A DAY IN THE LIFE OF

Prompt start at 9am. Today we are cleaning keyboards for EY in London.

We have a view of the Dome and plenty of space to social distance. We wear our masks anyway. Most of us will put our headphones on in a couple of hours once we are in the flow.

Cleaning Keyboards and Headsets

Usually we clean computers on desks in situ. On this job, the keyboards have been boxed up. Due to Covid, almost everyone has been working from home so computer keyboards and mice and headsets were gathered in if not taken home. As people come back, they need cleaning as no-one wants an old looking keyboard or a headset someone else used. They are plastic and so once cleaned look new, but they do need the crumbs inside properly removing and the keys and cleaning thoroughly.

We will use specialist brushes to remove all crumbs and dirt before using detergents that are safe to use on I.T. equipment to remove all the germs as well, while not damaging the equipment.

EY have a few worn out or broken keyboards and so we are using those to fix the feet on others

The mice have been wound but are a little tangled and need separating before we clean. We will bag them (in recycled plastic bags as eco as we can but balancing that it is better to make it easy to reuse these mice) in tens and seal so they are easy to reissue after they have been cleaned. Normally we would clean in situ on people's desks.