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To make sure that the job gets done, the
Building Service Workers have been divided
into three shifts. Neil and Stephen on days,
Gary and Jack on early evenings and Bob on the
late, late shift, 11:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.

"He doesn't have time to watch Johnny Carson,"
says McCoy.

On top of these "regular duties", each service
worker is charged with cleaning up outside the
campus, lawn watering, driveway salting, sanding,
shoveling and sweeping of sidewalks and clearing
plugyed drains.

To describe the harried life of the BSW, McCoy
points to the example of when the anthropology
department brought in a museum display to

the campus.

Packed in 14 massive wooden cases, the display

of Native Indian foods took over one and a half
hours to just unload fromthe truck.

This meant that none of the other duties could be
done during that time," McCoy says. "No light-
bulbs could be changed, no washrooms cleaned
and no floors swept."

But there's more.

If the campus electrician needs help, he calls on
the BSW's. If an instructor locks his keys in an
office, often a BSW will be called to open the
door. And if a classroom needs tables set in a
particular fashion, again it is the BSW's work.

In fact, when the permanent campus first opened
its doors in 1983, McCoy requested 16 people be
put on staff.

 

 

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