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Somewhere in one of the darker corners of the information cycle is a class, with a lesson plan and in that lesson plan some we bit of mind altering information appeared. It read, "englightened management refers to roomskeepers as room attendants, not maids."  The professors of this class claimed that in their studies it was discovered that the term Maid, was demeaning and belittling to the employers who found their occupations under the title of rooms keepers or house keepers.  This is interesting, however apparently the correct terminology has not caught on all around the global hospitality industry.  Imagine that!

The BBC has been circulating the profoundness of the employment of the Servant from the Service Sector of Society.  Housekeepers include a variety of individuals including the cooks, the servors, the waiters, the waitresses, the disher washers, the roomskeepers, the lobby porters, the personal valets, the bell persons, the house persons and if you are not mentioned, check with England.  They seem to have an upper hand on the entire hospitality industry.  It is no reason why.

In the early 800 AD, the Vikings raided and set up their longhouses and when guests came a calling....they invited all inside.  It could be as many as 30 or 40, or it might be 100 or it might be several hundred.  However many were visiting is how many were invited to have supper, and to spend the night or the week or the following several months.  That was the Viking way.   This extreme sense of hospitality became the Hotels we enjoy today.  Blame it on the Celtics...the Vikings of the old days.  Use your imagination of what it would be like to house, feed, and shelter in one longhouse, say a 100 men and women and compare it to our standards of today.

They also had their service staff.  The cooks, the servors, the women who cleaned and made their cloth, their clothes, and kept their houses.  The cheifs had their followers who looked after him and he in return looked all of them.  Discipline was rudimentary:  twice a year or less they went to the Althing and the Lawspeaker attended to any conflicts...weapons were not present.  However once the dispute was settled and everyone went on there way, it became at times open season.  For 800 AD it worked well and these people eventually evolved a legal system that is the basis of our legal system today in America.

Back to the Hospitality Industry.  Modern service industry work is really complicated.  For the most part it is a simple matter of taking care of a building, in parts, and places and pieces and components.  That building can be a house, or an apartment complex, or an office building, or an industrial complex, or a factory, or it could be a tent, or smaller like a car, a garage, or a room.  Althought the function or structure might change to a museum or a hotel or a palace the process of caring for the "property" never really changes.  It has set and established duties.  If you have never taken care of one of anything, you might not realize how complex it can become.  So herewith following is a list of merely cleaning one room, and what is considered or taken into mind:

1.  The air
2.  The ceiling
3. The floor
4. The furnishings
5. The things
6. The Outside
7. The Inside
8. The conditiions
9. The qualities
10. The small components
11. The spots
12. The electronics
13. The lights
14. The fans
15. The vents
16. The plugs
17. The paint
18. The cracks
19. The spots
20. The nicks
21. The windows
22. The shades
23. The curtains.
24. The plants
25.  The vases
26. The waters
27.The adjoining areas
28. The bathroom
29.  The bedspread
30.  The sheets
31. The pillows
32.  The mattresses
33.  The rugs
34.  The couch
35. The seams
36. The tables
37. The chairs
38. The dust
39. The flyspots
40. The spiders
41. The webs
42. The Lamps
43. The magazines
44. Things we use that we need
45. Things we have that we do not need
46.  Things we look at that we ignore
47. The devices of communication
48. The Soaps
49. The wash cloths
50. The shampoo
51. The hand cream
52. The towels
53. The stains
54. The hair
55. The mirror spots
56. The toliet spots
57. The tub spots
58. The flow of humans
59. The out trash
60. The left over dishes
61. The left over food
62. The dust  under things
63.  The dust in the corners
64.  The dust that never goes away
65. The dust in the air that stirs constantly
66. The coming and going of humans
67. The dirty cleaning rags
68. The clean cleaning rags
69. Where it comes from
70. Where it goes
71.  The wardrobe
72. The iron
73. The ironing board
74. The washing
75. The drying
76. The mending
77.The folding
78. The walking
79. The bending
80. The standing
81. The grabbing
82. The pulling
83. The carrying
84. The carrying the weight
85. The hurting feet
86. The pushing
87. The sitting (if ever)
88. The missing of events
89. The times of no rests
90. The watching of others have fun
91. The feeling of being punished, but for what?
92. The stress from others unsatisfied desires
93. The projected conflicts from other peoples lives
94. The reasons why property causes problems
95. Locations of value or naught
96. The view from the window
97. The types and kinds of bed frames
98. The color schemes
99. The arrangements of things within a place
100. The spiritual karma of a location or place.

I could continue, however I am extremely tired and extremely lonely.  Cleaning up after all these spirits who are constantly moving through our atmosphere can become mind boogling complicated.  And i am so tired I cannot think right now.  I am certain there is more things to consider when cleaning up after other people.  Like courtesy and ethics and morality and honesty and dignity and love for life.  But I guess if you had those things you would be the one hiring instead of serving.