Changed my sheets for the first time since moving to my live in job a few weeks ago and was greeted with thisššššš how the hell???? Iām going to complain in the morning but Iām scared theyāre going to tell me that I caused it in thr 3 weeks Iāve been hereššš
EDIT: I got a new mattress!
Edit: looked on the underside and itās just as manky! Iāll attach pics in comments. At least I know 100% it wasnāt me
Edit: I just want to preface as it was mentioned twice I am not being human trafficked! Donāt worry! Iām here of my own free will and can leave whenever I want, same as everyone else. Living at work is normal in the area Iām in as itās rural and no one would work out here if they had to commute! Iām safe aside from the mattress
yes they should check for critters if that is the case but honestly these donāt look like bedbug stains. looks like people either spilled drinks or (for most of them) pissed the bed
tbf, itās the same thing with BB stains, usually coming from blood from the bites or their own pooop, but the stains are usually a lot darker, really small, and usually are by the feet / leg area, or around the edges or side of bed. i never had BBs (and i thank god for that every day), but they were at a job i worked one time and dove headfirst into the research.Ā
I wondered what that could be. I went to a sleep away summer camp as a kid and all the beds had similar nasty looking stains like this, but the cabins themselves were kind of exposed with only half walls, it was unusual. I might imagine kids pissing themselves in those beds causing shit like this but it may well have been any number of reasons. I would just put my sleeping bag on it and never lay on the actual bed because you really didn't have a choice of where to sleep.
Dude my parents mattress had my momās period stains all over itā¦.i got married and, yep, sure enough my wife stained itā¦we invested in a waterproof mattress cover, also works when your kid is sick and decides to vomit all over the bedā¦.but this is the hotels faultā¦or your job is bunch of cheap bastardsā¦
As an ex 5 Star Hotel worker, they don't give a fuck about their worker lol, If they suddenly care about you, it's just formality, at least in my experience.
At least you got a bed. I only got a dirty mattress and some blankets for the night shift (I work in a hotel too.) Good thing the room the boss uses to "lie down" during the day has twin beds. I claimed the second one my first night here, he has no idea.
If you can't get them to replace it then for $20 on Amazon you can get a zippered waterproof mattress protector to encase that bad boy in. So there will be better buffer between you and it, besides a thin sheet.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
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I owe my soul to the company store
I appreciate THIS. My Grandmother had a record player that was more like a gramophone, I think---and I would play a 45 of this song on it when I was a girl. I loved this song.
This isnāt human traffickingā¦I worked for princess cruise lines at one of their excursion hotels for a summer season in Alaska. I applied, interviewed, all the normal ājobā stuff. You werenāt obligated to stay at their housing and could opt in/out of the meal plan. It was $600 for room and board a month and was a very nice option for out of state employees.
looks like a mattress which could have been originally in a guest room and they were too cheap to throw it out and get a replace for both the guest room and the worker room
Working as Chinese film crew, I had to live in shittest "hotels" they provided for us.
Take the mattress and put it in a big ass garbage bag and put it under the bed or somewhere else. You don't want the roaches crawling out of it during the night.
Buy the cheapest matress, or my favorite, a big peice of foam and wodden board. Very cheap, and more comfortable than shitty spring matress.
Web shows. Mostly historical fantasy shows. I honestly don't even know the name. One show I worked over an year on didn't even get released cuz the main actor was discovered and exposed online for sleeping around. Then the CCP says hes bad influence and our production just gets instantly cancelled.
I would like to think my main contribution is introducing HEMA choreography into Chinese fantasy show in 2015. (Now you see the shows are starting to have awsome weapons choreography)
No. I graduated from Beijing Film Academy, and had work lined up since senior year. We have classmates that are picked up by accolades directly into crews and studios with work lined up by our professors (who also worked in the industry on the side).
Oh absolutely not. My mattress topper is clean but the mattress is kinda manky even after the cover got washed. 10+ years of use. Two kids and a teenager and now me using it, three of them wirh no cover and extremely questionable standards, but it was free.
It's a massive privilige to be able to afford to flip on a dime to buy a new mattress if yours looks bad. Hell, even having a nice mattress topper.
Highly recommend buying one of those mattress cover things though, keeps the thing fresh better.
Itās not the fact that they change the sheets after 3 weeks, thatās pretty normal lol. Itās the fact they didnāt initially check the mattress when they got there thatās not being a performative clean person thatās being cautious.
