Airport Cleaner

When you are next traveling through an airport take a few moments to look at how clean it is. Do you see discarded food and drinks containers everywhere? Not usually.

Most busy airports employ an army of cleaners whose job it is to keep the airport terminals clean and safe for passengers. They perform their much needed work while others are busily heading off to business meetings or vacations. There are countless fast food outlets who appear to have conspired to serve up their food in enough packaging to fill and refill all of the airport bins several times over every single day.

Marie is one of the busy cleaners at Glasgow’s busy international airport. She has worked at Prestwick as well as Aberdeen and Edinburgh airports but she says that she prefers Glasgow as it is so much busier.

A typical day for Marie and those in her team will start at 4 a.m. when she starts the early morning shift, preparing the airport for that days influx of travelers. She says that the biggest problem she encounters is unattended bags. ‘Even though people know about terrorism they can still forget and leave their bags unattended. If I come across an unattended bag I am obliged to report it to airport security. Some people become quite upset when they find their hand luggage being treated like a suspect device.

Marie says that although she doesn’t encounter very many rude or obnoxious passengers it does happen sometimes. 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’.

Along with unattended luggage Marie often finds things that people have left behind. She said: ‘By far the most common things I find these days are mobile phones, but laptops are also common. I’ve even found baby’s pushchairs, toys, medicines and I even once found a false leg.’

A key skill needed by anyone working as an airport cleaner is the ability to deal with all nationalities and people from all walks of life. ‘The ability to remain calm when someone is in a panic because they are late for their flight is definitely a bonus’ said Marie.

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