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23 June 2007 @ 10:00 pm

STFU

Dear Valued Guest,

You just checked in to room 211. There's no way you could possibly know this because I was in my 'care bear with ADHD' mode, but I hate people sometimes. Seriously. I realize I am one of the whitest - and by that I mean
palest - people ever to live, but that doesn't mean I'm prejudice. Nor does it mean I'm ignorant. It does not mean that if you call me a prejudice bitch in Spanish I won't understand you. It also doesn't mean that I expect you to apologize for insulting me (because, really, that's expecting too much) when I politely tell you - in Spanish, since it's apparently your language of choice - how to get to your room, where the ice machine is, and at what time we serve coffee in the morning. What it means, sir, is that you are a bastard and yet I still have to be nice to you despite that fact because it's my job. By the way, I am not sorry I was unable to give you the downstairs room you demanded, because YOU'RE TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD, NOT SIXTY! I've one, that's it, one room downstairs left, and I'd rather make you walk up one measley flight of stairs than have nothing downstairs for the lovely elderly couple standing patiently right behind you.

Thanks so much for staying with us! You have a nice night now!

Sincerely, The Front Desk

And this concludes my daily mental breakdown in which I wish I could shoot laser beams out of my eyes, thus ridding the world of one or two more rude people.

Tags: letters to guests, rant, work

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oreadno1 on June 24th, 2007 12:18 am (UTC)

Ah, customers. Don't you wish you could just shoot them sometimes?

Kathy

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i_am_mary on June 24th, 2007 06:28 am (UTC)

Hey Kathy! How ya doing?

And yeah. I was pissed. Especially since the only reason he insulted me was because I didn't give him a downstairs room. *sigh*

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oreadno1 on June 24th, 2007 10:38 am (UTC)

I'm doing okay abnd hope you are doing well.

I had the joy and pleasure (sarcasm intended) of being called a cunt earlier this week by a drunk I refused to sell beer to. He walked into the flippin' door frame when tried to walk into the store! And I thought he was gonna start knocking stuff over in the store. But I'm a cunt because I do my job and refuse to sell him beer. ah, well. Just gotta love customers.

Kathy

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velvetwhip on June 24th, 2007 02:43 am (UTC)

How do you say dickweed in Spanish?

:::hugs you:::

Gabrielle

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i_am_mary on June 24th, 2007 06:35 am (UTC)

Well . . . I don't know. But a few choice phrases/words came to mind. Like Chilito (little dick), Besa mi culo (kiss my ass), or Pinche Cabron (fucking asshole).

. . .

But those were just on the tip of my tongue. I wouldn't actually say them. At least I don't think I would. But he really made me mad.

How are you?

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velvetwhip on June 24th, 2007 02:39 pm (UTC)

I have to file those away...

I didn't know you were working at a hotel.

I'm okay. Thanks for asking.

Gabrielle

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aaronlisa on June 24th, 2007 04:16 am (UTC)

Talk about ignorant.

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i_am_mary on June 24th, 2007 06:37 am (UTC)

Yeah. He gave me hell all night, too. *sigh*

Sometimes I wonder why I work with the public. Really. I'd be much more suited for solitary work in some dark research lab or something.

How're you?

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aaronlisa on June 24th, 2007 07:02 am (UTC)

You and me both, I think. My opinion of most people has sunk to an all time low this year.

Okay I guess. You?

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toimhseachan on June 24th, 2007 07:13 am (UTC)

Ah, the wonderful world of customer service. I'm sure that in a million years if humans are still about people that work in customer service will have evolved lasers that shoot out of their eyes that automatically blast the heads off of customers that are rude.

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blkhawk_is_me on June 24th, 2007 01:15 pm (UTC)

People who stay nice in the face of assholes like that are definitely going to heaven. I know I would have let loose on him.

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purplefeen on June 25th, 2007 04:33 pm (UTC)

Its really funny you posting this.

We were away last weekend and trying to get a hotel room in a town filled with a church convention. The one place that had a room, had 3 actually. One downstairs and 2 upstairs. They wouldn't give hub the downstairs room for the same reason. I was in the car, but he told them his wife was handicapped. They wouldn't budge. Hub took the second floor room just to get a room (because there were other people behind him in line. When he came out and asked if it was okay, I took the key went back in (limping of course and using my cane), threw it in the clerk's face and demanded hub's money back. They were all over themselves trying to apologise and give me the 1st floor room. I'm going to leave out the choice words I had for them, but we didn't take it.

I'm not saying your guy was in the same situation, just sharing another hotel nightmare with you. :)

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i_am_mary on June 25th, 2007 07:11 pm (UTC)

Well, hell. That's a different situation entirely. And, for the record, I wouldn't have stayed there either.

You doing okay?

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mhalachai on June 26th, 2007 05:36 am (UTC)

O_o

I... no words. None.

(Although you should have a tank next to the front desk, in which will be sharks with laser beams on their heads. That would be the best way to deal with these people)

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