This is a test...

[jedikuonji]

...by the SC broadcasting system.

We got a guest comment a little while back:

"I left my roomservice tray in the hall and when I checked on it an hour later, it was still there. This is one of many service tests I perform at every hotel I stay at to see if the service is good. Clearly you need to work on your tray clean up efforts. I'm disappointed that such a nice hotel has this kind of low quality service."

Any other hotel types here have to deal with "testers" like this?

[blas]

Customers at the grocery store who would stand and watch every item you bagged, then make you undo it and do it their way.

Those people need to go to the stores where you bag your own fucking groceries.

Bonus: One claimed to be a manager at another grocery store, who was going to use my "poor bagging skills" as an example for her new hires.

How about I use your old ugly face as a lampshade?

[Dark Psion]

When we had store meetings at the Hardware store, Boss#2(the sister) almost always had a "horror story" of bad customer service from other stores she had shopped at since out last meeting.

One time we were having a working lunch planning our plant purchases and she went to get us some local BBQ. She spent the rest of the lunch and most of the day criticizing the 15 minutes of customer service she received.

[Pixilated]

*snip*

How about I use your old ugly face as a lampshade?

Or a break-in deterrent ... "This is what guards our store. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED."

People like this really need to get a life. Or a job.

[bainsidhe]

"I left my roomservice tray in the hall and when I checked on it an hour later, it was still there.

Back when I worked room service, each tray had a little note reminding you to call down when you were done with your tray. Guess someone doesn't follow instructions.

[Marmalady]

This is one of many service tests I perform at every hotel I stay at to see if the service is good.

Must be nice to have so little to worry about.

[Sandman]

Bonus: One claimed to be a manager at another grocery store, who was going to use my "poor bagging skills" as an example for her new hires.

I would have asked her which store so I can examine her "superior" bagging skills.

[LillFilly]

I think my old hotel had a notice about trays going out a certain times, so they made rounds after the meals to collect. If it wasn't out before a certain time, it didn't get collected! People were sick pigs though; you wouldn't believe what they'd leave on the trays!

[XCashier]

People were sick pigs though; you wouldn't believe what they'd leave on the trays!

Considering other stories I've read on this site, I probably would believe. I'm guessing: every type of bodily fluids/wastes, used condoms, ABC gum, used needles?

Yes, people are assholes. Wish the courts were allowed to make people who do this shit work for the company they inflicted themselves on for long enough to learn their lesson.

[ParkingWitch]

Wish the courts were allowed to make people who do this shit work for the company they inflicted themselves on for long enough to learn their lesson.

So until the heat death of the universe?
Because you know they just don't learn.

[Sapphire Silk]

Must be nice to have so little to worry about.

My very thought.

I'm just happy when I can afford to stay in a hotel that has room service.

[blas]

Well, I have a friend who was fired from her pizza job because the GM/DM (whichever) used to pretend to be someone calling the store to make sure they were doing their spiels and suggestive selling correctly.

Sorry, but any company who has the extra time and management to have people for all intents and purposes, prank call the store just to see how people answer the phone, need to do a good housecleaning of the excess management.

For the record, I had a manager at my brief stint at the truck stop who would do the same damn thing, to see how we answered the phone. However, he did it ON the clock from his own phone in the office!

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

"I left my roomservice tray in the hall and when I checked on it an hour later, it was still there. This is one of many service tests I perform at every hotel I stay at to see if the service is good. Clearly you need to work on your tray clean up efforts. I'm disappointed that such a nice hotel has this kind of low quality service."

Really? There are people who are more concerned about how quickly someone comes along afterwards to pick up a scrummy tray?

As opposed to how quickly the food came to them, what the quality of the food was, the cleanliness of the rooms, or any of the other things that *I* would consider a metric of how good a hotel was?

Really?

[Food Lady]

Just choose to feel sad for someone who has so little meaning in his life. It's sad he has to do tihis in order to feel important.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Any other hotel types here have to deal with "testers" like this?

Not a hotel type, but we used to have people who'd buy something and then return it the next day to make sure we did their return quickly and courteously instead of poking along and being surly because they were taking money from us, not giving us money, or something.