Day 12. Uniform / Linen and Final Day in Housekeeping :)

Day 12. The day I had been anticipating. It marks the end of my training in the Housekeeping department. Happy happy joy joy! And today, I wouldn't be doing any physically draining work because I'm only in the uniform and linen department. So at 8am, I start at the uniform department. Wow! I had never seen so many uniforms in my life. Every corner of the tiny room was filled with all sorts of uniforms, ranging from the types, colour, sizes and so on. Hilton has got 10 F&B outlets, each with its own uniforms. In addition, we've got uniforms for all the other staffs, including the fitness crew at the gym. Kerazee. So yeah, my job was to pair up the uniforms and put them back onto the clothing rack according to the staff's ID no. It was no joke seriously. It was really hard to look for the numbers. But at least it was fun trying to figure out what goes where :)

Today was also the day that we all had to wear the Hilton boleh shirt. This is a once in a month thing which happens every 2nd Saturday of the month. Fun fun fun? Well one thing I've realised so far is that I can never find a uniform that fits me right. I mean seriously, is everyone that big or small? I was given an M sized shirt for females, but it was too short. Way too short. Even the L sized shirt for females was too short for me. So, in conclusion, I had to wear the males M sized shirt, M being the smallest size for the shirts. Gosh. It was big. And to add salt to the wounds, my pants were huge too. The smaller sizes were too short and tight for me ( see i'm not that skinny, just slender ) and the bigger sizes too big. What to do? Wear the bigger ones they say. Omigosh what a nightmare. Oh well, let's hope no one noticed XD

After lunch, I moved on to the linen department, which was where all guest linens, towels and all sorts were handled. My job for the day, fold linens. Ergh. There were 3 ultra huge bags of towels to fold. 3 ULTRA HUGE BAGS. One look and I knew I'd never finish by 4pm. And it was 1pm then. What a joke! Anyways so I folded and I folded, till my team leader, a Bangladeshi worker who speaks way better BM then me was paged to deliver linens to the particular floors. WEEEEE! I get to go play with the lift! Go up to send the linens and back down to fold linens. I did that till 4pm and left, feeling a huge burden lifted off my shoulders as I may no longer have to do all these "cheap labour jobs".

I was caught by surprise when I was approached by one of the supervisors in the Housekeeping department. And she asked me, why is it that I did not want to major in Housekeeping? And my answer was simple, I was not interested and I preferred another department. She understood and nodded, telling me that she too had once majored in Front Office but was now in the Housekeeping department. That really shocked me to bits! What if I ended up being like her? I wouldn't want to do something I hated for the rest of my life right? Questions began to fill my mind as I wondered what was to happen to me in the future.