Tall swivel chair behind the front desk, or the big comfy chairs in the lobby. If it's hot and humid I'll take my laptop and the cordless phone into the breakfast room where the AC is better. I'm spoiled here by the lack of work and the subsequent leeway.Around 5pm, when I am working the desk alone, guest (I will call him PG for problem guest) and I have this conversation. PG: I put 2 bags of garbage outside of my room for you to take care of. Me: ok, once I check these folks in I will come dispose of them for you. (At this point I was beyond annoyed with him)It can also mean "farmer," derived from the Gujarati word pat or patlikh, and is often assigned to the owner or tenant of a piece of land. There used to be a shit ton of hotels owned by Patels, hence the scam. Now that someone at your property has fallen for the scam, expect calls like that to increase for a while.r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk • guest threatens my employee over a billing mistake, returns later to demand a free room and threatens me next r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk •I've checked into hotel rooms really late (they are hotels. I'm away from my house. Whether for business or pleasure, I'm not paying $200-$300 to spend 24 hours in a hotel room for the fuck of it.)1. Imagine him getting pulled over by a woman cop. "Excuse me Miss. But I don't want to be pulled over by a woman. You wouldn't understand how to write me a ticket, so don't worry your pretty little head and call a male officer to write my ticket.". Reply.Posted by TURRITONUTRICULA. Hurricane coming. Good time to call about those February reservations. Sandbags in place, packing up the usual goodies, and decided I would check voicemails that have come in this morning. 37 voicemails so far. (Our voicemail explains we are closed and evacuating) “Yes, I would like to discuss my reservations for ... 10-Apr-2014 ... guest feuds, ghost dogs, strange phone calls, and outrageous complaints, More Tales from the Front Desk is packed with stories from a small-town ...Try any beginner video that focus on stretching hips and leg muscles. 30 - 60 minutes, three times a week and my foot pain disappears. When I slack off, the pain slowly comes back. 1. MaidOfClarity • 1 yr. ago. I've had 5 people try to check in during my shift so far, which is only 2 hours done.If you went to University and are wondering where your tuition money went…. So I'm one of the concierges at a very high level hotel in a major east coast U.S. city. We're talking 400+ a night even on the slower weeks. Like anyone working the desk at a high end place I have tons of stories about the ballers, frauds, and wannabes that ...Couple try to steal from us but we knew their itinerary.... : r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. by DadLoCo. I grew up in the B&B Hotel my parents owned for 28 years. We lived in Picton, New Zealand (top of the South Island) where people catch the ferry to the North Island (a three hour trip). So my parents had one motel unit attached to the B&B, and go ...12 words in my head for any amount of BTC that I can use however I damn please. this just perfectly summarises how outdated and irrelevant gvts are becoming. change happens fast. 320. 70. r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. Join.Yes that are local and own several properties, both business and residential. Even though they keep their connections like that private, you can bet your bottom dollar some assess were chewed at the station.If you see an online price, book online. SERIOUSLY. : r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. by Shyam09. If you see an online price, book online. SERIOUSLY. Some random lady (RL) calls. RL: "Hi! I'd like to know the price of one room for tonight." Me: "I have a non-smoking King size for $95 plus tax."Feb 20, 2022 · Tales From The Front Desk Private group · 40 members Join group About Discussion More About Discussion About this group Guests… reservations… requests… Share your front desk stories! This group is for sharing, venting, laughing, networking and navigating the world of hospitality. Private Only members can see who's in the group and what they post. One has to wonder if these front desk agents are the biggest heroes of all these days… especially if you look at this collection of tales from the front desk. Keep scrolling below for these five epic stories of noisy guests, rude Karens, and troublesome OTAs. For more stories like this, here's one about a local Karen and Kevin at a motel.Worked front desk for years. A frequent executive stayed once a month. He was good looking, quiet. Has a wife and they adopted two kids. Months into him staying, a very obvious lady of the night walked in asking how to get to his room. Cheating, hooking, etc. are as common at a hotel like rain in Seattle.The Groom Tale. Settle down with a beverage and nosh, it's a long one. Once upon a Time in the pre-pandemic period, in a city center Luxury Collection Hotel (LCH), there worked a small but spunky NA, yours truly (YT). YT is a woman of experience and classy appearance, accustomed to dealing with people in all walks of life: collars of white or ... 