Hello University of Cincinnati, and Graybach and subcontractors.

So… on the way out of the building… the Environmental Health Building, no less…I smelled some volatile organic solvents, and opening the door to the hallway there is some young kid scrubbing some tar off the floor on the ground floor level, with some mixture of VOC that nearly gagged me… he had no respirator or mask or ventilation fan going.

… i did go to the directors office and mention that if this was a UC employee we should be ashamed of ourselves, becuase this kid is melting his brain with what i suspect is a mixture of toluene and xylene and xylol and maybe hexane or some terpenes or other stuff … when queried, he is not a UC employee, but works for a subcontracted cleaning place subcontracted again from Graybach which is subcontracted from UC, which obviosly doesnt give a crap…
the fumes could be smelled up the stairwell and while they probably didn’t do anything to me, but make me aware of the unpleasant odor, and a little nauseated…. this kid likely does this for hours and days on end…. that can’t be good, and he may not know he has been put in a position that might not be good for his health.

i really can’t figure out why things like this bother me…. i know so well there is injustice, and inequality… but it still gripes me… especially when it happens in an institution that just built a 65 million dollar Public Health building about 200 years from this hall. haha… what inconsistencies.

I might add that the lawn service that UC subcontracts out to doesn’t sprays unknown stuff on the lawns in from of Environmental Health and the Public Health building… ha ha… more of the same.