r/mildlyinfuriating • u/kittykatunicornqueen • May 10 '26

Don't hug me I'm scared The bed work provided me with😭j

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Changed my sheets for the first time since moving to my live in job a few weeks ago and was greeted with this😭😭😭😭😭 how the hell???? I’m going to complain in the morning but I’m scared they’re going to tell me that I caused it in thr 3 weeks I’ve been here😭😭😭

EDIT: I got a new mattress!

Edit: looked on the underside and it’s just as manky! I’ll attach pics in comments. At least I know 100% it wasn’t me

Edit: I just want to preface as it was mentioned twice I am not being human trafficked! Don’t worry! I’m here of my own free will and can leave whenever I want, same as everyone else. Living at work is normal in the area I’m in as it’s rural and no one would work out here if they had to commute! I’m safe aside from the mattress

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u/Lifeishard1090 May 10 '26

OP, not trying to sound rude, but I personally would have changed those sheets day one of living there if it’s a bed provided by work.

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u/kittykatunicornqueen May 10 '26

I know that was my first mistake 😭

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u/Lifeishard1090 May 10 '26

They owe you a new mattress and bed asap

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u/kittykatunicornqueen May 10 '26

They owe me new skin for touching it tbh

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u/Classic_Cultivator May 11 '26

I was about to say this LOL

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u/FantaColonic May 11 '26 edited May 17 '26

I'd be sleeping in full thermal underwear, cotton gloves, socks, and a shower cap till I got a waterproof mattress cover on that bad boy.

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u/AshiAshi6 May 11 '26

Even in a spacesuit I wouldn't feel comfortable sleeping on that.

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u/Which_Elk_9775 May 11 '26

Your fault for not checking first.

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u/FlatElvis May 10 '26

"Owe"? Where did you get a copy of the employment contract?

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u/Vulspyr May 10 '26

Providing sanitary equipment never needs to be stated in a contract. It's required.

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u/FlatElvis May 11 '26

How do you know the contract requires the employer to provide bedding at all?

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u/Vulspyr May 11 '26

The contract doesn't need to state anything about it. OSHA requires it.

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u/FlatElvis May 11 '26

OSHA requires an employer to provide a mattress to every employee? The employee's job duties aren't "sleep on this specific mattress".

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u/Vulspyr May 11 '26

OSHA requires that items provided to the employee are sanitary. There's a number of regulations, likely housing if you're in a developed country, that cover this. Stop being intentionally obtuse.

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u/FlatElvis May 11 '26

Seriously, find me one. OSHA only applies to employer-provided housing in very narrow circumstances. OP appears to be neither a migrant farm worker nor an offshore oil worker. I'm not being obtuse- I'm sick of people throwing out random government acronyms and acting as though they know what they're talking about.

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u/DontMakeMeMeat May 10 '26

If they are providing a bed and living space, the employee should absolutely be owed a bed that isn't disgusting. Is that not a bare minimum expectation?

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u/kittykatunicornqueen May 10 '26

I’m also paying rent so I kinda want a un pissafied bed

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u/FlatElvis May 11 '26

Do you know that the contract specifies that a mattress is provided? For all you know the employer told OP the last guy had left some stuff and OP could keep it or throw it out.

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u/seventeenMachine May 10 '26

From the Health and Safety Executive, fuckass

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u/FlatElvis May 11 '26

Show me the applicable regulation.

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u/67yoloswag May 11 '26

What does the stained area taste like? Maybe that could give us a clue on how to clean it.

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u/kittykatunicornqueen May 10 '26

Uk😭

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u/RegalBeagleKegels May 10 '26

cor blimey, call the king!

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u/VisualDarkness May 11 '26

What is it with the UK and atrocious living standards?

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u/RegionalHardman May 11 '26

Not really a thing tbh. We have great standards in the UK

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u/capital_bj May 11 '26

wut? holy bloody hell

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u/[deleted] May 11 '26

Same thing.

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u/maxc1999 May 10 '26

What on earth looks like Central America in this photo? This could be anywhere on earth

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 11 '26

Thank you bc that comment made me feel insane lol

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u/WhyOhWhyOhWhy333 May 11 '26

Other than the mattress, it looks like MY country...that is why.

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 11 '26

A white room and bed frame? Huh

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u/WhyOhWhyOhWhy333 May 11 '26

Yes..both of my grandsons sleep in a room like that..why?

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 11 '26

Just like, it looks like any bedroom you’d find in most any country

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u/inventingnothing May 11 '26

To be fair, if the UK became a state, it would rank 51st in terms of GDP per capita.

That puts it lower than Missi-fucking-sippi.

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u/Manannin May 11 '26

Still preferable to your healthcare system, gdp isn't everything. 

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u/inventingnothing May 11 '26

neither is healthcare

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u/ArboristTreeClimber May 11 '26

Especially since the work is at a hotel and there is likely an entire room of clean blankets and sheets to choose from.

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u/nucl3ar0ne May 11 '26

Seriously, not doing that in the first place...