All of these workers merit a full-grown , honkin ' ascent and unlimited holiday prison term .
People who work in hotels seea lot. With guests constantly checking in and out, the staff are left to deal with whatever bizarre messes their visitors decide to leave behind.
1.“An entire pizza — and not a single slice of it in the box. The first red flag was the slice of pizza smeared all over the TV. Then we saw two slices side by side on the floor like they’d worn them as slippers and dragged their feet across the floor. Then, we found one slice in the dresser, one in the nightstand, one in the sheets, and one in the bathroom sink. As I was doing the final check after cleaning the room, it still smelled like pizza. I flicked the lamp on to look for the final slice. I finally found it — inside the lamp shade. This individual had smeared the last slice on the inside of the shade.”
— u / aNathan113
2.“A bear. A lot had to happen for this to occur. A guest unloaded his motorcycle from his truck and left the ramp down. This was right outside a first-floor room with a balcony. The guest who was staying in that room had ordered room service, left it uncovered, left the balcony door open, and went to the pool. The guest returned to their room and promptly went down to reception to report a bear in their room. Puzzled, we quietly approached the room and slowly opened the door. Lo and behold, there was a bear eating room service and making a mess. We called Parks Canada to deal with it.”
3.“Nothing. Literally nothing. I walked into a room after housekeeping called the desk. The room was empty. The guest had stolen the bed, mattress, couch, TV, iron, everything, through the window of a second-floor hotel room during the night. They were never caught. The surveillance cameras didn’t cover the back corner of the building, and the guest had used cash and a stolen credit card.”
— technocratic - nebula
4.“I worked at a hotel this past summer in suburban Chicago. One of the first weeks I worked happened to be when a big bondage convention was happening at the hotel. People walked around in costumes and had toys just out in the open. We actually had to give every guest not a part of the convention a disclaimer that the bondage convention was going on (easily one of the weirdest conversations I’ve ever had). Needless to say there, housekeeping found some weird shit. The lost and found room had anything from ropes, vibrators, various drug paraphernalia, to hundreds of dollars in cash. The people at the convention were very nice and not horribly picky, but still, it’s not a demographic you hear from very often.”
5.“Three guys in one room left ALL their windows open and all the lights on overnight in the summer. I have never seen so many different bugs flying around a room — it was terrifying. We ran in spraying bug killer like our lives depended on it, then ran out and left the room for an hour. We came back to a floor that was almost black with dead bugs. I can still hear the crunching.”
— u / scarlett - burnet bloodwort
6.“I used to work in the laundry, and one day my housekeeper friend came and got me to look in a room. Apparently, someone had a lime Jell-O bath in the jacuzzi tub. They had to get it professionally cleaned and taken apart because the Jell-O was inside the jets.”
7.“My dad works for a hotel and told me they had an older couple complain about hearing movement in their room at night. They didn’t know what to say and assumed they were just hearing things, but later they found clothes and shoes in the cupboard under the sink. Apparently, a person was staying in the cupboard and would go use the bathroom when he thought the guests were asleep.”
— uranium / dalecookie
8.“It was a family gathering and a kid’s birthday party. The adults were getting shit-faced while the kids were in the presidential suite raising hell. They decided to have a fully-stocked ice cream bar and allowed the kids to do what they wanted. There were M&M’s crushed into the carpet, chocolate footprints on the walls, whipped cream fucking everywhere, and fruit punch spilled on the bed. We had to charge them about $7,000 in damages, which they took to court because they thought the cleanup would be included.”
9.“I was a room inspector and discovered a guest had decided to marinate a whole pig in their tub with gallons of wine, pineapples, and garlic.”
— uranium / Darkmoon1767
10.“This was discovered during their stay, but these people went to the beach and didn’t put a ‘do not disturb’ sign on their door. I’m in the office, and housekeeping calls for my manager. I put her on, and the manager goes up to the room. It turns out that the housekeeping staff was cleaning and started hearing chirping noises from under the bed. They investigate and find a box with a dozen or so baby chickens. Apparently, this family bought them from a local and was going to take them back to their farm after the trip. The problem is we don’t allow animals of any sort unless they’re service dogs, which these clearly were not, so one of the family members left a few days early to take them back home because they didn’t want to give them away. We haven’t really had ‘bad’ findings in rooms since I started working there. Just weird ones.”
11.“Someone had pooped on a pillow and left a note saying ‘All the best with that.’ The hotel fined the dude £450.”
