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Keywords: Bedmaker, Bin, Janitor, Durham, Tidy
A College employee who does domestic work in the residential rooms of a College, including cleaning the room, changing the sheets, but not making the bed.
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A bedder's job is to clean communal facilities and rooms. If you do not want to be disturbed leave your bin outside.
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College employee who empties your bin, cleans your room and changes your sheets - but doesn't actually make your bed on a daily basis.
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short for a bedmaker (though paradoxically they do no make students' beds). Students are responsible for keeping their rooms tidy, but the College employs bedmakers to clean rooms and hallways
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The lovely people that clean your room, and empty your bins each day. Once upon a time they used to make the beds (and some still do) - hence the name
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The term "bedder" is short for "bedmaker" and is a housekeeper in a college of the University of Cambridge and the University of Durham. The equivalent at the University of Oxford is known as a "scout". There is no equivalent at the majority of other universities, although the work of the "bedder" may in some cases be assumed by domestic staff under a variety of designations including "cleaner" or "janitor".
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