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I have worked the night audit shift at various hotels for the last twenty years or so - I won't mention any of the names just in case. In most cases there is nobody from management on midnights so we are on our own when it comes to dealing with the suckiness. So, without further ado, here are just a few of my stories from over the years.
At one hotel I worked at we were hosting a convention of strange roll playing people. On Saturday night I was approached by a gentleman with the group who was mad because he was not allowed to purchase hot dogs in their courtesy suite - probably because it was not negotiated with our sales department. This dude went on a twenty minute tirade insisting that they were always allowed to do this and no mention of sales contracts on my part made him happy. He ended up leaving the hotel over hot dogs.
One night we were approached by a man who wanted to report his car stolen so we called our local police. The investigation on their part revealed that his car was parked in the back of our lot and there were bloodstains on the steering wheel. It came out that he had driven away drunk, crashed his car into the guardrail and came back to report it stolen - all to avoid dealing with the rental car company. He went to jail that night.
Another night a man came to the hotel and told the afternoon shift he was a top executive for the company having a holiday party in our banquet room. He proceeded to go to the bar and charge a 1000 bucks worth of alcohol to his room and then when I got suspicious and called the police he had no way of paying for the booze. He went to jail as well.
My favorite guests are the ones who come to the hotel on a sold out night and when told we have no rooms proceed to go into a twenty minute tirade about it - and then asks if President (insert current presidential name here) came to the hotel we would have a room for him. Uh yeah, we will build a room for the president or just maybe kick out someone else. No means no buddy.
Well, just a few anyway. I am sure I will post some more as they come to me.
At one hotel I worked at we were hosting a convention of strange roll playing people. On Saturday night I was approached by a gentleman with the group who was mad because he was not allowed to purchase hot dogs in their courtesy suite - probably because it was not negotiated with our sales department. This dude went on a twenty minute tirade insisting that they were always allowed to do this and no mention of sales contracts on my part made him happy. He ended up leaving the hotel over hot dogs.
One night we were approached by a man who wanted to report his car stolen so we called our local police. The investigation on their part revealed that his car was parked in the back of our lot and there were bloodstains on the steering wheel. It came out that he had driven away drunk, crashed his car into the guardrail and came back to report it stolen - all to avoid dealing with the rental car company. He went to jail that night.
Another night a man came to the hotel and told the afternoon shift he was a top executive for the company having a holiday party in our banquet room. He proceeded to go to the bar and charge a 1000 bucks worth of alcohol to his room and then when I got suspicious and called the police he had no way of paying for the booze. He went to jail as well.
My favorite guests are the ones who come to the hotel on a sold out night and when told we have no rooms proceed to go into a twenty minute tirade about it - and then asks if President (insert current presidential name here) came to the hotel we would have a room for him. Uh yeah, we will build a room for the president or just maybe kick out someone else. No means no buddy.
Well, just a few anyway. I am sure I will post some more as they come to me.
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