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  • Yep - more hotel horror stories

    It has been about a month since I posted anything - so here are some more stories from working night audit at various hotels.

    One New Year's Eve we had five (yes, five) domestic disturbance calls. We literally had to call the cops five times for fights. One guy was actually dragging his girlfriend down the hall by her hair. Another couple got into a fight in the elevator and he pulled her earing right out of her ear and she dropped the tub of beer she was holding.

    This famous sportscaster from a famous ESPN show (no names) asked me for a new key to his room and got mad because I carded him. He literally pointed his finger at his picture on the program and said do you know who I am? Well, since I don't watch your show - apparently not. He should have been happy I was so security conscious.

    We had this one woman who was literally insane. She used to think that little men were following her. She would call the desk and ask for security. I was told that when they got to the room she would tell them the little men were in the air vents and even in her tv screen. She was not too teribbly sucky - just annoying and amusing.

    One night I took a phone call around 1am and it was a real douchebag calling in a bomb threat just because a football team was staying at the hotel. He thought it was really funny to say "I fucking hate Ohio State - there is a bomb in your building" WTF - we had to call the cops even though it was an apparent joke.

  • #2
    WTF! Joke's on the bomb-threat guy, the police can and WILL trace that call back to his stupid ass. Pay phones are nearly obsolete, so the moron likely called from her personal phone. Yuck it up, dumbass.
    A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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    • #3
      Don't you know me

      Add me as another person who only watches sports once every four years. That is it, period. If you are famous in any way because of sports, I don't know you from a hole in the ground.

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      • #4
        Even if I were able to ID a sportscaster/other "celeb" from memory, I would still card them. Why? There are people out there who are capable of making damn good disguises...If they find out where a given Personage is staying, they could just disguise themselves as said person and access their room....Of course, that assumes they don't have a good fake ID >_<
        "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
        "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
        "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
        "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
        "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
        "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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        • #5
          Quoth bainsidhe View Post
          WTF! Joke's on the bomb-threat guy, the police can and WILL trace that call back to his stupid ass. Pay phones are nearly obsolete, so the moron likely called from her personal phone. Yuck it up, dumbass.
          and i'm really hoping they do this cos that's a federal offense, not a misdemeanor


          do you know who I am?
          Sounds like he didn't know who he was and wanted to know why his photo was on a pamphlet.

          but seriously I wouldn't have known either. I don't watch regular TV let alone special sports networks.

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          • #6
            I do watch sports and there are some sportscasters that I would say, "Yes I do know who you are...and that is why you are getting carded...". although I imagine their non-TV self doesn't look quite like their TV self.

            And the bomb threat guy.....I hate Ohio State too...but not enough to get myself thrown in prison over.

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            • #7
              Quoth figgyx View Post
              do you know who I am?
              "Hello, Local Psychiatric Hospital? Yes, I think we've got one of yours here, it appears he doesn't know who he is. No, no, it's no trouble, we can keep him here until you send someone to get him. Have a nice night!"
              Now, I'd like to digress from my prepared remarks to discuss how I invented the terlet...

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              • #8
                Self important celebrity needs to learn how easy it is these days to make up a real looking pamphlet with a inserted photograph. And impersonators would just love to get into his room, wouldn't they?

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                • #9
                  Quoth Comechatcha View Post
                  And impersonators would just love to get into his room, wouldn't they?
                  To fondle his frillies and so on?
                  Now, I'd like to digress from my prepared remarks to discuss how I invented the terlet...

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                  • #10
                    Quoth earl colby pottinger View Post
                    Add me as another person who only watches sports once every four years.
                    I don't watch sport that often. I'm most likely to see a sports show if I'm walking past a pub - and then out of the corner of my eye.
                    Seshat's self-help guide:
                    1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                    2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                    3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                    4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

                    "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth EricKei View Post
                      Even if I were able to ID a sportscaster/other "celeb" from memory, I would still card them. Why? There are people out there who are capable of making damn good disguises...
                      And there's such a thing as professional celebrity look-a-likes.

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                      • #12
                        I once worked as a receptionist at a rather large company's headquarters (not in the main building though) and I was required to ask the employees to show me their badges as they came past my desk, or else sign in. However, I was given a one page sheet of faces and names of the really high muckety-mucks at the company and was told NEVER to ask them for ID. Gee, you'd think they could be bothered to do the same as the other employees, it wasn't like they were going through a metal detector.
                        "I was only LOOKING, I didn't mean to enter my card's CVV and actually ORDER! REFUND ME RIGHT NOW!!"

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                        • #13
                          Quoth BeenThereDoneThat View Post
                          I was given a one page sheet of faces and names of the really high muckety-mucks at the company and was told NEVER to ask them for ID. Gee, you'd think they could be bothered to do the same as the other employees, it wasn't like they were going through a metal detector.
                          Agreed, it's stupid, tho maybe for a different reason. Kinda like how I LIKE getting carded when I present a credit card, it would disturb me if a company made it easier to gain access to the more secure areas (read: many things an exec would have access to) *without* having to show an ID. All it would take is a good disguise and they're in...Besides, having an exec actually follow the rules everyone else is bound by is generally GOOD for morale. Makes them seem a little less inhuman.
                          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                          "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                          "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                          "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                          "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                          "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                          Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                          "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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