Pros
Decent pay compared to similar jobs, including shift differentials Not retail.
Cons
Many fellow staff do not take pandemic precautions seriously. You may find yourself cleaning a COVID-19 or c. diff room without knowing it, putting yourself in danger and not knowing to do a special cleaning. Accomodations for disabilities or different body types are slow or never happen. Heck, the automatic door in the parking garage isn't even maintained. If you're especially short or tall, the equipment here will either break or break you. Frequent staffing and supply issues, including PPE shortages and high turnover rates. Poor scrub availability. If you can, get your own. Just don't expect to be able to expense it. Cramped work spaces and closets with broken chemical dispensers and blocked eye wash stations. Erratic department schedules. A department that is supposedly closed for the night may bring in new patients just as you're trying to clean. Massive workloads for individuals, plus additional room cleaning that often makes it impossible to finish your assigned area. Wet floor signs and equipment are often stolen by other staff, leaving you with nothing but a prayer or leaving rooms unmopped to keep the foolish public from casting themselves upon the wet floors and perishing. Gotta love finding an ICU wet floor sign on a completely different floor. Poor training. They just kind of assume you know what all of these abbreviations mean and leave you to wander the mazelike hospital until you find where you need to go. No time to do required training without cutting your work short or getting very lucky. No hazard pay unless you're part of a union. I have yet to find any way to get in touch with this union.