1.My General Manager didn't talk to me at all once I announced that I am leaving the hotel to head my career into Sales. He gets really personal and salty once people starts leaving his property and blacklist anyone who does. I knew it was going to happen to me too since I knew that he did it to everyone who left.She asks what the price is a I tell her it’s $$$ after taxes and we charge $ for incidentals as well which you get back within a few business days after check out. Lady: …but I called and spoke to another gentleman earlier and he said it was $$ and not what you said. Me: I understand but the prices change all the time.Just a note for those of us that work in the northern states. As snow begins to fly, if a guest claims they are from an area where snow is nonexistent and they want driving tips.People have seen too many movies. They think "hotel" automatically means valet, bellhops, concierge, restaurant, and 24 hour management, etc. Most leisure travelers don't know what select service means and think they're getting a deal. They might be, but they also need to temper their expectations.It's becoming more common for hotels to replace vending machines with snack shops run by the front desk staff. I think it's to prevent people trying to steal from/damage vending machines. AND it's more profitable. ThatsNoMoOnx • 2 yr. ago. People still steal from the sundry shop. It's ridiculous. I said, if it was fraud, someone would contact them. That would almost certainly be their credit card processor, filing a notice of charge back, with a reason of fraudulent usage of a credit card. At that time, they now have been the victim of a crime and should report that crime to their local PD. She came, clearly sort of crazy, but had enough money to pay for a whole week, had her ID, and it wasn't a blacklisted address. She's short, old, buzzed hair, crazy eyes, came in barefoot. But despite the clearly crazy, manager had no procedural reason to refuse her, so he checked her in and said we'd keep an eye on it.Entitled shiny alcoholics. I had a guy check in and make a beeline for the pantry. He bought himself 3 beers. Ok. 5 minutes later he was back and bought another. Alrighty then. No trouble. I can't sell alcohol after midnight. The guy comes back after midnight, this time with a friend, and they start grabbing beers out of the pantry.Tale actually FROM the front desk. Long time no see y'all! We have a rogue FOM on our hands so prepare thyselves. When I first started here we had an FOM on his way out, I …Called a guy to pay up for his wife's furniture. He shows up a day later with a nicely dressed woman; they look over the charges and pay the bill. A few days later I see in the newspaper this guy's mugshot and that of a woman. He slaughtered his wife, but she wasn't the person who was with him when he paid that bill.I disagree, for example say to book 7 days its $350. That is 50 per night and to book 5 days its $450. That is 90 per night. A guest just wants to pay $50 per night but only wants to stay for 5 days so they book it for 7 days and effectively gets the rate to 50 per day and now they plan to leave on the 5th day.Researchers think high blood pressure is the most common cause of a rupture. Higher blood pressure makes blood push harder against blood vessel walls. Situations that can increase blood pressure and lead to a brain aneurysm rupture include: Ongoing stress or a sudden burst of anger or other strong emotion.1.My General Manager didn't talk to me at all once I announced that I am leaving the hotel to head my career into Sales. He gets really personal and salty once people starts leaving his property and blacklist anyone who does. I knew it was going to happen to me too since I knew that he did it to everyone who left.Feb 20, 2022 · Tales From The Front Desk Private group · 40 members Join group About Discussion More About Discussion About this group Guests… reservations… requests… Share your front desk stories! This group is for sharing, venting, laughing, networking and navigating the world of hospitality. Private Only members can see who's in the group and what they post. A good remedy for heat burns is cold water, changed frequently. Since you work in a hotel, grab an ice bucket, about 6 ice cubes and fill it full enough with water to submerge what's hurt. Change the water every 15 minutes for an hour. Thankfully, it's not too bad. Well, shortly after FOM calls on his day off to tell FDS that we are increasing their nightly rate by $128, nearly double their negotiated rate. The guest happened to be in the lobby and waived FDS over after the call to show her the lovely messages FOM was sending the guest. WELLLLLL apparently FOM borrowed $200 from the guest previously, and ...stories from the front desk of hotels/hostels/and others in the hospitality industry. A place where people from the hotel (mostly) industry can come and share the stories of the things our guests do and say that make customer service the hated job that it is. Non-hotel front desk stories welcome, so long as the tale involves a front desk.About 2 years ago, maybe a smidge longer, I could pop over the state line from where I live (our gas prices are much higher, state line is a couple miles away), and I could fill my small car, and add an extra 4 gallons (there was a trick) for less than $20 on E.260 votes, 53 comments. This is probably the third time since I’ve started at my job that someone has asked why they were charged so much money and…This happen to anyone else? I started in the hotel business at a big franchise hotel, Lets call it shirriatt, a friend referred me. Anyways i lasted 3 months and I will go ahead and explain why it was such a short time. It was October 2022, and it was my first day, I was a front desk agent and also a pt night auditor on weekends. It was merely ...I've been a member