Hotel staff don’t always wash the sheets and mechanics use Google to work out what’s wrong with your car…workers share the ‘dirty little secrets’ of their own industries
THE filthy secrets of hotel rooms, aeroplanes and bagged ice have been revealed by industry workers online.
And who knew your mechanic is probably GOOGLING what’s wrong with your car as soon as you leave the garage?
The ‘dirty little secrets’ of various lines of work were revealed on a that got 25,000 comments – with everyone from childcare workers to ice makers spilling the beans on what goes on.
So here’s the pick of the bunch.
Hotel bedding is dirtier than we think
One housekeeper wrote: “In some hotels the housekeepers do something called ‘popping the sheets.’ They wipe off crumbs and straighten the sheets out to make it look like they made it with fresh linen. However, this is a big thing that most good managers look out for and the employee can get fired if they are caught.”
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Another added: “I worked in a hotel and, while we did wash the sheets and pillowcases between guests, the comforters and blankets were a different story.
“They were washed just twice per year — once in the spring and once in the fall.”
Another former hotel employee added: “We were all discouraged from changing the top comforter unless it was visibly soiled as we only had a handful of spares and they were in very poor condition.”
Mechanics Google the problem
One mechanic wrote: “90% of the research that I do to figure out what is wrong with a car is Google and YouTube.
“Become a member of a couple of forums for each of the cars that you own. You will save a lot of money and those people are there to help. And there is a forum for everything. Just Google what type of car you have and add forum to the end of the search.”
Rats can be frozen in bagged ice factories
A former worker in an ice factory explained that massive blocks of ice were made in huge pools: “Laid across the top of these forms was wooden flooring … The problem was the flooring boards weren't a tight fit and anything that happened to run across the floor and fall into the metal form would be frozen solid at the top of the block.
“You had to chip it out before it got made into cubes. Rats, mice, spiders and any other bug you can think of weren't all that unusual to find.
“Now this was a few years ago and maybe the industry has changed its ways but I still prefer to cool cans with bagged ice and not put it into my drink.”
Air stewards don’t even drink the tea
On flight attendant wrote: “Don’t get ice in your drink, don’t drink coffee, tea, or hot water on the plane and don’t touch anything in the lavatory with your bare skin.
“The ice is put in a tray with a scoop and the trays don’t get cleaned very often. Every surface on the plane is touched by hundreds of people daily and not often disinfected.
“We don’t have the opportunity to wash our hands at all during the beverage service.
“Between ice scoops, I’ll probably touch a seat, a Coke can, my tablet to charge someone for a drink, their credit card, a tray table and the car, so basically my hand snatches up all those lovely germs and then goes back into the ice drawer to pick the scoop back up and do it all again.”
Child-care providers don’t tell parents about their baby’s ‘firsts’
This is actually a good thing.
One nursery worker wrote: “Your child may take his first step or say his first real word while at daycare. But we aren’t going to tell you that.”
The Redditors agreed that this was the right thing to do.
One wrote: “This is just kindness, plain and simple. You’re eliminating the potential heartache of parents who have to work versus letting them believe they saw the milestone.”
A parent added: “I had a day care worker tell me she got to see my daughter’s first steps, I told her let’s pretend that didn’t happen. Then my daughter walked in front of me two days later and my wife was out of town that night, it ended up being a week later when my wife shouted from the next room that she took her first steps. She will never know. I can never brag about this to her.”
You might want to limit your pizza toppings
One fast food worker wrote: “If you order multiple toppings on a pizza, you get fewer and fewer for each topping you add.”
Last month we revealed the ten things flight attendants never tell passengers.