Entitled guest demands a room after being kicked out of another hotel by the police for pulling the fire alarm, front desk employee denies: 'Well, obviously he was not evicted for "no reason"

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  • It's 2:30am, I'm working audit, and I have a guy walk in asking if we have any rooms available. This hotel is right near the beach and very close to a good few bars, it's not unusual to have people come in late on short notice because they partied too hard and realized they couldn't get themselves home, so the fact that he was very clearly not sober didn't raise much alarm for me besides the general mental preparation to deal with someone who might become belligerent.
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  • However, where this man screwed up is admitting that he had had a room at a nearby hotel a couple blocks away, but "the a h le manager kicked [him] out and called the cops for no reason" and details how his dad had paid for a room for him with an authorization form. Immediate alarm bells, nope, we're totally sold out and don't possibly have anything available for the next few days, sorry but good luck finding somewhere elsewhere. He grumbles a bit about me not
  • letting him hang out in the lobby but finally leaves after getting some water. Now I'm curious. I'm sure we all know that hotels do not like to evict guests unless absolutely necessary. There are a half dozen hotels within walking distance of each other in this stretch of beach, so we all have pretty good rapport with each other. Of course my nosy a is gonna call the hotel he was kicked from to learn the actual story.
  • Well obviously he was not evicted for "no reason". Turns out, he was on some manner of dr__s which compelled him to pull the fire alarm on one of the guest floors at 10:30pm, got a warning for it, and proceeded to pull that stunt again at 1:30am. For whatever reason the manager didn't want to evict on the first instance, but having it happen again ped off too many other guests that they'll definitely have to comp some rooms tonight, thus this idiot was kicked to the curb. The auditor
  • only didn't call to warn the other nearby hotels because she saw him leaving with police and thought he got arrested. The fact that he has no payment on hand and had to have his daddy pay means no one in the area is gonna rent to him anyways, but had he not slipped and given me his tale about why he needs a room, I at least would've genuinely tried to help him and go over availability and rates until we hit the payment
  • road block. Oh well, he played stupid games and now he has to deal with his stupid prizes.
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  • DaneAlaskaCruz Some people never take accountability for their actions. Things just happen to them. They get into trouble for no reason. The manager kicked them out for no reason also. The whole world is always against them. This guy should have definitely been
  • arrested and thrown in the drink tank for pulling an alarm not just once, but twice in one night! Firefighters respond to all alarms like it is the real deal, cause you never know it's not until they get there and assess the situation. Getting called out twice in one night to the same location for a false alarm is super annoying and a massive
  • waste of emergency resources. There could be another emergency nearby that they didn't get to respond to or are late to respond to because they are over at the hotel. And they're not as rested and ready to respond to the next emergency. The guy should have been locked up and then charged with wasting resources.
  • Sharikacat Absolutely baffling that an intentional fire alarm pull didn't warrant an eviction.
  • SkwrlTail Yeah, I'll never understand why they play for sympathy that way. I mean, maybe they think we hate our competitors a lot? Or that we're absolutely desperate for guests? Just imagining a grubby Dickensian urchin, tattered cap clenched in soot- stained hands. "Please guv'nor, I got frown out by the cruellest tavern
  • keeper you ever met. Wasn't doin' nuffin', and 'e flings me out into the cold and damp. 'Ow was I s'posed t'know pulling the fire alarm wasn't allowed?"
  • unholyrevenger72 I wish I could put up a sign that said "If the Uber Ride home costs less than a room here, go home"
  • rebelangel Yeah, no hotel is going to call the cops on a guest for "no reason". Total red flag.
  • eure_maum Surprised the cops weren't called when he pulled the alarm a second time. We'd get a visit from the Fire Chief or Assistant Fire Chief. Hit both when our alarm sixteen was malfunctioning.
  • goldfishpaws Wake me up with a fire alarm twice in a night and you wouldn't need to be looking for a bed any more

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