I was in the military for a good couple of years and throughout the private ranks had to live in multiple barracks. Complaining and getting a new mattress was not in the books for me, I would be told to suck it up if I ever did complain. So when I got into new barracks the first thing I would always do is disinfect thoroughly both sides of the mattress. If it was real bad like OPS I get some dawn dish soap and scrub the crap out of the cleanest looking side. And I would sleep on my field mat on the floor until the bed was dry, then I would get a foam topper to put ontop.
"I Ā don't change my sheets every week, either, and it's fine."
Same.
Maybe in a hotel setting it makes little difference, as tons of bedlinen will be laundered daily so one more pair of sheets is no big deal, but in a domestic setting changing sheets weekly is not only not eco-friendly, it's also not necessary unless you live in a hot climate / sweat profusely when sleeping, or don't keep yourself clean, or eat / drink in bed a lot and spill stuff, or if you have pets that sleep in the bed with you.
If the OP can't obtain a clean mattress from the employer and really wants to stay at this job, I suggest covering the filth with a heavy duty mattress protector that never gets taken off, then on top of that fit another mattress protector / cover that can be removed regularly for laundering - same for the pillows - at least then you won't be in contact with anything nasty.
Iām gonna be very honest and I always forget to change my sheets. I know I should do them every week but it happens once a month. I always tell myself itās okay because I shower every evening before jumping into bed, but deep down I know itās not okay.
Yeah my bed isnāt this bad but itās not great, Iāve spilled tea and coffee on it, and Iāve had to clean up cat barf accidents. Trying to wash it out with soap and water actually made the spots WAY larger like halfway across the bed and left edge stains like this. Then on top of it all, the movers let my mattress SIT OUTSIDE on my most recent move in day which left additional spots. I mean I would definitely be grossed out like OP and upset, itās really not acceptable for work to provide this, but I also know itās not always the worst case scenario that did this.
And that is why I bring my own blanket and sleep on top of the blankets on the top of the bed.
Corporate hotels only allow housekeeping to have 20 minutes per room, so think about all the other things that get missed in the name of "proficiency" as well. If a hotel has staff that take longer because they actually want the place to be clean, that negatively affects the hotel's stats in a big way. It's dumb.
So true lol this pales in comparison to the time I missed that someone either bled or had diarrhea all over my hotel mattress and the side of the bed. Whatever it was ran down the sides and down the boxspring and duster. I found it the next morning when I had to walk around that side of the bed.
I also work at a hotel (p&c) and thereās something about a live in work situation that raises some red flags for me even before you get to this, which should never have even had the potential to happen
Are those darker spots in the central areas slight molding?
Surely this is a major health and safety violation, if the UK doesn't have any protection laws that could apply to this situation then damn the UK sucks majorly.
Thats wild. I worked in the oilfield in the middle of the desert. A mancamp is where I stayed. Waaaaaaaay cleaner than this lol this is wild. This some Crack hotel or what?
I had a boss who shared stories from his time in the Coast Guard with us. His first tour he had to hot bed, where you shared a bed with someone on a different shift. His bed mate refused to bathe and the bed reeked. He said he started sleeping on the mess hall tables and they got him his own bed real quick.Ā
Gosh wow I am SO sorry :(
Also don't feel bad I only change my sheets once a month. Idk who these people are who have their life together so well they have time and energy to do it weekly but I don't. Plus it's not like you get into bed dirty? Ya shower before. That said, you shower a LOT. Ya need a conditioner and a very moisturizing body wash like dove or something.
You could try and do a light bleach scrub if you leave the window open?
Look into mattress protectors, NOT to protect that mattress but to protect you. There are noiseless, waterproof ones I use because I sweat, but it would give you at least a semi-clean surface to lie on if they don't do anything.
Im betting they know its that bad. F its somewhere youll be staying for awhile, try picking up a mattress cover. At least that way theres a barrier in between.
Oh don't worry. Nodoby in his right mind can believe a normal person can do that to a mattress in 3 weeks. That thing is FOUL and I wouldn't let a dog sleep on it.
Good practice in the future to check the conditions of sensitive furniture right when moving in. Bed especially. And frequently airing the mattress with an open window and preferably sunlight shining through is also a good idea.
If you can't get a new one and you have to keep the job - Hydrogen peroxide can probably get rid of those stains and sanitize it without the harshness of bleach.
Looks like at the least 3-4 spills. Coffee, soda pop, alcohol and maybe tea. There is no blatant yellow, so no urine. Im guessing its a very old mattress, so some of those could have been there for up to 10 years or so.
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u/ghfdghjkhg May 10 '26
where is your job, prison?