Comments on: California bill would mandate fitted, rather than flat, sheets on hotel beds

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:36:08 +0000

I’ve been making beds for over 60 years using both fitted and flat sheets…and though no “professional”, it’s been my experience that I do way more lifting, and lifting higher especially with the last corner, using fitted sheets. And I’ve no need to do any lifting when making hospital corners.

By: Jim March

Jim March — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:31:31 +0000

And THIS is why a full-time legislature is a Bad Idea[tm].

By: California to Sleep Tight in Government Approved Sheets? : Conservative Compendium

Sun, 08 May 2011 07:38:31 +0000

[…] of legitimate government to escape the scrutiny of the Californian nanny state. To wit (Hat-tip: Overlawyered): …[N]ext Monday … a committee will ponder a labor union-backed bill mandating the use […]

By: JillH

JillH — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:01:55 +0000

I knew someone was “in-bed” with the elastic manufacturers…that’s it who is it?

By: DaveT

DaveT — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:09:06 +0000

Can’t the maids just go to DOSH–oh yeah, I totally forgot: the California hospitality industry sorta prefers to hire illegal aliens of sufficient timidity not to file complaints, and it’s just swell that we have people like Senator de Leon “creating new crimes” to remedy that.

By: Fitted-sheet lobby on the move out west « The Cotton Boll Conspiracy

Fitted-sheet lobby on the move out west « The Cotton Boll Conspiracy — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:21:30 +0000

[…] that’s right, as Overlawyered put it, this is an issue “because, really, there’s no detail too small for the government to […]

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:37 +0000

I can imagine a suit against a hot clamming that putting on fitted sheets cause Ms. Maid’s back pain. This law heads off such suits and has good social effect. My wife is good with fitted sheets; they are daunting to me.

By: Smart Dude

Smart Dude — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:09:21 +0000

Insane micro-management overlawyering at its worst.

All laws must come with a 5 to 20 year expiration date, including a phase-in for all previous statutes.

By: kimsch

kimsch — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:53:07 +0000

Using only flat sheets makes sense – like socks with no left or right, there’s no need to ensure a “matched pair” of fitted and flat for each bed. Unless that’s the real goal. A union position(s) in each hotel in the laundry making matched pairs of sheets instead of each maid taking stacks of folded flat sheets without worry.

By: Surely we can agree the State of California is over stepping its bounds here… « White Rock Kitchens

Wed, 04 May 2011 02:33:56 +0000

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