since 1973. I work front desk at a campground that is part of a group we'll call Ten Hundred Pathways. We are currently very hard to make a reservation at, unless you call the front desk directly. I'm almost always able to get guests in. This summer we have one guest, hereafter to be referred to as Lemon-Faced Lady (LFL for ...The desk is staffed by myself (AGM) 6-8 shifts per week, the GM 2-3 times per week, and the executive housekeeper 2-3 times per week. As if things weren't already bad enough, one of those rather new front desk agents is extremely unreliable. She has missed at least one shift every single schedule in the last two months.Out of nowhere, someone from the first floor's window yelled at the dog to silence it and the dog actually listened. That's how we found the owner. The guy had brought his dog with him, but decided to keep it outside. He had told it to stay sitting in the shadow, outside the view of the front desk, and then went inside and bought the ticket ...The Groom Tale. Settle down with a beverage and nosh, it's a long one. Once upon a Time in the pre-pandemic period, in a city center Luxury Collection Hotel (LCH), there worked a small but spunky NA, yours truly (YT). YT is a woman of experience and classy appearance, accustomed to dealing with people in all walks of life: collars of white or ...For some reason the kid always loses keys too, like we have to make him one every day. So I had enough, he ran up to the desk and asked for a room key. I've been dealing with you a week now, I know what room you're in, but he proceeds to talk to me like he's never seen me before in his life.Check in, largely goes just fine, but mom is paying for the room, and gets testy with me when I ask for her ID, since daughter's name was on the reservation. "Well, I already gave my ID when I checked in" "yes, but I was not the one to check you in. This is just to be sure". She give me her ID, all goes well, and I go through the usual song and ...Well, shortly after FOM calls on his day off to tell FDS that we are increasing their nightly rate by $128, nearly double their negotiated rate. The guest happened to be in the lobby and waived FDS over after the call to show her the lovely messages FOM was sending the guest. WELLLLLL apparently FOM borrowed $200 from the guest previously, and ... r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk: A place where people from the hotel (mostly) industry can come and share the stories of the things our guests do and say …260 votes, 53 comments. This is probably the third time since I’ve started at my job that someone has asked why they were charged so much money and…I love arguing with guests about fees /s. again, obligatory sorry for the formatting i'm pretty mobile app bound until i get a new pc or laptop. anyway I'm on the night audit; it's the only one our owner/GM owns and he always says when someone wants to cancel after the cutoff time (6pm) we need to call him and let him know the situation ...People have seen too many movies. They think “hotel” automatically means valet, bellhops, concierge, restaurant, and 24 hour management, etc. Most leisure travelers don’t know what select service means and think they’re getting a deal. They might be, but they also need to temper their expectations.One patrols the hotel, the other sits at the back door, which is serving as our main entrance while construction is underway. But this is a first for me. Dialogue edited for clarity. Dramatis personae in order of appearance: Me, your narrator. BLS: guy in blue suit impersonating a bodyguard. I disagree, for example say to book 7 days its $350. That is 50 per night and to book 5 days its $450. That is 90 per night. A guest just wants to pay $50 per night but only wants to stay for 5 days so they book it for 7 days and effectively gets the rate to 50 per day and now they plan to leave on the 5th day.OnQ has a system where it will look at your no shows and availability and will set up a system to be overbooked so you can get that clean fill status. You can override the number they overbook you by but its a "feature". Check the alternate room type settings in the echeckin dashboard.stories from the front desk of hotels/hostels/and others in the hospitality industry. r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. A place where people from the hotel (mostly) industry can come and share the stories of the things our guests do and say that make customer service the hated job that it is. Non-hotel front desk stories welcome, so long as the tale ...We started walking down to the room and as we leave the lobby we hear the unmistakable sound of heels on the lobby tile. We turn and see Mr. Businessman walking with overly dressed Hispanic lady, with heels and a short dress. My brother nudges me and whispers, “bro, that’s a hooker”. 