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USATODAY: Group of friends take over Nashville hotel for hours after no employees were found
(www.usatoday.com)
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Zach Galifinakas is the crazy manager in...
SuperMotel
Also starring American Farrera and the rest of the Cloud9 cast
Especially the naked woman part.
All jokes aside, naked woman who was planning on staying in the room for a few weeks and it just happens to be the room that the employee gives out when he thinks all the other rooms are taken? It's been a long time since I had friends working in hotels, but the last few rooms available were usually held as a reserve for situations like this (i.e. so they have an ace in the hole to help out important/pissed off guests). So the fact that this exact room is the same room that already has a long-term, naked tenant is a little fishy.
It's all just circumstantial, and not even particularly strong evidence, but it certainly seems suggestive of some sort of prostitution.
Exactly. Believable up to that point.
Plenty of hotels are small enough that they'd only need one employee at night. If that employee walks off the job or something sure, but the naked woman screams fake to me.
but the last few rooms available were usually held as a reserve for situations like this
Just a friendly counterpoint, but when I worked the front desk of a major hotel chain the rooms were overbooked each and every single night, purposely.
The front office manager even had a very special formula to calculate to try to get right at the 100% occupancy rate.
On a tangial side note, it really sucked working the front desk when you overbooked and someone who comes in with a guaranteed by credit card reservation has no room and you have to turn them away; fun times.
Fair enough. My buddies' experience was mostly before overbooking was very common or advanced (when dinosaurs roamed the Earth!), and it was at a smaller, independent hotel.
Why does my experience lack this? Pls inform the manager /j
They're included with the ones that offer internet access for no additional charge, just typically not there in person (or not without going through some extra steps first anyway).
That was a bit odd. I usually just get a chocolate on the pillow, if even that.
Yeah but have you ever shown up to get checked in and then run the hotel for a few hours? I think a naked woman is the least they could offer you
Personally, as an ex employee of la Quinta, all this tracks.
Honestly, this is just across the board in hospitality. I could totally see this happening at at any of the three hotels I worked at, and these were Mariott and Hilton properties.
Hospitality is such a toxic industry, the only people who can really survive and thrive in this environment are power-tripping psychos and workaholics.
Omg that's truueee
I could see at a lower flagged hotel, but any full service property is going to have a manager on duty in addition to the rest of the staff. For example extremely unlikely to happen at a full Marriott, but maybe at a Residence Inn
The one full-service property I worked at was a Doubletree...and the only person there at night after 10-11 PM is the night auditor.
Then again, none of these properties were particularly large. That Doubletree I mentioned was just shy of 200 rooms, and the other two hovered around 100.
I once had a reservation to stay at a La Quinta and there was literal poop on the bathroom light switch, the sheets on the neatly made bed were dirty (wrinkled as if slept in, black hair, literal dirt), there was what appeared to be a used tissue on the floor just under the edge of the bed, and the toilet was dirty like it hadn’t been cleaned in months (least of the issues).
They refused to fix the problems, give us a new room, or refund us. It was shocking and I’ll never book with them again.
We try hard not to stay in Wyndham hotels, too many bad stays. We usually go to the cheaper Marriott’s.
This reminds me of a recent stay at a chain hotel. One person at the front desk for the entire hotel. He seemed really overwhelmed. I felt bad for the guy.
That's how it always seems to be now. At least in IHG hotels that my former employer would always put me in. Other chains seem to be a little better
I wonder how random people can just start checking guests in without a system password.
Someone walked away leaving it unlocked and it doesn't automatically lock after inactivity.
I would bet money on "password was on a post it taped to the screen" instead.
Bonus points for the password being written under the laat two scratched out passwords.
RIP /talesfromthefrontdesk
It amazes me that people don't want to work in the fast moving field of hotel operations. Positions start at the minimum wage, and after six months to a year, remain there. Crumbling physical architecture compliments the online tangle of archaic hotel programs, run on the exciting Windows95 operating system. And while the guests may yell at you and treat you like you are beneath them, that's alright, because management is only a phone call away to do the same.
There are good properties to work at and bad ones, just like most jobs. I work as a full time night auditor with a solid crew and great management (now... previous manager was nice but incompetent), and I'm quite happy to say I make a fair chunk more than my state's minimum. That all said, it does vary heavily based on property location, size, amenities, management, how well coworkers gel together -- so apply to job postings carefully if you go into hospitality. It does give you fun stories though, that's why I love the job.
Reddit used to have a sub for hospitality stories. I think it was talesfromthefrontdesk? It was hilarious and depressing.
Not surprising given than it's Wyndham, and reinforces my policy to never stay in one of their hotels again.
I went to one in Florida, good location, nice area, near an attraction. Sign and lobby were new. Prices were premium given their location near the attraction. But the building with the rooms--- ho-lee fuck. It was worse than a tenement. Flickering fluorescent lights in the hallway. Paint peeling off every surface including walls and doors and ceiling, both inside the room and out. Carpet in the hallway was filthy. The people doing the room had tried to clean it, but it was still awful. More flickering lights and peeling paint in the bathroom. Loud music from both next door rooms. And half the parking lot was cargo containers. No bed bugs fortunately, so I got like 5 hours sleep (arrived at 2am ish) then checked the fuck out. At least they had no problem refunding me.
I emailed the hotel manager and Wyndham corporate basically saying what the ever loving fuck. I was polite and respectful, but was quite clear that if they value their brand they need to close this hotel until it can be seriously rehabilitated. Both the hotel manager and Wyndham sent back a generic 'sorry we didn't live up to your expectations thank you for your feedback we will consider it'. AKA- we know and we don't give a fuck.
So yeah.... Wyndham never again.
I now have a simple rule- Hilton or Marriott, Hilton highly preferred. They cost more but at least you know you're going to get a clean building and a decent nights sleep.
My brother worked overnights cbd mornings for a popular hotel chain. And let me tell you, it's not worth it. You deal with shitty people, shitty pay and benefits, and even back then (10 years ago) he was doing 4 jobs outside his job description. Employees walking out is nothing new.
When workers are paid shit wages so the boardmembers and shareholders can profit, it's no wonder employees don't care about their jobs.