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I have a few years experience as a front desk associate. So, not much. I’ve worked at 2 different hotels. The first hotel I worked at had a very very strict policy that hotel staff are not allowed to stay in the hotel as guests.

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 ...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.Yep! When I worked at a big beachside condo in the nineties, we had one clown that would book a room in a fake name, get trashed at the huge nightclub next door, then crawl back and stay in the room he'd rented.The church paid the hotel for the room. Guest thought they would get a refund to them and not the church. It seems like all they wanted was the money and not the room.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.After over 2.5 months on no rain the first rain we got the crickets went crazy breeding. They got EVERYWHERE. It was in the news. The cricket apocalypse is going away but we'll still see crickets lingering around. A guest, on the explore rate, complained of having a single cricket in his bathtub. It didn't make noise so they got peaceful ...As "checking in" is the universal hotel term for the process in which the front desk actual checks you into the hotel, and gives you keys. OG and OL continue to look at me like I'm the one without a brain as I continue to check them in. Meanwhile I'm giving the check in monolog on autopilot, wondering how the hell these people got to their age ...

Every few minutes someone came strolling through the front door with their receipt held high in the air. Some were understanding, but most were not. What would normally take thirty minutes ended up taking nearly two hours. At one point there were five people at my desk and only three spots between them.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 ...This is the story I tell everyone when I explain what it was like working at a hotel. So I worked at an extended stay hotel. There were a lot of interesting guests but this lady took the cake.Haunted Rooms. Ok, so some context. We get a review a little while ago from an anonymous profile who proceeds to give us a bad review about a haunted room. They go on in the review about how a chair moved on it's own across the room and the shower kept turning on on its own. They also tell about the light flickering throughout the night.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 ...But I'm a irresponsible parent. For a change of pace, this story if from the front desk of a medical practice. A woman approached my desk today to sign in for her appointment, everything on fairly routine until she realizes she has a copay. "I have been coming here for literal months and have never had a copay, my insurance" blah blah blah.

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.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.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 ...There are all kinds of scams. -Mr Patel, I'm the owner. -Call claiming to be IT, download this program to the computer so they can access the computer for whatever issue. Do not download the program. The cc scam you experienced, there is also one in which they will ask for a "common last name" to be transferred.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 ...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.

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Typically I tell them they're DNR'd and when they ask why the system pops up with their previous stay and a note saying why. Most of the time I'll tell them exactly why. They fucked up, caused me problems, and if it was bad enough to get you DNR'd, I'm not going to be nice to you. Edit: There has been ONCE where we had a guy that would keep ...I am a front desk agent. I am quite capable of checking three people in, two people out, taking five reservations, answering fifteen incoming calls, delivering six bath towels to room 625, plunging the toilet in room 101, and restocking the supply of pool towels, all at the same time. Yes, I will be glad to call the van driver and tell him to ...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.In this episode of reddit top posts & best stories from r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk: 00:00 : intro00:32 : story104:38 : story213:05 : story3If Your …Status: 4.39 – collecting the bait. Jun 10, 2023. Ascent is a novel that unapologetically revels in itself and enjoys being in its own world without pretense. Completely devoid of cynicism, its infectious joy is one that a reader can really get …

Monday night, cops drop a guy off. No problem, he seems coherent enough to book a room. Problem. He's actually not, and has no money, and the cops just told me, 2 hrs later, he is od'ed in the lobby bathroom.As per my last post I shared with y'all that he so far is just getting written up and that's it. Well I just got a call from my manager that she is indeed firing him now and will have to switch around my schedule a bit for this week because of it. Apparently yesterday she accidentally left her flash drive and usually when that happens one ...This woman screeched. I put the extra letters in again to really drive home how hard she rode that word as it escaped her lungs. She did the whole nine too. She straightened her arms out to her sides and leaned into that screech. Now the money is on the floor, I'm standing there in shock, and she takes a few deep breathes before looking at me ...Our Resident Fuck-Up, Can't Get Right, was WAY too excited to tell me about it when I got back to work. I guess that's fair, considering Sarah's mistake took almost a whole week to fix. And each day since then, she's been at the same level of confusion, because she's allergic to being on the computer.Worked in a sandwich shop, local place. A string of fast food robberies had us a bit on edge. The owner, who was known to be a penny pinching SOB, told us, "If someone tells you to give them the money from the drawer, you give them the money from the drawer.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 makes small talk with me and asks if I am new. I tell him I came from another hotel and he asks which. Decent enough pleasantries for small talk. He then asks me if his room is right out of the elevator. Having been used to my old property, I tell him yes. He says good and is on his way.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.Lost and Found is a courtesy, and a fairly expected one, but not an expense. We actually got $697 just last week for sending a L & F item to Brazil. FedEx billed us by mistake afterwards, but the feeling of hitting the guest's card for the charge was just too sweet. 17.Tales From The Front Desk #1 | Reddit Voiceover - YouTube. Few interesting posts from r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk Video created on: 2022/08/04 Timestamps:00:00:10 …Her statement caught me so off-guarded. "I understand you need to make money by selling us more expensive room, but you have to give people a room they can take shower in." "But you can still shower in the Jacuzzi room." "I understand you need to make money..." "Wait, ma'am.

