Make a census of the shittiest fucking work on Earth and start automating from there. In 10 years the shittiest job will be feeling ennui smoking a long cigarette under a crescent moon on a little Perisian rooftop

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[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah I guess I was thinking more of situations where the lowest-rung employee gets the bathroom-cleaning duties thrust upon them, like restaurants or stingy small offices/shops. That has the potential to be nasty.

But in an institution of any reasonable size I suppose you have a dedicated janitor who is (hopefully) less shit upon. I knew a guy once who was just an independent cleaner, he'd come around every week after hours with his van and vacuum your offices and clean/stock your bathrooms and such (for smallish businesses). He just would jam out to tunes and work solo all evening, it seemed peaceful. He did say he got jumped once, so he's pretty twitchy if he runs into people unexpectedly, but nothing worse than that.

Plus in my area at least all the big office tower janitors are union