— uranium / oeco123
12.“When my mum worked as a cleaner in a hotel, she found a whole fried egg under the bed sheets.”
13.“I was working at a hotel on the coast. There was an old couple who rented the suite for the whole week. They were very polite. After the first night, the cleaning lady went inside to clean up the room and she found a turd in the bathtub. We were a bit shocked by this and thought this poor old guy had mistaken the bathtub for the toilet. I discreetly told the couple, and they felt really sorry; they apologized and said that it would not happen again. The next day, the same thing happened. We confronted them again this time, and the same reaction was given. This happened the whole week. You couldn’t imagine the smell in the room.”
— Berntsa
14.“Our hotel allowed dogs and even had a whole floor reserved for people traveling with pets. This family came, refused housekeeping service for a few days, then checked out. I got a call from housekeeping asking me to document something, so I went up to the room. The family had hidden a dog in their room. They didn’t want to take it out of the room, so they had it climb on top of the AC unit and poop into the vents. The entire unit was full of dog poop. They also had the dog pee in the space between the AC unit and the bed. They had slept in that room for three nights — two adults, three children, and I’m guessing a large, healthy dog.”
15.“I was working on autopilot, going through the rooms, removing dirty towels and bedding. I picked up a towel out of the bath without thinking about it, and my colleague shouted at me to stop and look at the towel. It was absolutely caked in shit. So was the toilet.”
— otmshank11
16.“Baby gator in the bathtub.”
17.“Fucking broccoli. Everywhere. In the bed, the tub, the toilet, the drawers. It was even ground into the carpet. No clue why.”
— atomic number 92 / motherofxmen
18.“A bachelorette party came through, and after they left, the next night we had a new rule: a $400 glitter fee. You couldn’t see the floor, there was so much glitter. It’s been a few years, and you can probably still find glitter throughout the hotel’s carpet.”
19.“They pissed the bed. I don’t mean a little wet spot, I mean the entire bed was soaking wet. I honestly don’t know how it was possible to get this bed as wet as it was in a single night. But we couldn’t charge them because of our manager. It was absolutely disgusting. We had to wait a few days for it to dry before moving it. We threw the bed away because it was too rank.”
— Bobbob253
20.“I worked at an extended stay hotel one time. A woman who was a regular stayed there, and we always had to have extra towels for her because she used them as toilet paper. When she ran out, she’d set the feces-covered towels in a bag outside her room for us to pick up. To this day, it’s made me question humanity.”
21.“I worked in maintenance in a hotel for a while. The weirdest thing I found was a loaded pistol hidden in the light fixture. The repair order stated, ‘Something is in the glass dome over the light. Customer complains of shadow.’ I asked my boss what to do with it, and he gave me a list of the last 10 people to use that room and told me to take the gun and that list to the police department.”
— Pussinsloots
22.“Someone pooped in the nightstand. It had been there long enough to dry out, so it took nearly an hour to scrub it clean. Another room had bloody menstrual pads stuck all over the walls at random.”
23.“We had a guy on the ‘do not rent’ list because he would shit in the bed, roll around in it, then drag the crap covered blankets through the room. He would finally deposit all of the blankets and comforters in the bathtub and, as a courtesy, generously soak them with pee. He had made it in a few times before I encountered him on a busy Saturday night. He asked for a room with 10 people in line behind him. I said I couldn’t rent him a room, and he persisted, wanting to know why. I finally lost it because he wouldn’t take no for an answer. ‘You can’t stay here because you shit the bed and roll around in it.’ He got the biggest grin on his face and gingerly walked out amidst the disgusted looks from people behind him in line. I feel like I participated in his fetish.”
— jesuspants
24.“Dirty diapers and birthday cake were smashed into the walls. People get really shitty when you have to kick them out for trying to have a party.”
25.“I was in housekeeping for a while and a coworker of mine found poop in a condom tied to the microwave door.”
— uranium / GaborDienes
26.“I worked at an upscale ski resort. One family let their toilet-training kid pee behind the toilet and under the sink throughout their visit, then put our white towels on top of it to ‘help clean up the mess.’ The whole place smelled like a freakin' rhino enclosure. Ruined the towels.”
27.And: “We had a man stay in one of our rooms for a week. He refused maid service and had a ‘do not disturb’ sign on his door. Upon checkout, he told the front desk that the toilet had been broken all week. When we went to look at it, we saw he had used it ALL WEEK! It was full to the top with piss and shit. I took lunch and clocked out.”
— Hawk_84
Note : Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity .
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