usually harsh internet gives a pass to hotel housekeeper caught looking at guests belongings

[Liberal_in_LA]

Guy secretly films his hotel room. Catches housekeeper checking out his fancy stuff. I cringed- expecting the usual torrent of internet judgment and fascism... Instead... This

Highest rated comments: Natural curiosity, nothing more, but this lady has probably been fired now

"Checking out" ... you mean looking at . Nothing stolen so no story. If you leave your bedroom in a mess with all you stuff lying around, house keeping will likely look at it and pick it up. Grow up and stop whingeing.




As well as giving the TV a dust down, cleaning the bathroom and changing the sheets, the housekeeper began digging through the guest's personal belongings. 

The woman had a close look at a package that the guest had delivered before moving on to examine his games console, a PS3, and the games with it. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829798/Video-reveals-hotel-cleaners-REALLY-room.html

Apparently unaware that she was being filmed, the housekeeper then has a close look at the laptop, coming full-face in front of the camera, before turning her attention to a tablet device.

Then she turns her attention to making the bed - but it's not long before she is drawn to the contents inside the guest's suitcase. 

[Blue_Tires]

1. As long as nothing is stolen, damaged or altered, and the room was cleaned

That dude has no real complaint...So I'm wondering why he even bothered to film it -- He also sounds like the type of entitled asshole who has never tipped housekeeping in his life...

And for the record, if he's that touchy about housekeeping handling his precious "stuff", he *does* know that he can leave a message for the staff to JUST do the bathroom, or JUST make up the beds while leaving everything else where it is, right??

If he really wants to do a public service, then he could sneak a hidden camera into the baggage handling section of a major airport...

[840high]

2. I would not want

my belongings examined.

[kcr]

4. Then don't leave them out in a hotel room

and have housekeeping come clean it.

[LawDeeDah]

5. Exactly.

I have a feeling that if this were a white woman, she would just be 'curious', like during Katrina where white people were scavengers and black people were looters, both doing the same thing.

Not saying who you are responding to thinks this, but more than should will think this.

[kcr]

8. I know. You'd think the guy would just be relieved nothing was taken

I'm assuming that was the reason for the camera set up in the first place.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign, then...

[hifiguy]

22. I have to agree

I go to CES every year and nearly always take my laptop and iPhone with me when I leave the room for the day though I'd had no problem leaving my laptop in the room. I travel light and wouldn't have much to look at other than show literature and books.

Who travels with a video game system besides pro athletes? I guess this illustrates the vast gulf between myself and the modern generation.

[Blue_Tires]

29. Depending on where I was going and what I was doing

I used to take my game console with me -- Especially for work-related trips and conferences where I pretty much couldn't leave the hotel for 3-4 days...

[BeeBee]

10. According to the article the housekeeper attempted to access his computer

and she rifled through his suitcases. That is not OK.

[Nye Bevan]

12. Of course it's not OK.

Weird how so many DUers are twisting themselves into knots to justify this creepy behavior.

[BeeBee]

13. Thank you! n/t

[Blue_Tires]

18. She still doesn't deserve an internet witch-hunt, though

Given that she's earning minimum wage to scrub shitty toilets and clean semen-stained sheets all day (nevermind the fact that while what she did was questionable at best and highly irresponsible at the worst, she didn't break any laws)...And there were better ways Stravix could have handled this without being the oh-so-cliché passive-aggressive Millennial...

And if anyone is outraged over this, please, I beg of you, don't ever investigate what airliners and airports do to your luggage...

[hifiguy]

24. That is definitely NOT cool.

Looking at something sitting on a table is one thing. That is quite another.

[840high]

37. Not ok at all.

[Nye Bevan]

16. So if I borrowed your laptop for a while without your permission,

and rummaged through your files, emails, and browsing history, but did not actually steal anything or cause any damage, you would be just fine with that? No real complaint?

And how about if the NSA does the same thing?

[customerserviceguy]

38. Bingo

People have a right to expect as much privacy as can possibly be provided, except where it comes into direct conflict with the ordinary performance of an expected job or task. It's one of the reasons that we have doctor-patient privilege, where a doctor cannot be compelled to testify about what he or she has heard a patient say under distress or anesthesia.

