Fitted Sheet Law: California law to make flat sheets illegal?

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Why would there be a need for this law to exist? Seriously. What a waste of time and paper.
 
Another law, friendly to large manufacturers which send American jobs overseas. Not surprised.
 
ríomhaire said:
Why would there be a need for this law to exist? Seriously. What a waste of time and paper.
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There does seem to be a problem as a significant number of workplace injury claims have been filed by housekeeping employees, the LA Times reports:

More than 7,400 housekeepers working in California hotels have filed workers’ compensation claims for injuries they say they suffered last year, including 883 who said they hurt their backs, according to the state Industrial Relations Department.
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the law goes further in trying to prevent injury related to hotel room cleaning

The second part of the bill has a new requirement that actually appears to make sense:

(2) The use of long-handled tools such as mops or similar devices
in order to eliminate the practice by housekeepers of working in a
stooped, kneeling, or squatting position in order to clean bathroom
floors, walls, tubs, toilets, and other bathroom surfaces.
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Flat sheets are a ****ing nuisance sent to plague us from hell. Fitted sheets are way, way, way, way easier to put on. However, if people for some mad reason prefer to have flat sheets, they should be allowed to have them. But if it's just hotels I guess that's ok.
 
Only psychos use fitted sheets.

There, I said it.

Fitted sheets are those ones with the nylon or whatever to allow you to slip it on beds easier, right?

If so... yeah, only psychos. People in padded rooms who might poke their eyes out on sharp cotton corners otherwise.
 
"Flat-sheet related injuries" just calls to mind images of tangled maids stumbling into hallways only to be set upon by Black Youths imagining the fabric they are caught in to be KKK apparel.
 
KiplingsCat said:
Flat sheets are a ****ing nuisance sent to plague us from hell. Fitted sheets are way, way, way, way easier to put on. However, if people for some mad reason prefer to have flat sheets, they should be allowed to have them. But if it's just hotels I guess that's ok.
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what kind of bizarro world do you live in where you dont have BOTH a fitted and flat sheet?


eejit: lol
 
Reminds me of this at about 21:10 (for some reason the linking to an exact time thing doesn't seem to work properly for me, for this video at least).
 
CptStern said:
what kind of bizarro world do you live in where you dont have BOTH a fitted and flat sheet?
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A happy world where I have a fitted sheet under me, a feather-down quilt over me and none of this nonsense that they have in hotels with all the many layers of sheets and blankets that get all tucked into the mattress so when you get in under them you're kind of trapped underneath the blanket-sheet combination and you can't move and it's terrible. Flat sheets can go to hell.
 
KiplingsCat said:
A happy world where I have a fitted sheet under me, a feather-down quilt over me and none of this nonsense that they have in hotels with all the many layers of sheets and blankets that get all tucked into the mattress so when you get in under them you're kind of trapped underneath the blanket-sheet combination and you can't move and it's terrible.
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:thumbs:

 
KiplingsCat said:
A happy world where I have a fitted sheet under me, a feather-down quilt over me and none of this nonsense that they have in hotels with all the many layers of sheets and blankets that get all tucked into the mattress so when you get in under them you're kind of trapped underneath the blanket-sheet combination and you can't move and it's terrible. Flat sheets can go to hell.
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so you wash the feather down every week? this is the purpose of a flat sheet on top of a fitted sheet. much easier to wash than a feather down
 
Bitches don't know 'bout our duvet covers.
 
even duvet covers. it's a freakin hassle to get them back into shape.

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that's why you need a flat sheet so you dont have to wash your duvet cover every week.
 
I suppose with your joints giving you problems it would be quite the task... but I thought you hispanics were generally pretty pro at making beds.
 
Why would anyone even buy an unquilted duvet? That's crazy.
 
CptStern said:
so you wash the feather down every week? this is the purpose of a flat sheet on top of a fitted sheet. much easier to wash than a feather down
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Perhaps I should have been more specific: I have a feather-down duvet on my bed. (I'm differentiating here now between a duvet, which is a large cotton sack full of feathers which you put on your bed, and a quilt, which is made of three layers of cotton and filling such as wool. I tend to just call anything which I put on my bed a quilt, but I believe the time has come for greater accuracy). I change the duvet cover once a week, and we air the duvet on the washing line two or three times a year. I think we get them cleaned professionally from time to time. Duvet covers are pretty straightforward to clean, in my experience.
 
KiplingsCat said:
A happy world where I have a fitted sheet under me, a feather-down quilt over me and none of this nonsense that they have in hotels with all the many layers of sheets and blankets that get all tucked into the mattress so when you get in under them you're kind of trapped underneath the blanket-sheet combination and you can't move and it's terrible. Flat sheets can go to hell.
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Are you kidding me? That's the best! I love crawling into tucked in sheets and blankets. ****ing snug as a bug yo, shits awesome.
 
