Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.

AIRBNB HOSTS ARE melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,” like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”

The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20, quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday. Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up after themselves.

“As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments, our homes, and, in many cases, our personal living spaces,” one person wrote in Airbnb’s official forum for hosts. “The problem is that Airbnb increasingly expects hosts to accept the risks while limiting our ability to protect ourselves.”

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[–] 3 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

Woof lol, just layers deeper than mere "independent contractors", too, the strike threat is unbelievably funny.

These are people who are years downstream of even other downstream folks (the plastic-facade YouTuber hustlesphere influencer types who eventually <???> enough popularity to move these folks into actionable FOMO lol).

A "strike" 🤡

Them saying "I was squandering my inheritance, but then I wasn't and it was so easy, I was so smart!, and now they made it harder, so I'll have to suffer through just squandering it again and I'm mad that they did this to me!"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    I had considered more fully explaining the entire onion of irony of this being a massive self report on the many ways in which these people are contemptible evil failures, but I settled on just directly insulting them.

    But yes, yeah, what you say is true. The levels of delusional self caused shittiness, the different ways that ... threatening a 'strike', in this situation, reveals both how stupid and how evil one is...

    Its comical. Like, 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' levels of irony.

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