Today's episode of Hotel Haiz:
- helped clean a room, and of course I found another treasure: an opened, but half-full bag of delicious chips. I ADMIT it's probably neither well-advised nor professional to eat opened food you find on rooms, but....... they really were delicious.
- fluffing the pillows in a way that you can make them stand on the bed according to Protocol is actually REALLY HARD
left: done by professional housekeeper in three seconds
rigth: my 57th try
- I was supposed to meet up in the main housekeeper office at 11, it was like, 3 minutes to 11 and I thought hey. I can take the stairs. there are some stairs right here. they say "do not enter" but that's for guests, right? i've been going in these stairs with the supervisors, it should go juuuuust fiiiine - and when the door clicked shut behind me is when I realized they could not be opened from the inside without a key. HAHA WOOPS
this was me for the next 2,5 minutes until I heard someone on the floor above me open the door:
TRUE FEAR
what's even worse, or even more hilarious - what I was almost late for was a show-around for hotel worker newbies... and at that show-around our guide told us about guests getting stuck in these particular staircases, discovered crying by hotel workers hours later. AHA HA HA HA
- speaking of bad architectural solutions, in the conference area, there is a wall that
can't be washed. It's some kind of fake marble decoration that never got finished, and it gets ruined if you wash it. it gets ruined if you peel a sticker off of it. it's full of coffee stains that are doomed to be there forever.
- so every day I go to the kitchens to get my bag of ~*free food*~ for the evening, which usually consists of:
- either a baguette or a collection of buns + some cheese and ham and stuff to put on it
- a vegetable or salad
- TINY JUICE BOX (the best part)
- fruit
- piece of pastry or cake
aaaaaand all of that every single day is wayy too much, I never manage to eat it all in time, so I usually try to ask for less things if I still have lotsa leftovers. And the kitchenfolk always ask what I want and if I want this or that or ARE YOU SURE YOU DOn'T WANT MORE and so on, and today there were some reallly nice-looking onions on the table so I asked for one...
and one of the cooks was all "what did you say? onion?"
"
yes onion"
"oNION?? on-i-on?? is that what you said?"
"
yes please can i have an onion"
......... I did get my onion but now I feel really weird about it
so yeah that was the hotel part. Sidequest of the day, soon to commence: Acquirement of Another White Shirt