To think these women are arseholes?

[Flypaperforarseholes]

Spent the weekend away with a group of women (most of whom I don't know) for a friend's birthday.
10 of us in total, 2 of whom (including the Laura, whose birthday we were celebrating) I have been friends with for 10+ years.
Shared a twin with Nora, on Sunday morning, before going to breakfast, we packed ready to check out. I then stripped the beds and collected the used towels together.
We went down for breakfast and Laura laughingly asked if I'd stripped the beds yet. It is a bit of a standing joke amongst us because it's something I've always done in hotels. One of the other women, Paula, asked what it was about and I explained. She was quite taken aback and asked why I felt the need to do it/don't I like to relax etc. She drew it to the attention of the whole group and took to calling me Mrs Mop for the rest of the day. A bit irritating but didn't bother me really.
This evening, a message from Paula came up in the watsapp group which had been set up at the planning stage of the trip.
"Thank you for a lovely weekend, girls. Laura, do give me flypaperforarseholes number, good help is so hard to come by these days. LOL!"
A few laughter emojis and "LOL"'s from some of the other women. Nothing from Paula or Nora yet.
Am I BU to think these women are arseholes?! It hasn't bothered me massively, in large part due to the fact that I found Paula a pretentious bore of a woman and thus give a minimum of fucks about what she thinks of me but I'm surprised that this such a small thing seems to have become quite the focal point for her. I'm assuming she doesn't realise I'm on the group chat because I haven't actually messaged on it. These women are school mum friends of Lauras and I don't want her to get caught in the middle so haven't replied...yet.

[Thissowasnttheplan]

I don't see it as affectionate teasing, could have been that if it had just been a joke at breakfast, but to keep going on about it all weekend and even after strikes me more like school girl nastiness.
I agree with Amp. I worked in a hotel and my fellow chambermaid always stripped beds because she knew what a crap job it is.
You were nice and empathetic, this other woman wasn't..

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[TheNaze73]

I think you need to lighten up a bit.

[Nocabbageinmyeye]

Justabitofcertainty that is and was meant in no way bitchy

[Roussette]

Do you actually take the sheets off and the quilt out the cover, and pillows out the pillowcases, and if so what the heck do you do with them?

Teasing carried a bit too far but nothing my friends wouldn't do!

[NCISgeek]

I haven't stripped the beds in a hotel previously but having read the thread about sheets only being changed if guests stay more than one night I'm going to start. I do pick up all rubbish and pile the towels in the bath.

[pangolina]

I don't think stripping the bed is particularly odd.
However I do think you are overreacting and dwelling on this more than is necessary.
I'd respond saying 'this is my no, I charge £50 an hr but I only change beds in hotels'
If she is being bitchy it will take the wind out of her sails

[splendide]

It wouldn't occur to me to strip the beds - I might start.

[Trifleorbust]

*Roussette:

I normally just leave a small pile of linen on the floor to be grabbed by the chambermaids.

[eclipse16]

Just sounds like harmless banter to me. I personally wouldn't be offended but then I have a lot of male friends who constantly wind each other up so am less sensitive to it. The best thing you can do is just laugh along with them as even if they did set out to offend you, then not reacting shows you are better than that and are rising above it.

Happiness is the best form of revenge!

[DonaldStott]

The only thing they are guilty of is not being funny.

I think you are overthinking it.

They will be aware that you are on the whatsapp group as your name will be on it.

Nobody backed up her milking of the poor joke, so I would just take it as a mild pisstake and forget about it.

[Presstheresetbutton]

I think most people who've done domestic work strip the beds in hotels

I do. It's shit work for shit pay. Why not help them out. I loved it when I went into a room and they'd stripped the bed for me.

[JustABitOfUncertainty]

Sorry Nocabbageinmyeye

[Trifleorbust]

NavyandWhite:

I don't get it - why would someone tidying up (provided it's a quick tidy, not roping you into cleaning the whole room!) annoy you?

[Winetemptress]

I think it was a mild piss take and defiantly post 'thanks for a great weekend and sorry Laura you couldn't afford me' and don't take it so seriously.

Stripping the beds in a hotel isn't commen practise, at a friends house yes but not a hotel.

Still thinking they are asshoies is OTT. My friends would piss take a lot worse.

[Ampersand22]

Yeah they are if they make me feel bad about what was a kind act and tease me when they don't know me that well. If they OP had kicked the chambermaid in the cunt then she'd BU but she simply was kind to someone and made to feel bad about it. If you think that's not arsehole territory then maybe you're the arsehole here Navy and that's not close to the level of arseholery you're capable of, so that's why you're saying that. Sorry if I got on your nerves

[Trifleorbust]

Navy:

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You think someone is an arsehole and a cunt because they might be irritated by someone stripping beds and tidying up? *

Is your implication that it is just not okay to call them names, or that getting irritated by someone doing something nice is basically reasonable (i.e. not cuntish or arseholeish)?

[Ampersand22]

I am love, I won't lie to you, when kind things get mocked and ridiculed I am a sane person in an insane world.

[Trifleorbust]

Navy:

Well, what's a cunt? It is a pretty subjective term! I've seen people called cunts for far less than getting visibly annoyed and mocking with someone for doing someone else a small kindness.

[frieda909]

I've never thought about stripping the bed so I'd find it a bit surprising, but it wouldn't merit more than a minute or two of conversation. The fact that she found it so funny that she felt the need to joke about it all day and then text afterwards to crack yet another joke about it suggests that she really is a bit of a bore!

[Rainydayspending]

It really smacks of that particular person trying very hard (feeling judged perhaps) to be something they're not (need a cleaner, Mrs Mop etc). She either longs to have a cleaner or has one and feels that makes her better in someway/ middle class guilt over having a cleaner.
She sounds like she needs to get over it.
Stripping a bed/ having a cleaner none of these are a big deal. What's weird is this woman fixating on it.