I received a nice Christmas present via e-mail today. It's Chris' account of his very own business travel nightmare.
Not that it's nice that he had a bad experience. What I appreciate is that he was willing to share this interesting story with us.
"I was on a business trip to Memphis. Our office was located across the street from the city dump, which smelled delightful. Told the hotel when I made the reservation that I'd be arriving Sunday night and checking out Friday morning, which is a fairly standard routine.
On Wednesday, made plans to visit a friend who was working in Memphis on a contract. I was going to go straight over his place after work, but decided to drop off my gear at the hotel first. I swiped my card in the door, and walked in to an empty room. My gear was gone. I went downstairs to the front desk and asked about this interesting development. I was told that they had me checking out Wednesday morning. My dry-cleaned shirts, which had been on hangars in a neat row and other items of clothing which had been pressed and neatly folded
upon my initial arrival had been rolled up and stuffed into two garbage bags, which they handed to me.
Were they sorry? If you've ever seen 'Animal House' after Belushi destroys the guitar, and tells the guy 'Sorry', that was pretty much the attitude. Clearly that hotel only hired the best.
I then had to get another room and try to steam and press out all of my clothing for the next day's meeting.
When their management got wind of what happened and realized that I was with one of their largest regular customers they hounded me for the next 3 months with special offers for hotel stays, etc., which I turned down just to annoy the annoying rep who kept calling"
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