{"id":70208,"date":"2022-09-08T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-worker-cleaned-hundreds-of-toilets-a-day-at-burning-man\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T21:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T21:37:59","slug":"this-worker-cleaned-hundreds-of-toilets-a-day-at-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-worker-cleaned-hundreds-of-toilets-a-day-at-burning-man\/","title":{"rendered":"This worker cleaned hundreds of toilets a day at Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
Burning Man was reignited over the past week for the first time since 2019, and it lived up to its reputation of being the most unique and experimental event one can possibly attend in the middle of the Nevada desert. But the festival takes a lot of intensive behind-the-scenes labor to run smoothly, much of which isn’t for the faint of heart. That’s where people like Zach come in. <\/p>\n
Zach, who has requested to go by his first name only for fear of retaliation from his employer, made his way to the Black Rock Desert from his home in Texas to spend each day of the festival cleaning Burning Man’s hundreds of portable toilets. He’s worked as a field development specialist for two years doing this type of work, but this was his first time tackling the playa.<\/p>\n
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Zach gained some online recognition for the work he did at the event after posting on Reddit, inviting members of the forum to \u201cask him anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe had a really good crew in the trenches. Everyone was there to work and willing to help each other out. I can’t speak to previous burns, but I can speak to other events I’ve serviced, and this was by far the best team I’d been a part of,\u201d Zach commented in the thread. <\/p>\n
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He said work for him and his team went from 5 am to 9 pm every day, with several breaks in between. Cleaning out the toilets involved suctioning out trash and waste and sanitizing the units using degreaser, descaling solution and blue chemical tablets before hosing them all down. <\/p>\n
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\u201cYou’re looking at each team cleaning probably anywhere from 200 to 300 toilets a day,\u201d Zach told SFGATE. <\/p>\n
The toilets weren’t the only thing Zach had to clean up over the course of the event \u2014 at one point, he had to hose off a woman who fell into a portable toilet’s holding tank.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was wearing knee-high boots with 5-inch heels on them and squatting over the bowl instead of sitting on it. I guess she lost her balance and just stepped her foot straight into the bowl, and that s\u2014t was filled up to the top,\u201d Zach said. <\/p>\n