Idk if this is the right place to ask but it’s been bothering me and I just really have to try Something.
When I started working at this hotel/resort/vacation rental/few restaurant/greedy ass place, I was simply tasked with cleaning the public restrooms on property. Maybe some entryways and common areas. Slow, easy, and honestly all the slow seasons kept guests away so I barely needed to do anything.
When I was trained by the male and female who were in the process of quitting this job, they warned me about rude guests barging into the multi stall bathrooms that can’t be locked.
(They also warned me no one would give a shit about my job and boy were they right. For example: I would ask for soap to be restocked because everything was empty and it took them 4 months to replace soap. Literally dunno how guests were cleaning their hands . Had some hand sanitizer here n there at least?)
I worked in that position for about a year and a half. Apparently the longest anyone has lasted since the job’s inception 9 years ago.
They weren’t fucking kidding. Both gendered restrooms would constantly have someone ignoring my sign (I have chemicals everywhere!) push open the door, ignore me kindly saying for their safety to use another restroom, and piss.
I went to the literal owner of the private property, and he told me to talk to my manager. Manager sent me to HR. HR sent me to another manager. Every fucking person said “🤷️ You are not allowed to block the door. Sorry they do that.”
So the actual problem is the mens restroom. Now, I am not trying to be sexist in the least, but the only people who shoved past a sign, a Wet Floor sign blocking the outside, and my heavy rolling bag of my supplies I did block the door with, only for them to being out their genitals in front of me or make gross comments, was the men… I didn’t care about the rules, I kept trying heavier and heavier objects to block the door. I had a guy ram the door with his arm multiple times to open it, and scream at me for not having it open….then screamed at me for having chemicals everywhere… 🤦️
Of course I did try the “leave the restroom and wait for them to finish” but my managers kept telling me to stop waiting and just clean around them. Busy days meant I would be standing out there a Long time…
In october I was moved to Laundry. Absolute heaven in comparison.
But they moved a housekeeper to public spaces instead. I watch her try so hard to genuinely care for her position, and ask for supplies and get ignored… by January she quit, saying how unsafe the bathrooms were…
Someone who just got hired as a housekeeper, was then moved to public spaces. She has now been calling out for so so many days, already stating that she’s uncomfortable with how she is treated in the restrooms…
I spoke again with our new manager and reminded them of what I went through and to help brainstorm ideas on how to stop them..
His advice was “yeah we really need a sign..” “WHAT??? What happened to the signs i had to make because you guys never supplied them?!!???! I left them in the closets when i moved positions!!!!!” Im furious at that alone but said “look thats not gonna work anyways and higher ups say I cant block the door. We need to think of something. I thought of putting a bar in between some of the door frames with the sign, but they’d just use it for a limbo stick. Some doors don’t even have frames to hold it either…”
He does care, first of 4 managers ive been through in just 2 years, but we have literally no idea what to do.
The doors physically cannot lock either. They have simply one handle inside and a flat metal part flesh against the door to push open. Having the covid hand washing signs everywhere unfortunately made people less inclined to read our do not enter signs
Any help is appreciated…