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Imagine: You come home after working an 8 hour day. Sounds normal right? But what if that 8 hour day was spent poking around behind people's toilets and under their leaky bathroom abd kitchen sinks. Taking apart broken garbage disposals, full of old, disgusting food. And on top if, these tenants requested a work order and needed help, but they didn't even have the common courtesy to clean off their toilet or make enough space under their leaky sink for you to even poke your head under with a flashlight. Imagine part of your day consists of fixing a leaky shower that's full of disgusting mold and mildew because the tenant doesn't bother to do a basic cleaning on their tub once in a while. Imagine that a tenant moves out of their apartment and complains that they didn't get all their deposit back and don't understand why. Imagine that you're the maintenance man and you go into that empty apartment and begin to re-paint the walls and they continually have reappearing brown streaks and drips, because the past tenant smoked indoors. Imagine you have to spend two full days washing the walls down by hand, with a special nicotine residue remover. Then you can begin to re-paint all over again. Imagine you just came home, after your long day...sat down for the first time, maybe got something to eat for the first time- all day. And you hear a knock on your door..."Are you home??? I need help! My garbage disposal is backed up!" The maintenance man dutifully replies and goes to her apt. to take a look and proceeds to first clean it out. What does he find? Shrimp shells and chicken bones. "Well I didn't know I couldn't put those down there?!" ...Says the lady. All these things have really happened, try to take another persons perspective once in a while. And do your maintenance man a favor...and quite frankly, what he deserves and what you SHOULD do...CLEAN BEFORE HE HAS TO ENTER YOUR APARTMENT. Yuck.