Eejit said:
I suppose with your joints giving you problems it would be quite the task... but I thought you hispanics were generally pretty pro at making beds.
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I'm far too tall and too much of a spaniard to be hispanic you welsh mofo ;)


and the wife does it

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uniform is optional :naughty:
 
More idiocy from the king of the nanny states, California, where government needs to have a hand in EVERY aspect of its citizen's personal lives and regulation in every nook and cranny of private business.
 
hey the tea party rally is over there!


alarmist as it sounds this is an attempt to bring down work related injuries in the hotel industry. it doesnt mean CHiPs will be knocking on your door and checking your sheets.this is hotel related regulation only
 
CptStern said:
hey the tea party rally is over there!


alarmist as it sounds this is an attempt to bring down work related injuries in the hotel industry. it doesnt mean CHiPs will be knocking on your door and checking your sheets.this is hotel related regulation only
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I'm sure your local B&B's and other independently owned hotels just love being forced to spend money where they shouldn't have to. This type of stuff is why businesses are fleeing California.
 
^ Pretty much. The only part of this legislation I'm comfortable with is requiring handled cleaning tools.
 
They had to go and make it illegal under State Law? Doesn't California have some workers act they can put this under?
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
I'm sure your local B&B's and other independently owned hotels just love being forced to spend money where they shouldn't have to. This type of stuff is why businesses are fleeing California.
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so you're saying a hotel will pack up and leave california because of a fitted sheet rule? perhaps moving to flint michigan will be worth the hundreds of dollars a year they'll save by not having to buy fitted sheets. they'll make it up on tourists who flock to the hotel because they hate fitted sheets
 
They won't pack up and leave, but they might go bankrupt from the unnecessary replacement of sheets that already work fine and likely contribute far less to back injury than kneeling cleaning work.

Only to be bought and rebranded as a Hilton :V
 
but they'll save on paying workman's comp so it all balances out
 
But those savings are over multiple years. The loss on mandated sheet purchases is immediate and enormous. This makes bankruptcy a very real threat.
 
... because of fitted sheets? hotels buy sheets all the goddam time. they can just switch to fitted ones gradually. like I said earlier I doubt the sheet fitting police are going to pay them a visit to make sure they have fitted sheets and even then the fines probably not going to be ill fititing for the heinousness of the crime
 
It's easy to think bankruptcy from "lol fitted sheets" is impossible. Not so much when you actually measure out the cost. And it's absolutely unfair to minimise the enforcement, because just one instance of enforcement for this absurd law could make a hotel go bankrupt. You don't know their financial states, and neither do I, so it's irresponsible to assume that they'd all be capable of affording this.
 
Stigmata said:
It's easy to think bankruptcy from "lol fitted sheets" is impossible. Not so much when you actually measure out the cost. And it's absolutely unfair to minimise the enforcement, because just one instance of enforcement for this absurd law could make a hotel go bankrupt. You don't know their financial states, and neither do I, so it's irresponsible to assume that they'd all be capable of affording this.
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it's not unfair to minimize enforcement because even the legislators dont know how they'll do it:

“There is still some uncertainty with the bill dealing with the issue of enforcement. And we’re not sure if this is a question of a complaint-driven process, or whether this is handled as part of typical or ongoing inspections that are done,” said Bob Franzoia, staff director of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ted-sheet-requirement-proposed/#ixzz1VD8wySXV

that said the purpose of this thread is to call attention to this silly law. I'm NOT defending it I'm making light of the fact anyone would take this seriously (other than hotel bean counters)

also if you read between the lines this law seems to be pandering to unions and the will of employees. not a nanny state as the nanny state alarmists would have you believe
 
CptStern said:
it's not unfair to minimize enforcement because even the legislators dont know how they'll do it
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Honestly, that makes me even more worried. If they're not going to enforce it, then this law is completely pointless and should not have been written in the first place. If they are going to enforce it, and we can't assume they won't, then this uncertainty gives them a lot of... let's call it "creative freedom".

CptStern said:
that said the purpose of this thread is to call attention to this silly law. I'm NOT defending it I'm making light of the fact anyone would take this seriously (other than hotel bean counters)

also if you read between the lines this law seems to be pandering to unions and the will of employees. not a nanny state as the nanny state alarmists would have you believe
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I understand where you're coming from. I'm not upset over the intent of the law. It's the methods it outlines that I take issue with.
 
CptStern said:
so you're saying a hotel will pack up and leave california because of a fitted sheet rule? perhaps moving to flint michigan will be worth the hundreds of dollars a year they'll save by not having to buy fitted sheets. they'll make it up on tourists who flock to the hotel because they hate fitted sheets
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The company may choose to open less new branch hotels in Cali as opposed to other states. The cost of operating in Cali eats into profit, even if there are more customers the overhead is much higher.

Not to mention NEW business avoiding opening there.

And it's far more than hotel bean counters affected by laws like this. California is known for having tens of thousands of idiotic laws similar to this one that poke their nose into every facet of industry.
 
all because of fitted sheets. you'd think they're made of gold or something
 
Again, your argument sums down to "lol fitted sheets" which is completely meaningless, and an indirect ad hominem to boot.
 
what argument would that be? other than laughing at the idea that hotels would go under because of fitted sheets I'm not offering up any argument. It's still goddam funny whether it actually happens or not. you people beat the fun out of absolutely everything.
 
CptStern said:
what argument would that be? other than laughing at the idea that hotels would go under because of fitted sheets I'm not offering up any argument. It's still goddam funny whether it actually happens or not. you people beat the fun out of absolutely everything.
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Cuz some things are funny. This isn't one of em. This one has me shaking my head in disgust at California's legislature.
 
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