Next time you check-in to a hotel, be VERY nice to everyone you speak to - and maybe don't order room service
Whether it's budget or fancy, business or pleasure, there are couple of things we all expect from a stay in a hotel.
A warm welcome and a clean room with freshly laundered sheets and towels are probably the most fundamental. Maybe a chocolate on your pillow if you're lucky.
But if this insight into the secret lives of hotel workers is anything to go by, you probably shouldn't take any of these basics for granted.
Or rather, you should be very mindful of how you come across, if you don't want to be inadvertently wallowing in someone else's less-than-hygienic bedding.
How do we know?
Thanks to some hotel workers, who confessed their secrets via the Whisper app, hotel stays will never be the same.
But it's not all grim and sordid - as the nine confessions below show, hospitality workers reward good behaviour as much as they get their own back on those who cross them.
1. Chilled out
"I work at a hotel and deliberately keep the temperature in the lobby freezing to discourage stupid people from hanging around."
2. When hunger strikes
"I work at a hotel and sometimes work room service.
"We never bring or buy lunch, because we pick off plates before they go."
3. Charity starts at work
"I work at a hotel, and whenever someone comes in who can't afford a room, I give it to them for free."
4. I got the key
"I work at a hotel and when guests annoy me I deactivate their key cards just for the inconvenience."
5. You be nice to me, and I'll be nice to you
"I work at a hotel. If you're cool at check-in I'll hook you up (room upgrade, drinks, free breakfast), but if you're mean, you're getting a room by the lift with no view."
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6. No room at the inn
"Sometimes when people call to make a reservation, I tell them we're booked up because I'm too lazy to make the reservation for them."
7. Till death / my business trip do us part
"It's crazy how many married people on business trips with co-workers have sex together - and their spouses have no idea. It happens a LOT more often than you think."
8. Five-fingered discount
"I work at a hotel as a part-time job. I steal things from the hotel and once my boss came in and said, 'you do that too?'"
9. Don't count on fresh bedding
"I work at a hotel. The blankets only get washed once a year."
And
"A guest woke up with bed bugs, which I reported a week ago..."
(Source: Mirror)