6 am rolls around and we see him leave on the camera.by JennFoogle. I wasn't even here bro? I wasn't even in the country! Thank god we have better managers now because the old ones were the worst managers ever! Because of covid housekeeping lost a lot of employees due to fear of getting sick so front desk agents would help out with laundry. Well..help out eventually turned into do their job.lol. I'm just picturing the GM of some hole in the wall on the side of a highway with a tall sign advertising rooms for $39.99 reading this and bubbling over with a smug sense of pride. Practically running over to their only front desk computer to open that saucy file. 8 days ago.You'd have to use really pure water to rinse otherwise mineral will dry on the mag strip and potentially harm the doors sensors. You should invent a device that sanitizes a lot of cards at once, patent it and sell it to hotels and any other company that uses some kind of key card system.How Dare You Not Remember ME! I normally work the PM shift at a 150 room hotel in just outside our downtown area. We average 20-40 check ins a night. One evening a lady, let's call her Joy, arrives to check in. She gives me her name and it's not on the reservation list. I check digital check ins -- not there.If you book a 100% prepaid non refundable reservation then you get what you paid for. However, if you book a reservation that holds a certain xcl policy say 3 days or 7 days, etc that is different. Yes the hotel will have a regular xcl policy but there are always certain circumstances like 95% of the country is having flt issues or a snow storm ...I let him know a room had suddenly opened up and we were able to get him in for tonight. He comes back in, we get everyone checked in properly, and just like that we're saved from a potentially bad review. He came down about an hour later just to let me know how grateful he was. To him it was an actual miracle.10-Apr-2014 ... guest feuds, ghost dogs, strange phone calls, and outrageous complaints, More Tales from the Front Desk is packed with stories from a small-town ...So it wasn’t uncommon to see helicopters land on the pitch and park there for a hospital visit. What’s uncommon though was during the middle of a baseball game. A helicopter landed it and created a huge dust bowl to disrupt the game. It was a funny sight watching the mayhem happening from a distance.Is the eclipse bringing out the crazies? We've had a huge rash of crazy people at the hotel lately. One of my co-workers things it's the eclipse and I tend to agree with her because it's way worse than usual. Just this past week we've had: A lady yelled at me and another manager calling us racist and insisting she was going to have us fired.When the owner who is a friend of mine asked for his ID he called her a racist and had to be thrown out. Tonight though took the fucking cake. Bobby came into work about the time I was about to go to lunch. If the rumors are true and he's living in a bush, it was showing. His pants were down around his ass.As far as I know Booking.com has fairly standard procedures. If the card declines, you mark this on the reservation on Booking.com's extranet and they automatically send an email giving the guest 24 hours to provide new details. If no new details are provided, the hotel can then cancel the reservation after 36 hours.The mans room is totally fine btw. The price on his confirmation is CHF 230.00, exactly the same amount we have in our system. So it is just the womans room that seems very fishy. Anyways, thanks for some input and ideas and I will keep you updated once I hear back from the woman.Freaky Hotel Guests. This post is referring to people who try to get front desk staff into their room for perverted reasons. A couple days ago, my friend was just telling me a story of how some person was trying to coerce them into their room by leaving them their key card. She then left a note the next morning with her contact information.A couple at a hotel insists on room changes, but the hotel staff, unable to accommodate their requests, eventually resolves the issues, leaving their future ...Fake Corporate : r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. by savannap18. So last night was a pretty slow night, nothing too busy. Around 5 AM I receive a call from corporate, but you see the problem with that is the hotel I work at is an independent property. We are the one and only so we don't have a corporate office.You'll get no sympathy from me, Part 2. Part 1 Here. Sally has earned some sympathy. She checks out tomorrow because she doesn't have the money to stay at our hotel any longer. Nobody will rent to her because she has the eviction on her renters history. Plus, she told another hotel employee that she had a roommate who not only stole some of her ...Give me my refund!!! Hey second time poster in the group. ( just a rant) I (19f) work for a very small hotel. With new management. Well I just got a call from a really angry man who said we owe him $160 as a refund and sat there for 5 minutes screaming about how im going to get him a refund. Witch I explained only managers can do.r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk • No, you can't leave your dog alone in your room. No, trying to guilt trip us and then threatening to take your business elsewhere will not change our minds.793 votes, 68 comments. Long time no post, and it’s been great. I like to post about my most horrific moments, my therapist says writing about these…Welcome to the wonderful, wild world of r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk! What was your favorite story out of these?!Watch the first video in the series HERE: 👉 http...Working at a large, downtown convention property a regular call girl would stroll through the lobby with her rollie bag. She was dressed in a fitted business suit with a short skirt and very high heels. She would wave at the front desk, go upstairs, do whatever and then wave again as she departed. Never caused any problems.Wife gets caught cheating. This incident is from when I used to work at a motel in Alabama about 10 years ago. So please pardon my recollection. Some woman who had a reservation came to check-in and