Hello to all my fellow front desk people! I am finally telling my own crazy story here after a couple months of night audit. I work audit for a 150 room property and we happened to be completely sold out for (mostly) a Morgan Wallen concert in town. It was probably the busiest shift I have had so far. I didn't really get a break from people either buying things from our market, requesting ...

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.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.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.it goes beyond that. if they received a PPP loan they’re required to post openings and interview to fulfill a provision in the contract, but there’s an asterisk in the loan paperwork that they don’t have to hire anyone not fully qualified. so to get as much of that money as possible they’re “hiring” but not actually hiring. source: i processed thousands of PPP loans for a major ...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 ...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. 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.I have a few years experience as a front desk associate. So, not much. I’ve worked at 2 different hotels. The first hotel I worked at had a very very strict policy that hotel staff are not allowed to stay in the hotel as guests.Meanwhile the regular and waged front desk and housekeeping staff don’t get it guaranteed off. Granted, we get holiday pay, but there is a sad kind of irony in people who are in charge of their eSsENtIaL WoRKeRs getting a day dedicated to laborers to relax while those frontline laborers, the ones who do all the heavy work, don’t. 18. camlop ...

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Okay, my first time posting here and it's maybe a bit of a long one. So on the 8th i (F23) worked the afternoon shift at the hostel i work at which ends at midnight.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.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 ... 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.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.At an old property, housekeeping was taking heat for having vacant ready rooms turn out to be dirty. GM assumes housekeepers are being lazy. One weekend, 2nd FD agent shift calls manager stating they are getting sick at desk. FOM comes in to relieve him.The driver arrived with her food. For security purposes, we can't send the drivers up to the rooms, so he waited in the lobby for her to come down and pick up her food. She got off the elevator wearing only a towel. The Dasher was naturally, rightfully, and understandably hesitant to approach her.I alternate between 3 different pairs. I have two pairs of shoes from the Cam Newton collection (retail $140, but you can almost always find sales on them at Belk and such, I got mine on black friday for $13 a pop) and they are actually really well made shoes, with a insole that feels like its memory phone which is great.The driver arrived with her food. For security purposes, we can't send the drivers up to the rooms, so he waited in the lobby for her to come down and pick up her food. She got off the elevator wearing only a towel. The Dasher was naturally, rightfully, and understandably hesitant to approach her.Not only did FD checked him in, this guy called several other couples in to rent on the SAME CARD. When Visa called to say it was fraud, it was to the tune of 7 grand. The police were called, in the end, the only thing the guy got arrested for was for domestic violence for beating his girlfriend. 7.People are generally understanding, if they ask for something simply say they are available at the front desk. If they push, you’re the only one at the desk and aren’t allowed to leave. I would rather have 100 negative reviews than a have a minor sexually harassed or assaulted under my watch. 99.Share your front desk stories! This group is for sharing, venting, laughing, networking and navigating the world of hospitality. ….

