Definitely the dumbest job I've had so far. You do janitorial work for 2-3 hours in the morning and then stand around for the rest of the day. My trainer even told me that's what I would be doing. At other jobs that I've had, they will pretty much tell you to sweep the floor for six hours. This job's version of that is painting and pressure washing. If it's 120F outside or if it's raining, then you're basically screwed. The supervisor doesn't know what else to do with you so just look busy in case the property manager sees you because he doesn't want to deal with it.
For context, the big once-a-year projects like pressure washing the sidewalks or repainting all of the curbs each take maybe 3 hours, assuming you're at a site that actually has decent equipment. That leaves you with - according to my calculations - approximately 1350 hours per year, or like $30,000 worth of labor, that consists of walking around trying to look busy.
There are two things that apartment management companies are notorious for and unfortunately First Pointe commits both of them:
One is that nobody knows how to paint anything correctly. I worked at a paint desk briefly and apartments are the worst customers. No prep, no primer, wrong product, everything's peeling and the supervisors and managers are acting like this is just how paint works. That's why they pay the porter to scrape it all off after a month and repaint it. What? Weren't you just complaining that there's nothing to do?
Two is the whole thing about maintenance supervisors who don't do any work. They pass everything off on the techs and porters so they can go sit on the computer or hang out in their unit. Some of the sites I was at had those types, but not all. Suddenly you're doing work orders and painting interiors and you have TOO much to do! Definitely keep one foot out the door until you can figure out which kind of supervisor you have. They rely on the company continuously hiring naive people that they can exploit, and somehow nobody ever figures that out.
