Housekeeping!!
So now i have started my second week duties – await the blog. I thought I would share my first week at The Backpack; it was in housekeeping with Tina and her Team in Housekeeping. It’s gonna make sure I know what a room looks like when it is ready and where the rooms are as basics…Where better to start.
8am start. I am stripping beds first, standard latax gloves on and everything. All going into a bag before reporting back for the next room.
I’ll tell you this now, there is no major difference in stripping. On the other hand making bed, you think you know but you don’t. it is not just the panache. Making sure the exact corner goes on the corner of the bed and two different ways of putting a duvet in a cover. The right pillows in the right cases.
So the details are that when remaking the beds, the sheets have to be tucked in tight, luckily they have fitted sheets so not that hard. The duvet is tucked under the mattress at the end, so that there is only a little on the side. Even after 4 days of doing it, I still couldn’t get it quite right. All pillows facing the same way. Everything has to be smooth, bed runner, pillows everything. Perfect!
No one warned me about how hot it gets making and stripping beds!! I was roasting by the end of each day. I was just given a set of bedding and sent to a room once I had been shown. Luckily someone comes around to do bins and a wipe around so I hope that if I was not up to scratch they corrected it a little… Here’s hoping everything was okay…I reckon they had to correct the folding in of the duvet every time,
If you are not changing the bedding, when the laundry arrives that needs to be sorted out. Ironing the coloured pillow cases that go on some of the beds. Lots of folding of pillow cases and sheets everything has its place. Tina even showed me how to fold a valise or fitted sheet – could I do it again – could I hell…
There is something therapeutic about changing sheets. I know, I know sounds crazy! Just is… A few hours soon whips by and I am relieved of duties and sent on my way… It does depend on the check outs though – having to knock on people to tell them we need the room is not ideal when there are so few check outs that you are just waiting on them to change the room, but hey every cloud…
Don’t think too much about it, easy to do and relaxed atmosphere. Soon learn where the rooms are, and which room has what sort of beds in it. It was the perfect first week to get settled into The Backpack and my duties. Here’s to the second week and further weeks of different departments.
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