at the time of check-in, she made some small talk with me and said that she was waiting for her aunt. I saw her a few hours later standing near the ...Well folks, I am officially leaving the Front Desk two weeks from today and honestly not a moment too soon with the mask mandate in my state. I understand why the mandate is in place, but it really truly sucks that low wage service employees are being expected by the government to enforce it at all, but especially after dealing with all of the jerks during the state wide shut down. I ...You didn't understand the scam. The fake website took their info and card, charged them an exorbitant amount, then made a pre-paid reservation through Excelsior with the scammed person's info and their own card. It only worked because there was a real reservation made. So, no, you're not pulling any fast ones.The bill mentions that California law specifically forbids fraudulently calling a critter a service animal. CAPC §365.7. $1000 fine, six months in jail. Granted, the law is mostly for people trying to sell fake service dogs, but it's not saying that it's not about people trying to bring pets where they shouldn't... Main Things I Seem to Run into. So I work at a hotel and I've been working here for about 9 months now, before this I worked at restaurants as a waitress so I'm all too acommated to the assholey people. NEVER in my life have I seen such whiny people, now we're a bigger corporate hotel in the middle of BUM FUCK OF NO WHERE.This is intended to turn off the electricity to the shower for maintenance, or if it breaks. There is no need to use it normally, you can just turn off the shower at the shower and that will turn the heater off. However, lots of people don't seem to understand that, and turn it off unnecessarily. Got to use my favorite comeback for a jackass. There's a concert in town tonight. Which usually means on my shift I will have more than the usual (most of the time zero) number of jackasses, drunk or otherwise, on my night audit shift. Our hotel has a front parking lot, and a back parking lot (just as big) on the other side of the hotel. But I have been coming to this hotel for 3 years! 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It can also mean "farmer," derived from the Gujarati word pat or patlikh, and is often assigned to the owner or tenant of a piece of land. There used to be a shit ton of hotels owned by Patels, hence the scam. Now that someone at your property has fallen for the scam, expect calls like that to increase for a while.. Jully lov onlyfans
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NEVER in my life have I seen such whiny people, now we're a bigger corporate hotel in the middle of BUM FUCK OF NO WHERE.Night Audit Story…. Ok, so this is my first post! And since I’ve become a night audit about 10 weeks ago, this is my first real weird evening. So, it starts with a remote control not working. Nothing too crazy, I go upstairs reprogram it all good. Then, at about 1:34 in the morning, right as I begin my night audit, I noticed that I have a ...How I quit my last hotel job. The last hotel I worked at was an absolute train wreck. If you don't believe me, I highly suggest you check my post history for the one called tonight We ruined someone's wedding. It is just one of many amazingly stupid and messed up things my hotel did. So, for context, my manager refused to hire new staff and ...This last tale is mostly just an annoying coworker that either intentionally or unintentionally makes my job harder. This coworker is the last of the previous batch that was hired under old management that was using the hotel as a front to sell drugs and get money from pimps, (long story) and her work ethic hasn't changed under new management. One patrols the hotel, the other sits at the back door, which is serving as our main entrance while construction is underway. But this is a first for me. Dialogue edited for clarity. Dramatis personae in order of appearance: Me, your narrator. BLS: guy in blue suit impersonating a bodyguard. Entitled shiny alcoholics. I had a guy check in and make a beeline for the pantry. He bought himself 3 beers. Ok. 5 minutes later he was back and bought another. Alrighty then. No trouble. I can't sell alcohol after midnight. The guy comes back after midnight, this time with a friend, and they start grabbing beers out of the pantry.by JennFoogle. I wasn’t even here bro? I wasn’t even in the country! Thank god we have better managers now because the old ones were the worst managers ever! Because of covid housekeeping lost a lot of employees due to fear of getting sick so front desk agents would help out with laundry. Well..help out eventually turned into do their job. If you see an online price, book online. SERIOUSLY. : r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. by Shyam09. If you see an online price, book online. SERIOUSLY. Some random lady (RL) calls. RL: "Hi! I'd like to know the price of one room for tonight." Me: "I have a non-smoking King size for $95 plus tax."Oh wait, you’re Karen Blind. : r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. Is the DND sign invisible to you? Oh wait, you’re Karen Blind. So I haven't been working at this hotel for a long time, and I'm pretty sure this happens all the time but I'm still shocked that a grown woman (a Karen ofc) would actually be this dumb. Thoughts after 6 years at the Front Desk. Hello fellow colleagues of the Front Desk. This is probably going to be a long post, so TLDR at the