Why is it people can act stupid sometimes.

[diabeticman]

I work as a night auditor and last night guess checked in asking standard questions than he asked: "When do the newspapers get delievered?"

I said: There won't be a newspaper tomorrow because of Thanksgiving.

He said: "No you are going to get me a paper! I demand that you get me a paper."

I said: I can't sir. There are no newspapers being printed tomorrow.

He said: You will get me a newspaper or else I will talk to your manager and you will be fired.

I said--handing him my managers business card--I am sorry sir but I can't get you a newspaper.



Some people are going to be demanding like that and than I thought of the workers today. The customer may be right but they don't need to be bullies demanding the impossible.

[Atman]

1. Because it takes special talent to be stupid ALL the time.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Stupid, selfish, and entitled -- that one hit the trifecta!

[SheilaT]

3. Ummm, I've been reading newspapers published on Thanksgiving Day

for many decades now.

Maybe USA Today doesn't have a Thanksgiving Day edition, but basically every single other daily newspaper in the country will.

[diabeticman]

4. The hotel only receive the USA Today and I don't know any newspaper in my area that does come out.

Even if there is one published today I can't leave the hotel grounds on my shift

[SheilaT]

12. If where you live there are daily newspapers, they're being published today.

Of course, not being able to leave the hotel does sort of limit you.

One of the things I do not like about travelling and staying in hotels it that too many of them only have the McPaper, not whatever the local one is.

I did just go to their webset and it's impossible to tell if they had a print edition today.

[Lex]

5. Here are the front pages of newspapers from today

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp?tfp_region=usa

[diabeticman]

7. Again the hotel receives the USA Today. I am not to leave the Hotel property while on shift

THERE WHERE NO NEWSPAPERS DELIVERED TODAY!!! I can't make something appear that wasn't at my hotel.

[Lex]

18. That fact wasn't in your original post.

Hence the confusion by many. Sorry.

[rudolph the red]

6. That's really strange

I have never heard of newspapers taking the day off for Thanksgiving.

[diabeticman]

8. No NEWSPAPERS CAME to my hotel for me to deliver to the guest.

[HarveyDarkey]

9. For many of them, they're not acting

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. I give this a 3 on the "This Happened" Index.

Scale is 1 to 1000.

[diabeticman]

11. What do you mean?

[bettyellen]

13. he was a jerk, but correct that there were many papers being printed.

[diabeticman]

15. That I honestly didn't know and I had no means to get a newspaper for him nothing was deliver today

but about once a week I get someone like that. Last week I had a guy who came in wanting too room and because he was a member of the chain hotel's priority club he felt he could tell me he was only paying $75 per room when in reality our room are going around $120 and his priority membership would have gotten him 10 dollars off the price.

[bettyellen]

19. I know, dealing with the public in any service area is rough, I have been there.

Sorry! I was just saying he probably jumped harder on you because he knew that papers were being published, and didn't
understand other papers were not normally available.
Hope you have kinder guests in your future!

[BlueJazz]

14. Get a piece of white paper. Write on top HOTEL NEWS. Underneath..."Dumb-Fuck checks in room # XX.

[diabeticman]

16. Love the idea but that would have gotten me fired.

[nyquil_man]

17. I just did a spit take.

[LadyHawkAZ]

20. Reminds me of working a beachfront hotel when I was younger

A couple checked in, then checked out the next day. They wanted a refund. The reason? It was raining, and "It never rains in California!".

There's just no helping some people.