Ridiculous or not? The “myth” of the unchanged hotel sheets http://bit.ly/iBRuOT
Ever have sand or grit under the sheets? or a stray sock?
My dad told the story of this working out of town, marked the sheet where no one would see it, had the same rooms the next week 5 days later after a long weekend, it had been rented two times meanwhile...sheet had same spot where they put it. They complained and went to another hotel...this was years ago. Of COURSE these housekeepers aren't going to change them all, many of them convicts and ex-cons...why would you think an ex-con would be honest?.
Totally off the topic but...not everyone who goes to jail or who is convicted of a crime is a liar or dishonest. And when they come out and try to get work no one wants to hire them. Some people are just in the wrong place at the right time and get caught up in something they just didn't think thru.Joey Bloggs said:why would you think an ex-con would be honest?
Ever have sand or grit under the sheets? or a stray sock?
My dad told the story of this working out of town, marked the sheet where no one would see it, had the same rooms the next week 5 days later after a long weekend, it had been rented two times meanwhile...sheet had same spot where they put it. They complained and went to another hotel...this was years ago. Of COURSE these housekeepers aren't going to change them all, many of them convicts and ex-cons...why would you think an ex-con would be honest?.
I was trying to remember where I heard the story about marking the sheets.Joey Bloggs said:My dad told the story of this working out of town, marked the sheet where no one would see it, had the same rooms the next week 5 days later after a long weekend, it had been rented two times meanwhile...sheet had same spot where they put it.
trouble is here and probably all over they go in for something minor like shoplifting and get locked up with much more hardened criminals and it leads to them being entangled in all sorts of things when they get out. its a downward spiral.Ever have sand or grit under the sheets? or a stray sock?
My dad told the story of this working out of town, marked the sheet where no one would see it, had the same rooms the next week 5 days later after a long weekend, it had been rented two times meanwhile...sheet had same spot where they put it. They complained and went to another hotel...this was years ago. Of COURSE these housekeepers aren't going to change them all, many of them convicts and ex-cons...why would you think an ex-con would be honest?.Totally off the topic but...not everyone who goes to jail or who is convicted of a crime is a liar or dishonest. And when they come out and try to get work no one wants to hire them. Some people are just in the wrong place at the right time and get caught up in something they just didn't think thru.Joey Bloggs said:why would you think an ex-con would be honest?
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There was an interview done with an older woman in the UK who had been a housekeeper forever. She went thru her routine for the story, showing how she went into the room, opened the windows to air the place out, stripped the beds, made the beds, scrubbed the bathroom, checked the lights, emptied the trash, hoovered, dusted, shut the windows and, stop the timer...was done with the entire room in something like 17 minutes.My godmother has had this problem with housekeepers as they don't always speak english or the same language as the supervisor so it is a genuine mistake plus I have been behind the scenes in a lot of places when I worked in a chain in a particular hotel in Bristol the girls were expected to do 18 rooms each in a day and be done by 3pm so you tell me how well those rooms are cleaned..
exactly! its why when my friend Lisa built her B&B she designed every room herself (worked in the trade since a child for her parents) with the design being easy to clean so that she wasn't struggling with everything every day. Im sure we would all do the same given a clean slate.There was an interview done with an older woman in the UK who had been a housekeeper forever. She went thru her routine for the story, showing how she went into the room, opened the windows to air the place out, stripped the beds, made the beds, scrubbed the bathroom, checked the lights, emptied the trash, hoovered, dusted, shut the windows and, stop the timer...was done with the entire room in something like 17 minutes.My godmother has had this problem with housekeepers as they don't always speak english or the same language as the supervisor so it is a genuine mistake plus I have been behind the scenes in a lot of places when I worked in a chain in a particular hotel in Bristol the girls were expected to do 18 rooms each in a day and be done by 3pm so you tell me how well those rooms are cleaned..
Hotels keep adding stuff to the rooms so I don't know how they expect things to be done by a certain time with the few people they are willing to hire. Rooms went from: bed, dresser w/mirror, TV and a table with wooden chairs plus teeny bathroom to all of that AND a kitchenette and Jacuzzi tub and much bigger bathrooms.
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Everytime I think about adding something to a room, I try to figure out first how I am going to clean IT and clean AROUND it.exactly! its why when my friend Lisa built her B&B she designed every room herself (worked in the trade since a child for her parents) with the design being easy to clean so that she wasn't struggling with everything every day. Im sure we would all do the same given a clean slate.There was an interview done with an older woman in the UK who had been a housekeeper forever. She went thru her routine for the story, showing how she went into the room, opened the windows to air the place out, stripped the beds, made the beds, scrubbed the bathroom, checked the lights, emptied the trash, hoovered, dusted, shut the windows and, stop the timer...was done with the entire room in something like 17 minutes.My godmother has had this problem with housekeepers as they don't always speak english or the same language as the supervisor so it is a genuine mistake plus I have been behind the scenes in a lot of places when I worked in a chain in a particular hotel in Bristol the girls were expected to do 18 rooms each in a day and be done by 3pm so you tell me how well those rooms are cleaned..
Hotels keep adding stuff to the rooms so I don't know how they expect things to be done by a certain time with the few people they are willing to hire. Rooms went from: bed, dresser w/mirror, TV and a table with wooden chairs plus teeny bathroom to all of that AND a kitchenette and Jacuzzi tub and much bigger bathrooms.
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Ever have sand or grit under the sheets? or a stray sock?
My dad told the story of this working out of town, marked the sheet where no one would see it, had the same rooms the next week 5 days later after a long weekend, it had been rented two times meanwhile...sheet had same spot where they put it. They complained and went to another hotel...this was years ago. Of COURSE these housekeepers aren't going to change them all, many of them convicts and ex-cons...why would you think an ex-con would be honest?.Totally off the topic but...not everyone who goes to jail or who is convicted of a crime is a liar or dishonest. And when they come out and try to get work no one wants to hire them. Some people are just in the wrong place at the right time and get caught up in something they just didn't think thru.Joey Bloggs said:why would you think an ex-con would be honest?
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a smudge in character is not a good trait and does not make the housekeeper super trustworthy to begin with.Alibi Ike said:Totally off the topic but...not everyone who goes to jail or who is convicted of a crime is a liar or dishonest. And when they come out and try to get work no one wants to hire them. Some people are just in the wrong place at the right time and get caught up in something they just didn't think thru.Joey Bloggs said:why would you think an ex-con would be honest?
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