This housekeeper's behavior is unacceptable. As for using a webcam to catch it, it's no worse than someone using a nanny cam to catch a thief or a drunk.

[msongs]

3. so she goes into another person's residence and snoops thru all the belongings?

like the plumber goes thru all your stuff when you are not looking, or the paper boy/girl takes a spin thru your garage behind your back. or the cop rummages thru your car because you left the window down in the parking lot?

this woman needs to find another line of work

[LawDeeDah]

6. maybe she looked because she will never be able to afford those things

at her slave wage salary.

If nothing is missing I don't know what the big deal is.

[Nye Bevan]

17. So you have no problem with a stranger browsing your laptop files without permission

provided that they don't actually cause any damage?

[LawDeeDah]

19. I guess not.

of all the things to worry about, this does not even get on my list.
I worry more about the super rich fucking with me and taking my shit and even my vote, than this woman.

pffft.

[Nye Bevan]

21. OK.

FYI you may want to google "identity theft protection".

[LawDeeDah]

26. sorry I can't get as outraged as you want me to be.

I'm sure there will be another opportunity for that soon.

[Nye Bevan]

32. Apology accepted (nt)

[Blue_Tires]

7. The video would have certainly gotten her fired already...

and none of your analogies are quite applicable, imo...

[Nye Bevan]

11. People rummaging through your underwear etc. is pretty creepy.

Fire her.

[joeybee12]

14. Creepy...if it was just the laptop that was out in the open and she looked at it...

that's normal curiosity...digging through a suitcase should get one fired.

[Nye Bevan]

15. If anything, accessing the laptop was worse.

I would rather that someone rummages through my underwear than gets my personal financial information from my laptop.

[LawDeeDah]

23. you mean your internet bank access?

who would leave that open on a laptop and just leave the screen up?
Isn't it wiser to get into the habit of always signing off your financial pages so a password is needed to get back in?

[joeybee12]

33. If she tried to access that's one thing, just looking at the bells and whistles

was curiosity...did she try to get onto the computer?

[suffragette]

20. Odd to me that he would set up surveillance video and leave all his costly items

Out strewn around the room instead of in locked bag.

[REP]

25. As she went through his bags, it wouldn't have made any difference

[JI7]

27. what makes this uncomfortable is this isn't a such a great job

she probably doesn't make much and most people would prefer not to do a job like this.

she didn't steal anything and it does seem like she is just curious . it's not like she was out to cause harm or anything.

i can even understand reporting her and firing her .

but to put it out like this and call on others to publicly shame her is what makes it uncomfortable.

the few times i have stayed at hotels i always kind of assumed they would see what i had. the things i DID NOT want anyone to touch or look at i would just take with me.

i have a relative who is paranoid about this stuff and stayed in a room with her once and she just told them not to clean it until we no longer were staying there. and they were fine with it.

[Niko]

28. Oh for Christ's sake, who gives a shit?

Who here can HONESTLY say they HAVEN'T snooped on other people's stuff? You never opened a medicine cabinet in your life, ever? Never touched someone else's stuff, ever?

This is natural human curiosity. She didn't steal anything, she didn't break anything. Big fucking whoop. The guy who left a hidden camera to watch people without them knowing, though? That's a HELL of a lot more creepy.

And leaving a bunch of expensive stuff around purposely to "catch" someone looking and touching it is what the police would refer to as entrapment.

[Nye Bevan]

34. This is one of those unintentionally revealing posts.

Especially when you launch right into the part about snooping in people's medicine cabinets, which, amazing as it may seem to you, is something that it literally has never occurred to me to do.

[tammywammy]

35. Yeah, I don't look through people's medicine cabinets.

[stevenleser]

30. I used to travel a lot, am starting to again. Truthfully, I always assumed this was happening

I assumed housekeeping was checking out my stuff. I'm basically happy if nothing is broken or stolen.

Yeah, its not right to do, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it. No pun intended

[Iggo]

31. ONLY BLIND STRANGERS CAN CLEAN UP AFTER ME, GODDAMIT!!!

I swear, good help is so hard to come by these days.

[kcr]

36. BUT SHE TOUCHED HIS COMPUTER!!!!!

She should be flogged at once.

Edited to add just in case because jury