The ongoing saga of "The Shower Crew"

Over the past month I have been going out for work early. Before the shower crew can go into the dorms, someone has to prepare all the mop buckets. Lately that person has been me. I work in cell block, which only has two showers to clean because the guys housed back there have certain times they're allowed to shower. I always finish quickly so I;\'ve been filling the buckets to pull my share of the job.

Some nights I have to go clean a second dorm because we're shorthanded at the moment. Tonight was such a night. I went into the second dorm an scrubbed, rinsed, and wiped everything in about 45 minutes. AS I was coming out of the second dorm, the boss for the night told me to go clean the dorm across the hall. I told him that I had already cleaned two and had even come out early. He said it wouldn't hurt me to do another.

"There are sixteen workers on shower crew. Many of them are screwing around in the dorms instead of working. There's no reason I should have to pick up their slack as often as I do," I replied.

"Just get in there. You'll be OK."

I went ahead and cleaned the third dorm. I did it quickly and might have left a few spots behind. I just wanted to gett home early enough to get some good sleep before class tomorrow morning. Even after cleaning three dorms - more than I've ever done in the whole time I've been on this job - I was the first person finished and back to the dorm. How did that happen?!