I would like to say thank you to the many people who do the behind-the-scenes work that is essential but that is generally taken for granted. There are many people who work in jobs that fit this description, but I’m thinking about the people who clean offices and other businesses. I work in a building that has several floors. Each day at 6:00 p.m. when most employees have left for the day, the cleaning crew arrives, works several hours, and returns to their homes late at night. And each morning we employees return to clean work spaces and restrooms and emptied wastebaskets. It’s just expected our office will be clean and orderly when we arrive to work each day, and it’s easy to forget the people who make it that way. I’m sure those workers do not earn very much money and I’m sure for some of them it is their second or third job as they try to provide for their families and themselves.
So to those workers I want to say thank you for what you do that makes my life nicer. I appreciate you.