Male Karen throws his dirty towel at front desk employee because housekeepers had left for the night after a busy weekend: ‘We're short staffed’

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    Finally Gave in to Unprofessionalism
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    This past weekend has been insanity. 3 weddings and several conferences, so my hotel has been at capacity every night for three nights. Because of this, housekeeping has had to turn over almost every room each day, which is an insane amount of rooms anyway but especially because we're short staffed.
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    I'm chilling at the desk at around 7:30pm. Housekeeping kicked and got all stayovers done and rooms cleaned by about 6:45, so way quicker than I thought but also many left way later than usual. We also had to call in 5 housekeepers to meet the rooms demand which was insane.
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    This man comes down and is immediately angry. He says that no one came to clean his room today and that he needs towels and the beds made and the room cleaned. I apologize and let him know that I am more than able and willing to grab him more towels or any small items he may
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    need like extra soap, toilet paper, etc but that we no longer have housekeeping in house and I am not trained to clean rooms so I am unable to get him that service tonight. He is angry and asks why we don't clean the rooms every day. I explain to him that
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    housekeeping does a light touch (taking out trash, replacing towels and shampoo/bodywash and a few other things) every day, but that they only do deep cleanings such as making beds and vacuuming upon request.
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    He goes "well I'm requesting". I explained to him that stay over service technically ends at 4 so he would have needed to request it before then. It states this on the website. I also let him know that we are short staffed at the moment and apologized for the inconvenience. He says that we
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    should keep housekeeping as late as needed and that they should be staying longer. I kindly explain to him that labor laws would not like that and that they stayed longer than usual today
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    anyway and they are people with lives and needs and they need to go home. He grumbles, but goes away once I get him new towels and give him my managers business card so that he can contact her to complain.
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    Ten minutes later, he comes back and essentially throws a dirty towel at me across the desk and says, "this was on my bed, I don't need it because it's dirty". I take the towel and he tells me that he took pictures of the unmade beds so that he can post them to every
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    review site once he leaves. At this point I've had enough, so I say "that's fine". I know that was unprofessional but at that point I didn't give a He starts going off on me that I should care more about customer service and that I should do better and that I'm not fit for my job.
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    It turns out that his room was indeed serviced and they did the usual light clean, they just didn't make the beds. Why this man wanted beds made after one night of sleeping in them is beyond me. He also did leave a
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    review, which I closed without responding to because it is so ridiculous. I can't believe people actually think it's okay to act this way. Actually, I can believe it and it just makes me lose faith in humanity.
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    vanessaj333 • 17h ago you should have kicked him out after he threw a towel at you
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    SkwrlTail · 14h ago My go-to when folks threaten to tell my manager - basically trying to use the threat of authority to get what they want - is to agree with them. Confuses the out of them.
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    "Yes, please complain. We keep telling them that guests don't like the policy, but they won't listen to us. Do we have your email on file? You'll get a survey when you check out. Corporate actually pays attention to those..."
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    ManicAscendant 14h ago • Unprofessional or not, once he threw a towel at me, I would give him my coldest stare and ask him, "What on earth made you think that you could come here, throw things at me, and still be welcome at this property? You have ten minutes to gather your belongings and be out the door, or I'm calling the police."
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    160 dreaminginteal • 13h ago "You're requesting? Fine, I will set that up and the cleaning crew will clean your room when they get in at 5 in the morning."
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    Cheesewagon20 • 16h ago Hilarious I had a extremely similar situation today. Man said we didnt service his room (Hes a stayover) but on the HK report it says we did. Says he wants money off by his checkout time tomorrow or hes gonna be
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    "even more upset" I only care because its going to be my co worker who has to deal with his ignorant instead of me. Oh his rate for 3 nights was like $60. Hes a Silver Honors member too so i guess he thought that means he should be treated extra special.
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    lady-of-thermidor . 16h ago I can see for guests staying multiple nights that HK might not need to come in every day. But if HK is going to come in for a light touch, making the bed, emptying waste paper, topping off toiletries/in-room coffee makers and fresh towels ought to be included.
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    Various_Jelly20 OP. 16h ago Yeah sure, when we're not insanely slammed housekeeping-wise. I actually see it the opposite way. What's the point of making a bed when you've been in it for one night. I feel like you'd need the bed remade if you were going to be there for a week or two but not just two nights.

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