"State of an oven during my first shift last night at a known hotel, and certainly my last."
"We went to a historic hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We walked in the room, and there was blood everywhere. The bathtub, the curtains, the walls, the floor, the lamp, everywhere! The hotel refused to move us. We moved ourselves to a different hotel that night."
They're actually taking steps against it though by posting this stuff online.
Central Europe the same
You are correct. I usually put a business card in it to keep the power on.