to weld.

Re: How supportive is your school janitor?
 

Our team's high school janitors are very supportive. However we only normally see a handful of them because they each have their own section of the school.

The few we see usually stop in the shop and say hi most every night. They usually chat and talk with us too.

When their shift is up and it is time to go home they either tell our team leader to either close up shop or set the security... LATE NIGHTS.... :ahh: