microfiber cleaning IS super ecological, it's true, as long as you ignore microplastics

[cimorene]

The board of directors at work are going to buy some Enjo mops, dust mops, and cleaning cloths that are mostly for my use, and they are not re-hiring the monthly professional cleaning service as a result, "Because this will make cleaning so much easier that Cim can do it no problem!" I simultaneously HATE this from a supporting-local-tradespeople and a that's-not-really-the-job-I-signed-up-for perspective and... kinda am excited to get them. I do, actually, already have to clean in general, I just wasn't in charge of like, deep cleaning everything in the bathroom, or thoroughly mopping the whole floor with lifting the chairs up and getting in all the corners. But even though I'm the world's least tidy person, I'm kinda a big fan of using microfiber and melamine sponges (aka Magic Eraser) to do it with because it's a bit magical to see, and Enjo is some kind of extra SUPER microfiber that works even faster with cold water than regular microfiber works with hot water. And they're also going to buy an expensive bagless cordless vacuum and... I'm kinda excited about that too. I mean, on the minus side, cleaning, but on the plus side, a new high-tech toy to play with!

Doing the research into them is making me, in my private capacity, super jealous of the professional me that is soon going to have access to a vacuum costing like, oh, somewhere between ten and thirty times as much as any vaccuum I've ever used before, because life with two long-haired angora-mix house bunnies is life that is FULL of dust and dustbunnies and a small, light, highly effective bagless cordless vacuum with HEPA filters would be extremely useful around the house. Whereas my workplace is just, you know, stone and shitty wooden laminate floors that people walk on after hiking around outside all winter, tracking in gravel and dirty snow and road dust.

Comments

[viggorlijah]

It’s not something you can borrow on weekends as a trade for taking on the extra cleaning?

[laurenthemself]

I was going to say this, the temptation to borrow it would be so big for me, and the part about doing it in trade for the extra cleaning is even better than my 'yoink it quietly and bring it back'.

[cimorene]

No, that idea wouldn't fly at all in Finland. The cultural notions around rules and honesty just don't accommodate it.

[cimorene]

Unfortunately, that just wouldn't work in Finland! The idea that the work is extra would probably not go over anyway, because cleaning tasks were already part of my job, and Finnish cultural notions of rules and honesty would preclude employees borrowing employer equipment for personal uses like that.