Now for a very educational part of my blog :) Listen up, especially if you are planning to work as housekeepers. The training lasted 4 days, and everything was going quite well until we encountered HELL. Rusty plumbing. The thing is, in Denali, everything operates from May to September; for the rest of the year, all establishments are locked up, and naturally, the pipes rust. For the first few days, the water is oversaturated with iron, which leaves bright orange stains on the plumbing, on the porcelain, streaks on the metal, and on everything you wash. The orange showers had to be scrubbed, and a miracle came to our rescue - SOFT SCRUB. By some unspoken division of labor, I cleaned the bathrooms, Veronika did the beds, and Megan and Zarko (the other two housekeepers) did everything else, i.e., vacuuming, steam cleaning carpets, laundry, and so on. I still think the bathrooms were the hardest in the first few days; the thin gloves barely helped, and the harsh chlorine burned my skin. After two days, I was sporting a wild crust of damaged skin on my knuckles and the first phalanges of my fingers; it was painful to clench and unclench my fists. I went to show this mess to our general manager, and he immediately cut me off: don't scrub the bathrooms so aggressively! Your health is more important to me. He said they would order us thicker gloves, and then we'd see, but for now - wash, but don't scrub so hard if your hands hurt. With our combined efforts, we scrubbed all the bathrooms, which I am still a little proud of :D I want to warn you - working as a housekeeper is hard at first. You don't yet know what to do and how to do it to make everything fast and easy, but the further you go, the easier it gets. For example, I always followed the same routine in every room - enter - collect dirty linen and towels, leave them in the corner - clean the bathroom and sink in the room - collect trash around the room - take the trash bag and dirty linen - carry them to the laundry - return with clean ones - make the bed - hang up clean towels - vacuum. It was exactly this way that everything worked out easier and faster for me. Teamwork also helps a lot. Never underestimate the help of others. SOME TIPS! Don't be afraid to report problems and inconveniences to your managers; it is in their interest for you to be comfortable and well. A happy employee is a good employee. Look up useful words for your job; for example, a couple of times I didn't know at all what a certain item was called in English. For instance, I had a wild panic when a toilet clogged in one of the rooms, water was pouring over the edge, and I simply didn't know how to say "plunger" in English. Although in such stressful situations, words are learned very quickly :) Or, for example, when a guest asks you for something, and you don't know the word and try to guess what it is almost by their eyes. At the same time, it's not that my English is bad, just a lack of vocabulary on the topic. Therefore, I advise you to prepare :) Safety above all - when working with chemicals (and housekeepers have many of them - bleach, iron neutralizer, air freshener, glass cleaner, tile cleaner, surface cleaner, carpet shampoo...) protect yourself thoroughly - if the gloves are thin, wear two on each hand; when working with bleach, protect your respiratory tract, make yourself some kind of mask, for example. Do not spray chemicals above eye level, as getting anything in your eyes is generally unpleasant. Work is work, but health is more important.
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