#2 Worst Hotel Arranged by Company
Not a complaint, just a way to release the
stress we buyers experience during our limited budget buying trips,
through drawings, photos, words..... Or should I really file a
complaint for unfair treatment? Well sometimes I'm an extremist
when there should be some changes and nobody are able to do anything
under the umbrella of safety. And there are times that I'm humble
to receive what I've already got from this good life.
OK, I let my flame died off and examined the residues only after I came back from NY so that I have a fair judgement without the physical and emotional add-ons. The verdict: bureaucratic company built up without a conscious awareness of the process, a monster comes out of collective individualism. No it is not serious, but when you can see the future and what can't be changed between now and future, you are downhearted. The fact: many times I get bad hotels from my business trips, doesn't seem like anybody cares, and it is entirely due to budget issue when it shouldn't be. Every summer I get to go to NY for the gift show, summer is high season for travel, hotels get expensive, company has a budget, then every year I go to bad hotels whenever there is high season. Unless I look for alternatives myself nobody cares in this company. And it is not only summer! Winter also.
Yup, I have the luxury to go many place to find great stuffs for our great customers, but the unconscious treatment I got from company is killing me. I know nobody intentionally put me in bad hotels, but the fact is, when there is an unflexible rule about budget, there is mistreatment, and the "great product for great customer" vs. "hotel-with-blood-sucking-bed-bug-6mmx4mm-big" doesn't add up. Again the fact: I stayed 7 nights in Regency Inn & Suites in NY with 4 nights out of air conditioning, no fan was available, bed was infested with blood sucking bugs (imagine I found that out the 2nd night of the 7 nights stay) and I couldn't change room coz it was fully booked and the floor was so dirty and the floor shakes when you flush the toilet and the reception cheated us to go to a USD65 limo instead of what she claimed a USD45 yellow cab with USD10 hotel charge to the airport and ....... I don't need these.
OK, I let my flame died off and examined the residues only after I came back from NY so that I have a fair judgement without the physical and emotional add-ons. The verdict: bureaucratic company built up without a conscious awareness of the process, a monster comes out of collective individualism. No it is not serious, but when you can see the future and what can't be changed between now and future, you are downhearted. The fact: many times I get bad hotels from my business trips, doesn't seem like anybody cares, and it is entirely due to budget issue when it shouldn't be. Every summer I get to go to NY for the gift show, summer is high season for travel, hotels get expensive, company has a budget, then every year I go to bad hotels whenever there is high season. Unless I look for alternatives myself nobody cares in this company. And it is not only summer! Winter also.
Yup, I have the luxury to go many place to find great stuffs for our great customers, but the unconscious treatment I got from company is killing me. I know nobody intentionally put me in bad hotels, but the fact is, when there is an unflexible rule about budget, there is mistreatment, and the "great product for great customer" vs. "hotel-with-blood-sucking-bed-bug-6mmx4mm-big" doesn't add up. Again the fact: I stayed 7 nights in Regency Inn & Suites in NY with 4 nights out of air conditioning, no fan was available, bed was infested with blood sucking bugs (imagine I found that out the 2nd night of the 7 nights stay) and I couldn't change room coz it was fully booked and the floor was so dirty and the floor shakes when you flush the toilet and the reception cheated us to go to a USD65 limo instead of what she claimed a USD45 yellow cab with USD10 hotel charge to the airport and ....... I don't need these.
I just took the picture of the bug with my ruler and
printed them out in Duane Reade at 10pm as 4x6 and send both our Life
division director and HR director as postcard. Asked them to
imagine sleeping with blood sucking bugs every night with vivid image.
Personally it is no big deal, I went to worse ones in Europe. But company sent me to buy great stuffs right? It is a big contrast that nobody cares and we are not students looking for cheap discount hotels, can anybody do something about it? The #1 worst hotel I ever experienced with this company: In Frankfurt, January, no heat, no hot water, sleeping with my down coat under thin bed cover. That's not fair.
Yeah no big deal, this bug was crawling on my back and caught by me. My colleague during the same trip got lucky, he only found 2 fast running bugs on his hotel bed the day he checked out, saved him for 7 nights of sleeping horror.
So how could I sleep? No I couldn't. I put bed sheets on the floor to walk on bare foot, I laid towels on chair to avoid contact with smelly chair cushion, I was naked and sweating coz there was no air conditioning. I wrote postcards to ask for sympathy, I drew and paint to get me focused on good things, I drew and paint for family and friend.
Personally it is no big deal, I went to worse ones in Europe. But company sent me to buy great stuffs right? It is a big contrast that nobody cares and we are not students looking for cheap discount hotels, can anybody do something about it? The #1 worst hotel I ever experienced with this company: In Frankfurt, January, no heat, no hot water, sleeping with my down coat under thin bed cover. That's not fair.
Yeah no big deal, this bug was crawling on my back and caught by me. My colleague during the same trip got lucky, he only found 2 fast running bugs on his hotel bed the day he checked out, saved him for 7 nights of sleeping horror.
So how could I sleep? No I couldn't. I put bed sheets on the floor to walk on bare foot, I laid towels on chair to avoid contact with smelly chair cushion, I was naked and sweating coz there was no air conditioning. I wrote postcards to ask for sympathy, I drew and paint to get me focused on good things, I drew and paint for family and friend.
I took photos of
Strands Book store and printed them out, sent as postcard to my son,
and as a reminder to myself: "It's time to read". "Book" is
literally in my son's name when I named him, so I got some friendly
free books from Steve Light - a children book illustrator and we had a
great dinner in NY, and I'm gonna lure my son into reading great stuffs
that may distinguish him from the rest of the followers.
Comments
Hello!! Patrick
First, my english is not good.
Second, I like your Blog very much, and your arts.
I love stationery
That's sucks man. When ever we go for business trip, we booked the hotel by ourselves as possible as we can, otherwise ...
I still remember the business trips I went around 2 years ago. All are 4-5 stars hotel in Taipei, as least I can have a good sleep after long night work.