Why not just hire two housekeepers and divide the workload among them?
Is Jeff, or whoever the head butler is, so ruthlessly efficient that the cost of a second employee is intolerable?
Is Jeff, or whoever the head butler is, so ruthlessly efficient that the cost of a second employee is intolerable?
To use the bathroom they had to crawl out of a window, down a hidden path, into a maintenance building, and then into a basement area to use the toilet.
The issue wasn't just the workload, the issue was that these workers were meant to be hidden from view, and certainly not allowed to share the same facilities as the owner. That sort of equality is unpalatable to the elite.
This behavior is not new and was common among royal courts of centuries past.
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