Many Companies Employ Cleaners,

but there are exceptions, when cleaners pay the companies!

 strange but true, the shops on Sea Street, a popular jewelry hub in Sri Lanka’s capital city, actually require a fee to let people clean their premises, the above video shows Mavin, a 47-year-old protagonist makes a living by cleaning the bathrooms of jewelry shops on Sea Street, a place he refers to as “the most precious street in Sri Lanka”. The whole street is lined with gold, diamond and jewelry shops, only they don’t pay people like Mavin for cleaning, they actually demand a fee from them, as Mavin explains it, goldsmiths working in these jewelry shops will inevitably waste small amounts of gold, most of it in the form of micro particles. Because they sweat, most this gold “wastage” will stick to their bodies, so when they bathe in the back of the shop, all this gold winds up on the floor. So people pay the shop a fee for the chance to keep what little gold they find when cleaning the bathrooms, “In order to clean a bathroom or toilet on Sea Street, the cleaner must pay the owner,” Mavin told SCMP. “When I pay to clean, I don’t know how much gold I will gather. It is somewhat like a wheel of fortune, it’s unpredictable.” on the day the film was shot, Mavin managed to retrieve an 0.6 gram gold nugget, which he estimated could be sold for 2,500 – 2,700 rupees ($13 – $14) at the time. He said that he sometimes makes less, other times more than that, but he has always turned a profit doing this job, “I have never lost anything, I’ve always made a profit,” Mavin said. “I might spend on rupee and make 10 rupees from that. So I have never failed doing this job.”