I lasted a bit over one year as a custodian at an elementary school before I gave up and quit. The head custodian was unbelievably lazy and pawned off as much work as he could on everyone else, and lied constantly. But to be honest, he wasn't nearly as bad as the principle. Narcissistic, arrogant, manipulative, name any negative personality trait, she had it. Lied to me, belittled me, and never appreciated a damn thing I did. Don't even get me started on how hypocritical she was. I couldn't wear a tanktop after all of the kids are gone because it's against the rules but every october she would bring alcohol ONTO THE SCHOOL PROPERTY DURING SCHOOL HOURS to give to the teachers. The last straw was having to clean her fucking hoarding room. It's this room that's just full of shit like broken computers, splintery wood, nails, tons of yarn, and stacks of cardboard that literally go the ceiling (This was a room that she called the “maker space”, the kids went in there to SUPPOSEDLY build stuff, if you can call hammering nails into boards and leaving them exposed on the floor for kids to step on building stuff). Me and the other custodians cleaned up the room as best we could with the assistant principle (who was actually a great, stand up guy fyi) because she wasn't even fucking at the school the day we did it. When she got there the next day she had the nerve to tell me that we never washed the floor, because there were stains that couldn't be mopped out, and the entire floor would have needed to be stripped. Despite this I held my tongue for the time being and spent half an hour stacking more fucking splintery wood that was outside and bringing it inside to a closet, and mopped the floor again because apparently it was never mopped, surprise surprise the same damn stains never came out. I knew she would just yell at me if she came back in and saw them still there, so I just went and told her that I mopped it again but the stains still didn't come out, and of course she still doesnt listen and I tell her that the floor would need to be stripped for them to get out, and she started scolding me for “arguing with her.” I shouted at her that I quit, and walked out. Fuck her. Believe it or not I'm the third or fourth custodian to quit within 2 years at this hellhole of a school. Thankfully I'm only 21 and still live with my parents, so I'm not completely screwed now at the very least.
Sorry if this was pretty rambly and all over the place, I'm stressed, and I just needed to vent.