Hotel workers fed up with stinging feedback from guests have begun sharing their bugbears about customer behaviour online. “Men (it is only men) who make no attempt to cover up — even though we provide robes — when answering the door to their room-service,” groaned one long-suffering staff member. Others complained that visitors steal batteries from remote controls and refill minibar miniatures with water.
Robot detained in Egypt
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