janitor
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Bob Trebilcock relates that, near the peak of the tech bubble, the janitor at his church bragged about his day-trading profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Since its international release, the Galashiels janitor said hundreds of sufferers and supporters from around the world have contacted him.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
“I’m crying,” said Nidia Perez, a grandmother and school janitor who caught the game in a plaza in Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
I used to be a janitor, and I used to move furniture, so podcasting and stand-up is not so bad when you talk about having a job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
The principal and assistant principal and janitor and teachers all helped.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
It would mean more than 60,000 essential district workers — teachers, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers — would walk off the job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
In one videotaped speech during a high school student government campaign, he complains of being told to pick up his trash, saying that should be the work of paid janitors.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
Today I estimate that more than 30,000 Microsoft employees, from secretaries to janitors, have become millionaires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Marty comes of age in the Hill Valley of 1985, where vandals have shellacked the high school with so much graffiti that the janitors seem to have given up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
School janitors take too much bossing all week to listen to an extra helping on weekends.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
