(#10) A CEO Snorting An Illicit Substance
From Redditor /u/dman2316:
Not a skyscraper window washer, but [I] was a janitor who had to wash the windows in a six-story building as part of my job. I used a mix of ladders and rappelling down from the roof with a harness to clean the outside windows.
One day I was washing the outside windows on the executive floor where all the bosses and higher-up employees had their offices. I was done with one window, so I moved to the next, looked in, and saw the CEO of the company snorting something in his office with the door locked and the lights off.
He looked up and saw me in the window and we made uncomfortable eye contact for about 15 seconds. I just pretended I saw nothing and kept washing the windows. I never spoke a word about it to him or anyone in the office, but the last day I worked there he gave me a farewell card with 200 bucks in it and a free solar-powered portable phone charger the company produced and sold.
(#6) People Using An Empty Floor For All Kinds Of Activities
From Redditor /u/zerothed:
Ex-skyscraper window cleaner here, but in Hong Kong.
Skyscrapers in recent times have these "fire floors" built in, like every 15th floor where the whole floor is empty: no walls, no windows, as if someone forgot to build a floor there. It's just pillars. The use for them is if fire is breaking out, it won't spread up past that floor.
Anyway, a lot of people in the building I worked at used that empty floor to do weird things. Some practiced music. Some ate their lunch at that place (it does have a nice view of the sea). Also, some liked to think no one would see them [get intimate] if they did it behind a pillar.
We never paid much attention to anything on that floor... It's just funny when they were going at it good and proper and didn't realize we were silently lowering down from above, having heard them go at it from two floors up. I don't know why people did it. Everyone who works in that building knew we cleaned windows every day. Maybe they just couldn't hold it in any longer...
Anyway, it was always funny seeing them on that floor... with two blokes staring at them, hanging 40 floors off the ground... I always loved seeing their faces turn and twist when they spotted us watching them...
(#7) Tenacious, Flirtatious Women
From Redditor /u/PivotPIVOTPIVOOOT:
My ex was a high-rise window cleaner and he always talked about the crazy things women did. It seems like the glass gives them a sense of security and they do things I don’t think they’d do if that glass wasn’t there: women flashing and pressing their chests against the glass, mooning and pressing their [bottoms] on the glass, writing their phone numbers and pressing it against the glass.
There was one point when we were engaged and he would hold his finger up and point to his ring (he wore an engagement ring, too), [but] it didn’t seem to stop some of the women. In fact, it made some of them try harder, he said.
(#16) Lots Of Falling Needles (Not From Trees)
From Redditor /u/ThinkDontPray:
The one that gets me is the amount of people who throw syringes off of buildings.
[The] 92-story building in the city I work in has them scattered all over the place.
(#4) A Career's Worth Of Stories
From Redditor /u/darkerthanmysoul:
My uncle has been doing this job over 20 years, so I’ve had a few weird stories off him:
- A woman filming [an adult movie].
- A sign on a window asking them to not clean the bathroom window. Obviously not knowing which window [looked into the bathroom], they went about their jobs. The bathroom had skinned rabbits hung up.
- A hoarder whose windows were slowly being hidden by the years of “collections.”
- A famous footballer who was NOT with his wife. Not not long after this the company was asked to sign NDAs.
- What looked like a scene [for police]. My uncle reported it but was later told it was fake [body substances] for a TV show that was filming there.
His favorite?
- A dog breeder (okay, breeder is not the right word, but someone who had two litters), and every four weeks he went back to clean the building and got to see the pups growing up. When he went back and they were roughly 12 weeks there was one pup left. He asked for her, and now he’s got a rottie called Holly.
(#1) A Couple Having Fun Spitting At Each Other
From Redditor /u/FerryPencer:
I saw a man and a woman squirting water out of their mouths at each other. It probably was highballs, not water, but I couldn't see what they had in their glasses.
Anyway, first he'd take a swallow and squirt it all over her, then she did it to him - they took turns, for God's sake. You should've seen them. They were in hysterics the whole time, like it was the funniest thing that ever happened.
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Skyscraper Window Cleaners is an exciting and exhilarating job that provides unparalleled city views. Due to the need to clean windows and the dangers of working at heights, its wages are higher than many other labor jobs. These professional cleaning staff also need to receive guidance and training on the use of high-level cleaning equipment operations and employee safety practices.
Becoming a skyscraper window cleaner is not easy, which requires not only professional skills but also good physical fitness, it is obvious that people with the fear of heights and heart disease are not eligible. The random tool shares 16 bizarre stories that skyscraper window cleaners have got through.
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