Hotel guest who isn't behaving properly says, "Do you know how I am?" and makes the front desk employee discover a scam that other employees were doing for months: 'Needless to say, both were fired a few days later.'

"Do you know who I am?" The worst phrase to say ever as a customer.

Front desk employees at restaurants, hotels, and even theme parks are used to the phrase "Do you know who I am?" and 90% of the time they are no one important. Entitled customers like to use this phrase to get away with something that they did that was wrong, or to get free stuff. This almost never works because if the employee doesn't know who you are, then you are not that important. This is not only used by influencers and out-of-work actors nobody knows, but is also used by owners' supposed friends and family. This last one is funny because almost always the owner will explain that they in fact do not know those people. But sometimes this phrase is used by customers that are actually related to someone from the restaurant or hotel, but that doesn't always mean a good thing.

In this Reddit story, the front desk employee stops a couple of children who were playing in the hotel lobby and disturbing other customers with all the running and screaming. When he stopped them to check on which room they were in, he was hit with the famous "Do you know who I am?" He didn't, so he asked again, only to discover he was in fact related to someone in the hotel staff. The problem was that his last name was not in the room's check-in. When the family of the boy was called, they realized they had paid in cash for a room that wasn't available and to someone that was not really who they were supposed to pay. This kid, with his awful way to get out of stuff, made the staff realize the scam that had been going on for months, in which two hotel employees were renting out rooms to family and friends and pocketing the money.

If this kid behaved and answered correctly, or didn't even run in the lobby in the first place, no one would have realized the scam that was happening behind the scenes. I believe his family members weren't happy when they realized that if it wasn't for this incident, they would not only still have their jobs but also be able to continue with the scam. Anyway, the real fault is obviously in the hotel workers who tried to steal from their work.