‘Get bent, Janet’: Hotel customer attempts to rent a room with absent mother's credit card, employee flags her but she tries again the next day

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    "But no other hotel has EVER had a problem with this before!!" Ma'am. I highly doubt that.
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    So Janet comes in that night with her husband and young teenager. Everything is going fine, I have her ID and I'm adding her information to the reservation. And then she hands me the credit card.
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    There's a reason we ask for your credit card before we give it back and have you insert it in the machine. We need to check the name on it to make sure it's yours. It would be negligent for me to let you run any random credit card without checking it against your ID. That should be obvious.
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    But Janet hands me this credit card, and lo and behold, it doesn't have her name on it. And it was a woman's name, so it obviously was not her husband's card. I double checked the name against her ID just to make sure it wasn't her middle name, since some people go primarily by their middle name. Nope.
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    I politely ask Janet if someone has an ID that matches the name on the credit card. She immediately gets defensive and says, "that's my mother's card, and she's paying for the room."
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    "Is she here with you right now?" "No." "Then I'm sorry, but I can't use this card." "No other hotel has EVER had a problem with this! Nobody ever threw a fit about it before you!"
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    I don't think I'm the one throwing the fit here, but okay, lady. "If she has an email address, I'm happy to send an authorization form for her to fill out and return along with a photo of her ID so we can use that card."
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    She does that thing where she scoffs and looks around like the situation is unbelievable before saying, "I am NOT doing that. No hotel has ever had a problem with this before." "Okay, if we don't have an authorization form, I'm unable to use that card. Do you have another one?"
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    She rolls her eyes and digs. through her wallet before pulling one out and tossing it across the desk. So of course I, in turn, toss her mom's card across the desk towards her in the same fashion. ¯¯\(")/ Two can play at this game,
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    This card did have her name on it, and I watched carefully as she stuck it in the machine- just to make sure she didn't switch it when I gave it back.
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    She grumbled about how ridiculous it was as she went to her room. Her husband never said a word. Her teenager looked fed up with everything lol. And I had a feeling that this lady was a vindictive little so I put a note in her reservation warning my coworkers not to change the card on file because it wasn't hers.
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    And guess what. She comes back in the morning and tries to switch the card to her mother's. My coworker, having seen the note, asked if it had her name on it. This lady explodes about how unfair and ridiculous it is and how no hotel has ever done this to her before. Get bent, Janet.
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    She was middle aged, so I'd have to say that her mom is probably pretty old. And the way she kept saying "no hotel has ever done this before," made me think that she'd been staying in hotel after hotel on her mom's dime.
  • 14
    Oh no, poor Janet can't financially exploit her elderly mother. Whatever will she do now.
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    u2125mike2124 1d ago . "No hotel has ever had a problem with that before" Then you can leave and go. to the other hotel.That didn't have a problem with you trying to commit fraud.
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    E TimesOrphan · 1d ago Well done - its always something to me to see people get off when they get called out for their shenanigans. Security protocols are in place for a reason. We don't pull them out of our to hurt people; they're there to protect folks.
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    People who rail against these policies are either cheating, lying scum bags who deserve the runaround....or they're oblivious to how unsafe they're being. And if they make a scene, well, that says far more about them than it does about us or our place of business. Kudos to you OP
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    QuestshunQueen • 1d ago You made the right call. People can be so entitled, especially with things they don't have to be responsible for.
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    No_Party_6167 • 1d ago My parents have offered to buy me a room before. So they put cash in my bank account so I could do so... ...you know, like legitimate people would do.
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    • vape-o 1d ago The lies these people tell!. I don't know whether they've been staying at Joe's No-Tell Motel or what, but here at Cryatt we require your ID match you, and the name on your CC match your ID. Period. The End.
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    remarkablewhitebored 22h ago It's a familiar refrain from the obvious push back - "Nobody else has had an issue with this!" Okay then, you should've booked one of THOSE hotels then. The trick is there are no other Hotels...
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    weliketoruinjokes • 1d ago Janet = Karen, and I bet pops and teen are as done with her as you were.

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