How Does an Ironing Service Worker Spend a Workday?
The Workday An ironing service worker begins her morning by balancing the books from the previous night’s returns. She may total her receipts and compile a deposit of cash and checks into an envelope for the bank. She will then check the schedule and determine her route for the garment pick-ups for the day. She may have several different regular clients, as well as new clients, and she is expected to go to the clients’ locations and pick up the ironing that needs to be done. An ironing service worker may expect to politely interact with her customers as she takes in the garments, using a separate clean laundry bag for each client’s garments. She may make her bank deposit while she is out. She will then take all the ironing jobs back to her home office or laundry service location, where the jobs are placed in a queue behind the work previously waiting from the day before. The efficient worker will begin with the job that is first in the queue, or the most difficult or time-consuming (or
