Do Hotels Snitch to your Employer?
So this happened when I was interviewing for summer analyst positions. I was attending a superday out of my home city and was placed in a hotel near my superday location. I flew in the afternoon/day before and started cramming for the superday. A few hrs in, I was super stressed and reached the "fuck this whatever happens happens" moment and decided to enjoy the city. I went out, treated myself to a nice dinner and drinks, and might have also visited a questionable club (might have met someone and brought them back as well).... realizing that I was in no shape for my superday, I started looking for pick me ups and was successful. I returned late at night back to the hotel.
Next day my superday went great and I did not have any problems relating to the team or answering any technicals / behavioral. I thought I was going to get the offer. However, no one responded in the timeframe they said they would...followed up few time and then after almost 2 months was rejected and they did not give me any explanation as to why, even after I asked one of the interviewers directly.
I have been thinking about that interview experience and feel that one of the hotel staff must have seen me stammer in the lobby in the middle of the night and reported it....when I checked in they did ask if I was there for an interview as the company I was interviewing at books their hotels a lot.
Has anyone had a similar experience or know of anyone? Am I being paranoid or do these things happen? Going forward would it help to just say that you are an employee for that company, not an interviewee, if the hotel staff asks? other tips?
Jeffrey’s hotel did LMAO.
explain?
Jeffrey Chiang? You don't know the story?
Casinos, hotels and motels are very discreet about these kind of things. Don't ask, don't tell. As long as you are not breaking the law (selling/buying drugs on their property, solicitation, destroying the room, etc) you are good.
Honestly, they shouldn't have asked you those things in the first place but maybe the dude was just curious.
Let's say that one is breaking the law, then they would report to the authorities and not to your employer right?
Bigger hotels and chains (or franchises) have their own security staff. So the first call for any disturbances like that would go to them. In the first instance they'd just kick you out. If the criminal complaint is severe enough they have the right to call the authorities. Nobody would do this for a bit of pot. But if you are dealing heavy loads out of your room - yeah, they'd call the police on you.
For solicitation, I would have to guess a bit since I have not encountered it before. If the lady is a "known offender" then they might just kick her out. Several hotels have a strict policy that only the registered guests are allowed to occupy the room (especially properties in Las Vegas do this to avoid solicitation, and other hotels do this after 9/11).
In smaller motels I would say almost nothing is going to happen unless someone is getting murdered. Stayed at the L Motel in Flagstaff (Arizona) during one of my road trips and the night before someone was killed in there. You can imagine that the entire place was swarming with cops. Short of a homicide, I'd never seen any law enforcement in smaller properties. If you can, avoid anything that resembles a cheap motel; there are some sketchy folks in those places.
source: extensive business travel and I have spent about 40% of my life in hotels (it is more common to live out of hotels in some countries rather than getting an appartment).
Summer analyst interviews are a total crap shoot. When I was at a mediocre bank we ended up rejecting applicants who were awesome - it’s a lot of politics / fit / flat out randomness
If by "pick me ups" you mean you copped a bag...I'm pretty sure they just noticed you were coked out during the interview. Trust me its always more obvious than you think.
Dude what? No. You were probably just sniffing a lot of looked strungout. I've worked with people that were always doing coke and it's pretty easy to tell.
Hotels are in the business of discretion, so that wouldn't be an issue. My guess is you probably looked a little strung out or had odd behavior (Jesus man, why would you do this??)
So to clarify, my superday started at noon the next day and I only did it the day before / the day I flew in. On the day of my superday, I waked up early, had a good workout, etc. and I don't think I was strung out at all. I remembering applying eye cream and other men's facial care to make sure I don't look off.
As to why I would do this, it was a moment of weakness like cookies and milk and chubby cheeks with thick lips.
>I started looking for pick me ups and was successful. I returned late at night back to the hotel.
You made it sound like you were went looking for "pick me ups" at night, after you had spent time drinking at a questionable club and brought home a lady of the night. How late were you out? Sounds like you had quite the night.
Not hotels directly, but have heard of kids getting reported/flagged by travel agents. A while back this kid made a big thing about NEEDING to stay at the Four Seasons when scheduling an interview and berated the corporate travel agent to the point that she reached out to HR/recruiting about him.
Carlson Wagonlit did the same on a colleague, they called HR and informed them about "some incident" nobody else knew about.
Unless you were assaulting someone or were being aggressively belligerent in the hotel, they really do not give a fuck about you
Story time about a hotel visit as an Associate. I get aggressively motion sick to the point of having a hard time being a passenger in a car. One day I had a horrendous evening flight from LA-NYC with tons of turbulence. Threw up in the plane bathroom and in the sick bags in front of the seat in business class. Got off the plane, threw up immediately in the trash can outside the gate. Took the taxi because I was too fucked up to figure out where to go for Uber. Unfortunately, my taxi driver had no suspension and was gunning it / braking and swerving in between lanes despite my pleas to drive normally.
I held it in from JFK all the way to Midtown and arrived at the Trump hotel. They opened the taxi door and I tumbled out of the car, throwing up right in front of the hotel staff and a smattering of late night onlookers. I was visibly, violently shaking at this point from throwing up so much and I felt chills. The hotel staff calmly took my bag, got me some bottles of water and medicine, and accompanied me to my room, not missing a beat or batting an eyelash.
I kept thinking, "These guys have seen it all before, they are pros." Anyway, hotel staff are awesome and I left a good tip and put in a call to management on their behalf.
Hotels don’t give a shit that you’re out late partying and bringing chicks back... that’s half their business in big cities (80% if you’re in Vegas or Miami). Unless you were asking around for “pick-me ups” in the lobby or disturbing other guests / staff they have other things to worry about. If the hotel didn’t kick you out there’s no way they went out of their way to report you to the employer... and if your ding was behavior-related they probably would have told you that.
Of course, being out late getting fucked up with “questionable women” and “pick-me ups” is a recipe for garbage interview performance. I’m guessing your condition was a lot more obvious than you thought
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