'"Have fun!" I said, as I clocked out': Hotel housekeeper 'sorts' linens exactly how boss directs them to

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    Font - Sort the laundry? You got it, boss! м ос I am a hotel housekeeper. It was a pretty busy day and almost all of the rooms had to be stripped. We have two carts for dirty laundry. (Well... except for the one in the top floor, and the one used to catch what we toss down the laundry chute. But that's unimportant.)
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    Font - What is important is that my boss is pretty insistent on sorting the laundry before it goes to get put through the cleaning process. Sorting the laundry entails separating the towels and... everything that's not towels into the two "dirty" baskets.
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    Font - Now, as I mentioned, it was pretty busy and there was LOTS of laundry. But I still had to sort them. Initially, I tried taking the towels out and swapping them all into one basket while putting everything else into the other. After awhile, I realized that this method would probably take hours at best. I got the idea to take everything out, sort them into two piles, then put them back in. So I did.
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    Font - The pile of towels was medium- sized at best. The pile of everything not towels, however, was nearly up to the ceiling. I put them back in to their respective baskets and found that the stack of not-towels was in fact taller than me, and I'm over six feet tall! About this time, the manager walks in and says, verbatim, "What the f did you do?" "Exactly what you told me to do."
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    Font - My manager is barely five feet tall and couldn't hope to reach the top of the stack. The person who comes in when I leave is also very short. Speaking of which, it's my time to go. "Have fun!" I said, as I clocked out. As I walked out, I heard another "What the f?" this time from the poor employee who came in and saw my handiwork. Apparently, she had to stand on a chair to reach the top, which would not have happened if I wasn't told to sort it. The best part was that I couldn't be blamed
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    Font - But it doesn't stop there: she demanded that I call my 6'5" friend and coworker to help...too bad he specifically requested that day and the next few after that to go on vacation with his girlfriend. Talk about bad timing. Since then, sorting the laundry has been optional for housekeepers. Edit: Omg with the puns I love it
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    Gesture - cabird78 This story's a perfect example of "taking your job to new heights"!
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    Font - CoderJoe1 +3. Good short story. Glad it got sorted out.
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    Font - OblongAndKneeless +2. Why do you have to teach the top of the pile? If you take from the side, the top will come down eventually. It's just linen. It won't kill you.
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    Smile - fatnissjuverdeen Your manager sounds like a "load" of fun. Nice work!!
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    Gesture - prankerjoker +4. Maybe it's time for the boss to throw in the towel and quit.
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    Font - HMS_Slartibartfast +2. When the boss is giving blanket instructions, they really need to know when to just throw the towel in!
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    Font - Able-Sheepherder-154 I guess everyone was sheet out of luck!
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    Font - This sounds like a prime opportunity to buy a third laundry bin. Nicely done, OP! 58 Reply Share Fr3nchTOastCrunch OP. They still haven't
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    Font - StormBeyond Time +2. Like I needed another reason to be glad my housekeeping jobs never included hotels. Good on you and your fellow employees for going "nope".
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    Font - bafomdad oh man, my last job was laundry stuff at a hotel inn if I saw that pile while coming into work one morning I'd just quit on the spot Imao

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