bottom. I landed assbackwards into the Front Desk some 6 years ago I believe. Initially, I got my masters degree in some super sexy unpronounceable sciency thingy with ZERO job application and opportunities.Best advice I can offer is to not crack/lose composure; the minute you lose your composure, you've lost the situation. Stay behind the desk (or within the view of a security camera if there isn't one covering the desk) so there is a barrier and video record of the interaction. I've had guests, scream/spit/reach across the desk at me, but I just ...If it's like our hotel, you pre-paid through Expedia so we do not have your card. Expedia will debit your account the amount in full at the time you book and when you arrive we will need a card to put a hold on for incidentals (parking, charges to the room, damages, etc). We do only $25 per day on your card upon arrival.I told her not to worry about it, I was there for a week, an hour or two wait wasn't gonna kill me. 10 minutes later the head of housekeeping was walking by and saw me sitting there with my luggage, turned to the desk and said "You didn't tell us it was him!". My room was ready 15 minutes later.But I asked... First of all, thanks to everyone in this sub who constantly shares their delightful stories of guests, night shifts from hell, and the occasional feel good story of a manager sticking up for someone. You guys made me see we're not alone, and that the audacity of some people knows no bounds. I've worked in several hotels ranging ...PhantomPhanatic9 • 3 yr. ago. Stayover service for stays shorter than a week is one of the most snobby things, and it shows in a lot of guests. Yes, sometimes housekeeping might miss something and you need to remedy it, but no one really needs their room cleaned and beds made after one night in the room. 8.Answer a phone, talk to the person in front of them, make a room key, kick a bum out of the lobby, email a credit card authorization form, balance the house, do a bucket check, and remain smiling. Not to mention the front desk agents dressed up like hockey moms with a anger management issue. Expert mode: hockey moms that have shown up to check ...He is spooked by me, but approaches the desk. He explains he just got released from jail and needed a place to stay until our bus depot opened at around 6 AM. He is from Michigan and has nowhere to go. The poor dude looks no older than twenty or twenty-one years old, and his story tugs on my heart.I check her confirmation. There is the price for the room CHF 290.00 (the same price I have in my system as well) but then also a "Service Fee" of some sorts CHF 110.00. So in total she was charged around CHF 400.00, but all I see in my system are CHF 290.00. So I log into the Spooking.com Extranet and the price for the room is CHF 290.00.One patrols the hotel, the other sits at the back door, which is serving as our main entrance while construction is underway. But this is a first for me. Dialogue edited for clarity. Dramatis personae in order of appearance: Me, your narrator. BLS: guy in blue suit impersonating a bodyguard.May 28, 2023 · Welcome to the lobby of a hotel, where folks working the front desk have all had to deal with some ridiculous behavior. These stories were compiled from Reddit's r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk subreddit, and let's just say that some deal with entitlement, some deal with unfortunate smells, and some deal with shady guests. At the end of the day, though, the moral of all these stories is to respect the ... When a once in a lifetime worldwide convention descended upon my city at my first GM job, our rates at the little 100-room fixer-upper of a hotel jumped from $50 to $350. Regulars and locals alike accused us of price-gouging and Robbery.How Dare You Not Remember ME! I normally work the PM shift at a 150 room hotel in just outside our downtown area. We average 20-40 check ins a night. One evening a lady, let's call her Joy, arrives to check in. She gives me her name and it's not on the reservation list. I check digital check ins -- not there.I love arguing with guests about fees /s. again, obligatory sorry for the formatting i'm pretty mobile app bound until i get a new pc or laptop. anyway I'm on the night audit; it's the only one our owner/GM owns and he always says when someone wants to cancel after the cutoff time (6pm) we need to call him and let him know the situation ...Welcome to the lobby of a hotel, where folks working the front desk have all had to deal with some ridiculous behavior. These stories were compiled from Reddit's r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk subreddit, and let's just say that some deal with entitlement, some deal with unfortunate smells, and some deal with shady guests. At the end of the day, though, the moral of all these stories is to respect the ...From the other side of the desk. So, about 2 weeks ago, I was traveling a couple hours away from home to attend a conference in a field I do consulting in. This conference was at a Schmilton (hope I obscured that properly) in a very specific part of the city where I was. I was so excited to attend this conference, and this would have been the ... stories from the front desk of hotels/hostels/and others in the hospitality industry. r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. A place where people from the hotel (mostly) industry can come and share the stories of the things our guests do and say that make customer service the hated job that it is. Non-hotel front desk stories welcome, so long as the tale ...Try any beginner video that focus on stretching hips and leg muscles. 