Last week I told you about the non-cleaned ballet studio I practice in. Well, this week this problem is not in the agenda anymore. But even that this week the place is being cleaned, the things are getting even more serious.

After last week I spoke with our director and told him that the managers of the cleaning company we work in the ballet studio haven’t sent anyone to wash the floor and sanitize the building, he obviously took some measures and vitiated the contract with them. From this Monday we work with a different cleaning company but what my astonishment was when I got to the ballet studio and found even a bigger mess than it was before the so called professionals started doing the job.

At first I thought it is only in my imagination when I came into the locker room and I sensed the sharp, acute smell of some kind of a cleaning detergent. I can’t really determine what kind of smell it was but it was really intrusive, something like bleach plus borax plus a whole bunch of other stuff. Only that it wasn’t in my head.  The whole place was stinking like the hell itself.

I managed to change my clothes somehow and I entered the ballet studio only to find the cleaner in there. He wasn’t doing anything special, and the floor was so smudged that I can’t really tell what he has been doing. I haven’t seen anything like that in my whole life. After all, these people make their living by cleaning somebody’s homes, corporate buildings, and offices. I can’t imagine who will pay someone who doesn’t do their work properly. I understand that commercial cleaning isn’t easy and you must follow instructions and comply with different requirements and this just is not a job for random people.

As a ballet dancer I can’t put up with the studio’s dirty floor. I thought that last week we put an end of the careless cleaners work here, but as I see now, it’s nothing like any of the things I expected. Maybe I will talk again with our director, because hiring the wrong clearing companies won’t provide the clean, safe and healthy environment we need.