The hotel keys are actually cards that slot into holes on the door. A green light opens the door and a red light means it is locked from the inside. These changed every time a new guest stayed in each room.
Anyway we go up in a service lift and on each floor there is an "office" which contains all the equipment and supplies for that floor. So we go in there and load up our trolleys which contain all our towels, laundry and bath stuff. We wheel out this monster which invariably is lopsided and crashes into the doors with the "do not disturb" signs on. Then we haul out the vacuum cleaner which is just for show - we never have time to use it. The other thing we wheel out is the dirty laundry trolley with bags hanging on it for us to put the used sheets in.
We knock on the door, say "housekeeping", and barge in. Then we strip the bed, re-do every bed, dust, replace things that have been used, clean the bathroom - yuck - playing with other peoples pubic hairs. We use very strong cleaning materials which burns holes in your hands. Then we move on.
Every room is checked by a "housdamen" who has a nicer uniform and tells us things we have "missed". We do 14 rooms a day, which means 30 minutes each room. It is a rush and we really catlick.
At the end of the day we reload the trolley, and clean the "office", then report downstairs, hand in our keys, strip off and go for a cup of tea. Also in the middle of the day there is our hot meal in the hotel canteen for 2 Marks.
We then trek home and collapse.
Photo by Chris 73, Wikimedia
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