A night porter smashed up the hotel where he worked causing damage of nearly £100,000 as he wanted to "teach the owners a lesson", a court heard.
Edward Woods, 50, broke 21 windows, six doors, two fridges, an oven, a breakfast table and three beer pumps while on duty at the Larkfield Priory hotel in Maidstone, Kent, on July 25 last year.
Hotel owners were left with a £94,000 repair bill following the incident, Maidstone Crown Court was told.
Woods said he was angry after being warned for refusing to charge NHS workers £1 to use a lunch plate at the height of the Covid pandemic.
The court was told he began the rampage in the early hours of the morning with a metal bracket, destroying computer screens and Covid barriers.
Woods, from Maidstone, claimed the outburst came out of sheer frustration over how he and his colleagues were being treated.
He also claims the amount of damage was closer to £44,000 rather than £94,000.
The judge handed him a 16-month jail term, suspended for 18 months and ordered him to pay £250 in court costs.
He said after the hearing: "I didn't intend to do it, but it was a build-up of loads of things. I was bullied, we all were, and I just lost it.
"The way we were treated it would have been someone else if I hadn't have erupted. I hope it's taught the owners a lesson.
"Hopefully they don't treat people like that again. I don't want them treating people like they did. I do regret doing it but, hopefully, it has taught them a lesson."
He said his year-long court ordeal has been "stressful and tiring" and chose to represent himself during barrister strikes rather than have the hearing adjourned.
The venue has closed but Woods, who now works as a groundwork labourer, hopes his outburst has had an effect.
He added: "It was a really lenient sentence, and I am grateful. I think the court took into account everything I had said about a build of frustration."
Woods said his reaction was completely out of character and that he was angry about being forced to do jobs he wasn't trained for.
The 50-year-old added he was also angry after being warned about refusing to charge NHS workers £1 to use a lunch plate during the pandemic.
He was a live-in night porter at the venue – but says he was asked to cover for other roles and sometimes had to double-up as a chef, none of which he was trained for.
In October last year, Woods appeared at Medway Magistrates' Court and pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property over the value of £5,000, as well as admitting causing £2,500 of damage to a 2021-plate Ford Fiesta belonging to hotel manager Prasanna Kirubakaran.