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 …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 ...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 ...When she gets back, she tells fully about everything going on with the guests while we are sitting in the office. Someone comes to the desk and she goes out to speak to them. I walk out as well, and lo and behold, Spiderman was standing in front of me.Meanwhile the regular and waged front desk and housekeeping staff don't get it guaranteed off. Granted, we get holiday pay, but there is a sad kind of irony in people who are in charge of their eSsENtIaL WoRKeRs getting a day dedicated to laborers to relax while those frontline laborers, the ones who do all the heavy work, don't. 18. camlop ...The church paid the hotel for the room. Guest thought they would get a refund to them and not the church. It seems like all they wanted was the money and not the room.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.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 ... Talesfromthefrontdesk, Aye hotel I am at bent policy for a week for the red cross on a dozen rooms. We got the proper forms after a while, red cross tends to send volunteers with really no power and we have to go through corporate dodging to get forms for them., 28-Apr-2023 ... To address these concerns, Guest Ban has implemented features to ensure compliance and prevent unauthorized changes to the “Do Not Rent” list., Most people see those and think they will never fall for them, when that is the exact purpose: a self-filtering pool of idiotic victims that will give the human scammer more time on actually viable prey. But targeted attacks rely on the complete opposite methodology. It isn't bulk, but targeted at a specific person., 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. , 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 ..., I have had to explain to friends and family that getting paperwork saying their pet is an ESA doesn't give you carte blanche to bring them any where. Especially when that pet isn't properly trained. When I worked retail some kids brought in a snake around one of their necks and when I told them they had to leave one of the girls gave me an attitude and tried to telling me it was an ESA - I ..., 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 ..., Aye hotel I am at bent policy for a week for the red cross on a dozen rooms. We got the proper forms after a while, red cross tends to send volunteers with really no power and we have to go through corporate dodging to get forms for them., Go to TalesFromTheFrontDesk. MaidOfClarity. In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit. I took up this job around the middle of 2018. I was enjoying my job as a delivery driver, but between not getting many hours and massive income taxes, I felt it was time for a change of pace. So I ended up working night audit at this 2- or maybe 3-star ..., Give the guest a list of cab company phone numbers and let them call one. 104. SergeantKoopa • 1 yr. ago. Years and years ago at the hotel I was at we did once book cabs for guests. One day it came down from on high that we were no longer to do this and instead provide numbers for the guests themselves to call., Had my first experience of a guest screaming at me for something they did. Just had my first experience of a guest screaming at me for their own doing. They were due to check out today and HK went in to the room as soon as they stepped out and it was absolutely trashed and disgusting and smelled of smoke. The housekeeper immediately stepped out ..., Finally got a call from the legend Mr. Patel. I started working front desk a few weeks ago and just finished training so it was my first day working alone at the desk. This afternoon I got a call from a guy claiming to be our owner which I knew right away it wasn’t. He was very aggressive, asking for my name and could I write down a tracking ..., Seeing your name on trip advisor is more rewarding than you'd think it would be. Most large chains offer a sweet employee travel program (for Hilton it's like $40-$50 a night for employees). The cheap room rates actually allow you to travel because you have more spending money. Free food, often., 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 ..., 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 ..., She asked for pricing and it was about $160 for the night, warm weather and graduations and all. As long as her husband said it was okay they’d take it she said, so she was waiting on him to reply back. Then she said she’d had an issue at the hotel next door and I wanted to know what had happened, I thought she meant she’d had a poor stay., 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., Of course NA immediately goes upstairs to investigate the issue. When he gets to the room, he gets handed a towel that was, indeed, covered in feces. Fresh feces. He could smell it as soon as he walked in the room. It was 6 in the morning and housekeeping hadn't even been in yet. He told the guest that while there was shit on their towel, there ..., People recording customer service people as soon as they don’t get their own way has to be one of the worst things about social media. So basically every hotel in the area is fully booked including the one I work at, and I know people must be struggling to find rooms because I’ve gotten at least 3-4 calls/walk ins looking for rooms the last ..., One weekend, 2nd FD agent shift calls manager stating they are getting sick at desk. FOM comes in to relieve him. Next morning, GM and Housekeeping Sup are inspecting vacant …, In California, hourly employees are entitled to a minimum of two hours pay for any work outside of a scheduled shift. This includes being texted or called off-hours even if it's 5 minutes. And if your company is using your personal cell for …, 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. , For a change of pace, this story if from the front desk of a medical practice. A woman approached my desk today to sign in for her appointment, everything on fairly routine until she realizes she has a copay. "I have been coming here for literal months and have never had a copay, my insurance" blah blah blah., Hello to all my fellow front desk people! I am finally telling my own crazy story here after a couple months of night audit. I work audit for a 150 room property and we happened to be completely sold out for (mostly) a Morgan Wallen concert in town. It was probably the busiest shift I have had so far. I didn't really get a break from people either buying things from our market, requesting ... , I know of hotels that will book the taxi/Uber for you and will pay the taxi/Uber themselves. They will charge you double what it costs though. So a $100 taxi that they pay will result in a $200 charge to your folio. Ofc they let you know the price and if you agree you sign for it. You won't get it for free., This story starts off like most others, with me checking in an older "gentleman" with a Santa Claus-like beard, hence his name. We'd had some storms go through, so we had picked up a few extra rooms from stranded travelers from the nearby airport. Santa Prick was one such traveler., 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. , Business trips aka a cheaters paradise. Backstory: Anyone who has worked in a hotel will completely understand this. I have seen so many times people cheating on their SO while on a "Business trip." In two different hotels I worked at, I would have a bellman minimum 2-4 times a week tell me how the two co-workers have two separate rooms, but he ..., 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 ... , My very own tale! I'm not sure how I ended up in this subreddit, because I neither work in the hospitality industry nor do I travel much. The stories always interest me though, so I've stuck around. But I finally got a story of my own! Last week, I was traveling for a work conference. I was in an awful mood - I may be in marketing, but five ..., 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., 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?, I am a museum volunteer. People do come in with genuine donations, but fortunately, we have an off-site archive to send them to. One day when I came in the desk person told me that the previous weekend, a guy had come in with what he insisted was a valuable historic artifact.