30 - 60 minutes, three times a week and my foot pain disappears. When I slack off, the pain slowly comes back. 1. MaidOfClarity • 1 yr. ago. I've had 5 people try to check in during my shift so far, which is only 2 hours done.You'll get no sympathy from me, Part 2. Part 1 Here. Sally has earned some sympathy. She checks out tomorrow because she doesn't have the money to stay at our hotel any longer. Nobody will rent to her because she has the eviction on her renters history. Plus, she told another hotel employee that she had a roommate who not only stole some of her ...Roughly, 30 minutes later one of the cops returns. Detective has called a second time. Cop goes up and comes down, once again, finding nothing wrong. Things seem to quiet down for a while, but two hours later (roughly 3:45am) a third cop arrives. Detective has called once more, and the cop has heard from his fellow officers of our Detective guest.One has to wonder if these front desk agents are the biggest heroes of all these days… especially if you look at this collection of tales from the front desk. Keep …In order to meet your posting guidelines, I'm going to share a story from the land use front desk. 😉 (I'm remembering this from a few years ago, so forgive me for paraphrasing the events.) Shortly before closing (of course), a woman rode up on a bicycle, came into our local government office and got in line with the last-minute crowd. As I'm ...Out of nowhere, someone from the first floor's window yelled at the dog to silence it and the dog actually listened. That's how we found the owner. The guy had brought his dog with him, but decided to keep it outside. He had told it to stay sitting in the shadow, outside the view of the front desk, and then went inside and bought the ticket ... In order to meet your posting guidelines, I'm going to share a story from the land use front desk. 😉 (I'm remembering this from a few years ago, so forgive me for paraphrasing the events.) Shortly before closing (of course), a woman rode up on a bicycle, came into our local government office and got in line with the last-minute crowd. As I'm ... Some do: with people you have reason to trust. A friend of a friend, not so much. But the people you have reason to trust usually number about, uh, four, against 7.5 billion others. For some reason the kid always loses keys too, like we have to make him one every day. So I had enough, he ran up to the desk and asked for a room key. I've been dealing with you a week now, I know what room you're in, but he proceeds to talk to me like he's never seen me before in his life.Thoughts from the Front Desk. I'm on Day 5 of a 7-day stretch at work and I'm ready to eat this computer I'm typing on. Since me staring at the time isn't making it go any faster, I thought I'd be semi-productive and type out the thoughts I've been screaming in my head. For added fun, there will be no context, but anything you're curious about ...Entitled bridezilla gets kicked out the day before her wedding. A few notes before I begin the story. This occured almost a year ago near the beginning of the pandemic at a large resort hotel/casino with many amenities and services, including multiple wedding chapels. My mom has worked there since it opened, and this story happened to her.The place where tourists are decent people who stay in hotels. But decent locals stay in their houses (unless they burn down). The locals that check into local hotels are the ones who are there to do drug binges, cheat on their spouses, engage in criminal behavior, etc.Most of the time, the students will put their room numbers in the delivery app, and the driver will just bring it up. Sometimes, the driver doesn’t have a room number, so they’ll just drop it off at the desk the student to then quickly grab from me and shimmy away. This time…. Was different. One of the students ordered a large quantity of ...I seriously hate this industry. Where do I even begin. I work full time at the front desk at a certain M brand hotel out of convenience. I live a block away from the hotel I work at, so I save a lot of gas money avoiding having a job I have to drive to, plus I can leave 5 minutes before my shift and clock in still with time to spare.u/TalesFromTheFrontDesk-ModTeam. Premium Explore Gaming. Valheim Genshin Impact Minecraft Pokimane Halo Infinite Call of Duty: Warzone Path of Exile Hollow Knight: Silksong Escape from Tarkov Watch Dogs: Legion. Sports. NFL NBA Megan Anderson Atlanta Hawks Los Angeles Lakers Boston Celtics Arsenal F.C. Philadelphia 76ers Premier …If you went to University and are wondering where your tuition money went…. So I’m one of the concierges at a very high level hotel in a major east coast U.S. city. We’re talking 400+ a night even on the slower weeks. Like anyone working the desk at a high end place I have tons of stories about the ballers, frauds, and wannabes that ...First proper encounter with a real stalker, I think …. I’ve dealt with people I suppose could be deemed stalkers before like the odd crazy GF who spotted a BFs car in the lot etc. However, I received a call a few nights ago that had all sorts of red flags going off and left me very, very uncomfortable—even frightened and certainly unnerved.Researchers think high blood pressure is the most common cause of a rupture. Higher blood pressure makes blood push harder against blood vessel walls. Situations that can …Part