The strangest thing a guest has ever asked me, and this has happened recently mind you. Was to witness the signing of power of attorney, for her soon to be hospitalized mother. They asked it so haphazardly that I was a bit shocking. I apologized and mentioned that if I signed I would be signing as a representative of my company. She seemed to understand, sort of.
I've been in hospitality for quite a while and have noticed some really cool things. Someone, back in the day when I worked room service actually answered the door naked, he was really really ugly if you want to know, He had me leave his tea on the bed and he closed the door. I remember he didn't even leave me that big of a tip.
Working corporate events is also very interesting, everyone always seems to dress the same, or drink the same beverage. Some companies only seem to drink ice tea, others diet coke or regular coke. Some a certain kind of wine, stock brokers and venture capitalists right out of college invariably prefer beer, while those that are more senior prefer wine, once they start feeling comfortable doing business lunch after business lunch and casually talking about million dollar deals, they start to know their wines and can taste the difference and what makes a good wine.
All the executives of Victoria Secret look the same, they also hold their note pads in the same way, one leg bent over the other. This was back when I worked for the Essex House, we hosted a Victoria Secret world executive meeting or something. That's what I was struck by the most, the conformity, how much they looked the same. I still to-this-day remember, they all have a different variance on the same Channel suit, a mole somewhere on a very pretty face, they all looked like they could have just come out of the yearly catalog or been on the cover of Vogue, they walked like supermodels.
Some families also look the same; you can sometimes even seen their dysfunction during the ordering process, or in how they treat us the wait staff and the managers.
Sometimes I like this job, only because of the variety of people.
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