Cleanup time

We have a personal cleaning lady in our premises in Tampere. She probably has more places to clean than ours, but she seems to spend her time here. She's quite a personality.

I have no knowledge about what rights she has been granted, when she moves around our working site, but she seems to have them a lot. She drinks our coffee in our coffee space, reads our magazines or newspapers on our tables, heats her lunch in our microwave oven, puts her dishes in our dish machine etc. I don't mind that, but it feels weird. In a way, she's one of the 'guys' here, which is extraordinary. Normally cleaning ladies are hardly even treated as persons in this sector.

She's the boss when it comes to cleaning toilets. There's no interrupting her. Unless there is a lunch break. Then the toilet cleaning is put on hold and no-one is allowed to enter before her lunchtime has ended. We need more people like her, I suppose. Self-respective. I usually greet cleaning staff. That's not what everybody does. She is not shy to have a word with our 'prez' either. Indeed, she IS one of us.