I’m a former Airbnb employee – my favorite horror stories about hosts and their guests will shock you
A WOMAN claiming to be a former employee with Airbnb shared her own horror story during her time with the company.
Marie shared her story on her TikTok account, @msmysteryjones, which has multiple other videos about working at Airbnb.
Her favorite story was about a host who allegedly fed their guests spaghetti with dog food in it.
Marie claims she received a complaint about a host who listed their rental as a “private space” when it was actually a shared one.
She said she told the host to change the listing as soon as possible to avoid penalties. The guests who made the complaint were nice about it, according to Marie, before another problem arose.
“The [guests] were like, ‘hey, here’s this second problem. She made us spaghetti,’” explained Marie. “I was like ‘oh, well that was really nice of her.”
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However, Marie said the guests began to tell her that the meal had tasted strange, prompting them to search the host’s garbage.
“‘We couldn’t find any canned ground beef or canned ground meat or any styrofoam packaging for ground meat,’” Marie said, repeating what the guests allegedly told her.
“‘We did find an empty can of dog food, though.’”
Marie said she looked over previous reviews from that particular host where guests praised their spaghetti and says she was shocked.
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In the caption of the now-deleted video, Marie wrote: “Refund money exchanged hands that day.”
Marie’s story caused a debate between commenters as some argued how safe it was to take food from strangers while others tried to give the host the benefit of the doubt.
“This is why my parents taught me to never eat somewhere if you haven’t seen it been cooked and you don’t [know] the person personally,” wrote one user.
“Maybe the meat had been in her freezer in Tupperware?” wrote another.
A third person argued, “there was zero proof it was dog food.”
In a follow-up video, Marie said she theorized that the host was probably an elderly person who might have confused canned beef with canned dog food.
“She did have a dog,” Marie said. “It could have been an honest mistake. Either way, I just felt really bad about the whole situation.”
The Sun reached out to Airbnb for comment, who said: “this person has never been an Airbnb employee.”
Marie told The Sun she was hired by a third-party call center hired by Airbnb to do their work.
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“But yes I technically did work for Airbnb.”
The videos were taken down and the third-party company that hired Marie reached out to her through its HR department and asked her to remove the video.
