Sunday, 4 October 2015

Productive work desk?

My husband is currently working away so I jealously looked up his hotel on line to see what the rooms and pool were like. I love hotels! Well, I love good hotels. There's a funny story attached to that statement which I'll come to in a moment.
The hotel my husband is staying at caters for business travellers which I why I assume they have chosen to describe the desks in their rooms as 'Productive Work Desks'. What on earth does that mean? I conjured up the thought placing your work on the desk and it magically does it all for you while you laze in the pool. Alternatively, perhaps the desk has magical powers and can change a lazy person in to a 'productive' one? Who knows?

I just thought it was a very odd statement, so I looked up what constitutes a 'Productive Work Desk'. It showed a picture someone had designed with arrows marking important items one should have to make their workspace more productive e.g. a plant, a familiar mug, an organised in-tray, ergonomically designed chair and a photograph. I doubt the hotel offered any of these apart from the chair so can't imagine how they are allowed to describe it in that way. It's like describing 'restful and dreamy beds' or 'drunk as a skunk mini-bars'.
Anyway back to the very worst hotel I've ever stayed at. It made Bates' Motel look like the Ritz. The bathroom door didn't shut as it was actually 2" narrower than the opening. Our shoes literally stuck to the carpet and a suspicious red substance adorned one wall which I hastily told my daughter that it must have been ketchup splattering out of the bottle. More like a murder scene but I wasn't going to tell her that.

The place hadn't been cleaned in decades which though being extremely gross, was quite fortunate because the invisible cleaner hadn't noticed the iPhone charger still left plugged in. Serves me right for picking one of the cheapest hotels in the area - never again!

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