of it is that people are taking shorter vacations and passing up on booking the vacation rentals like VRBO and Airbnb and opting to stay in a hotel instead because it’s a shorter duration vacation. tell them that the President of Freedonia is visiting, and he brought his entire staff with him. stories from the front desk of hotels/hostels/and others in the hospitality industry. A place where people from the hotel (mostly) industry can come and share the stories of the things our guests do and say that make customer service the hated job that it is. Non-hotel front desk stories welcome, so long as the tale involves a front desk.Hotel staying expert trying to get free room. This is kind of long and not anything extremely exciting. Something I felt like posting anyways. So for the past two weeks I've been running breakfast and the front desk. Our breakfast lady has gone MIA. Now we don't just have pastries and cereal for breakfast, we have to do a full hot breakfast ...Read the email. Check in is at 4. We’ll have your room ready by 3, perhaps earlier, but it largely depends on how busy we are. Check out is at 11. This week I had one person show up at 8:55 and another show up at 11:11, walk to the fro t desk and tell me “I’m here to check in” not ask, tell me they are checking in 5-8 hours early with ...Researchers think high blood pressure is the most common cause of a rupture. Higher blood pressure makes blood push harder against blood vessel walls. Situations that can …Freaky Hotel Guests. This post is referring to people who try to get front desk staff into their room for perverted reasons. A couple days ago, my friend was just telling me a story of how some person was trying to coerce them into their room by leaving them their key card. She then left a note the next morning with her contact information.Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.Night Audit Story…. Ok, so this is my first post! And since I’ve become a night audit about 10 weeks ago, this is my first real weird evening. So, it starts with a remote control not working. Nothing too crazy, I go upstairs reprogram it all good. Then, at about 1:34 in the morning, right as I begin my night audit, I noticed that I have a ...Family uses Employee Rate. (Sorry for the shotty grammer and typing. Im doing this on my phone during my night audit shift.) So as most of you FDA's know, certain Brands now allow parents and siblings to use the Employee rates, where as parents/siblings paid a little more back in the day now your parents get the same rate as you.Stories from a Long term Hotel Guest. Few years ago, I lived in a hotel for work purposes, for three and a half months. I was polite to all the workers, and left a raving review that called out people for their amazing service. A lot of these stories on this sub resonate with me, because I saw a lot of the fuckery you guys unfortunately deal ...Edit: I forgot to mention he phoned a couple of weeks ago asking about road closures, it was me he spoke to. He said to me at the desk that he phoned a few weeks ago and the guy (me) told him he booked a balcony room. You should've seen his face when I said yeah it was me you spoke to, I didn't confirm a balcony room 🤣.She'd just let him in to stay in her room, and I already had a sneaking suspicion that these folks shouldn't be rented to. "But I have a different ID than [this city]," he protested, not that I cared. Rules were rules, and especially now that he was arguing me about something I couldn't control, I was getting annoyed.The good news is that incidents like this are rare. The bad news is that they do occur. I've worked at my current property for 11+ years, and we've only had one issue, a wallet that had been turned in to lost and found by a gust had not been claimed in a few days, and also had not gone through the proper process, anyway one of the Night Auditors decided to take …I was surprised because I said nobody was in that room and he said "oh yeah I booked online and came in and grabbed a key". "I'm a travel agent and just assumed you could check in on line". I just stood there trying to comprehend the absolute stupidity of this guy. He thought it was an online check in.r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk. A place where people from the hotel (mostly) industry can come and share the stories of the things our guests do and say that make customer service the hated job that it is. Non-hotel front desk stories welcome, so long as the tale involves a front desk. Retail employee?Okay so interesting predicament. Today we had a reservation come through online and when my coworker pulled up their profile it showed that they were on our do not rent list. Looking at his profile comments and our previous incident logs we really couldn’t figure out why he was on the do not rent list. We don’t really have a procedure for ...I am the front desk manager at a privately owned motel. I just had a woman call saying she couldn't get out of her room. She calls 10 times in 10 minutes freaking out. . Arracacha, Vex 5 unblocked games 911, Boltor riven, Unit 5 progress check mcq ap biology, Stu barstool sports, Blow dry bar boynton beach, Bags wow wotlk, Shuaiby livestream video, Gta online ufo halloween 2022, Tulsa county inmate information center, Toy story alien headband party city, Tiktok room aesthetic, Spicysweetone, Tina jones cardiovascular shadow health subjective, Remove eufy doorbell to charge, Playa miramar, Roblox funny image id, Murfreesboro apartments under dollar1100.