Shopping a hotel and the A/C isn't working

So I'm one my last night of a route. I'm in a regional chain hotel for a shop and the bloody air conditioner isn't working. I can't call for maintenance because I'm entering reports...including part of the report for this hotel. Going to be a long, hot night.
The A/C not working will be mentioned in the report, along with why I couldn't complain about it at the time.

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Oh, wow, what a pain..... Good luck getting through a hot night of entering hot reports in a hot room. Yeah, all you'd need would be to call for maintenance, and the guy who comes to fix the a/c sees you reporting on the hotel! Not good.

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.

I don't understand. Couldn't you put away all the paperwork for all but one shop, work on it on your laptop while you waited, then when he knocked, put the paperwork in the drawer and close the lid on your laptop? Or is there some other reason you can't work until he knocks, put away your stuff, and answer the door?

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

I would not suffer like that......

Unpack your suitcase, arrange your paperwork in order, place in the suitcase and call the maintainence guy.

The worst thing that can happen (or best thing) is they move you to another room, right?

Something seriously wrong with the AC, warrants you a new room

And even if they recognize your report later as the guy with the broken AC, you aren't returning to that hotel anytime soon, right?

Hope the place isn't on bedbugregistry.com, James Bond. That and no A/C would be enough to make me check out of the place.

I had 15 shops on the route today, any with video uploads. The time factor for the reporting doesn't allow me the luxury of not working on reports.

James Bond 007.5 Wrote:
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> I had 15 shops on the route today, any with video
> uploads. The time factor for the reporting doesn't
> allow me the luxury of not working on reports.

That's what I "got" from reading your first post....

Hopefully it's cooling down with the onset of night. I only wish being too warm was a problem up here--it's turned very, very chilly over the last few days!

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.

So work on reports without the AC! Good grief. Lots of people do not have AC. Sorry but not feeling a lot of pity in this economy. Yes you should have it if you paid for it but things happen. Write it into the report and move on!

Wow. Hard core.

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Not trying to be mean James, but you don't want to jam yourself up with so many shops, that you can't leave any room for problems like *errors, delays, broken AC's or car problems*....

Always have a "what if" approach to your routes.

And, as any of us shoppers know, you can encounter serious traffic jams, broken equipment, closed locations..which means "s*it happens.".....

Well, it would be perfect for those hotel shops where they need a scenario with a problem! The instructions suggest dirty tub drain or the remote does not work, but this is so much more realistic.

CANADAMOMMY Wrote:
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> So work on reports without the AC! Good grief.
> Lots of people do not have AC. Sorry but not
> feeling a lot of pity in this economy. Yes you
> should have it if you paid for it but things
> happen. Write it into the report and move on!

Um, that's exactly what James was saying he would do--work without the A/C, write it into the report, and move on.... Not sure why you appear to be taking him to task.

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.

nanabelle Wrote:
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> CANADAMOMMY Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > So work on reports without the AC! Good grief.
> > Lots of people do not have AC. Sorry but not
> > feeling a lot of pity in this economy. Yes you
> > should have it if you paid for it but things
> > happen. Write it into the report and move on!
>
>
> whoaaa nice mouth.......

Something else we might note is that how serious or unpleasant the lack of air conditioning or heat is depends on the area of the country where you live. In Canada, the lack of air conditioning would probably not be a big deal although I am betting the lack of heat would be. I have heard that many in Canada do not even have air conditioning. In the South US, where James is and in Texas, where I am, the summer temperatures routinely reach 105 degrees with high humidity - killer temps. On the other hand, only rarely is it cold enough here to worry about freezing to death, so heat is a lower concern.......although in Canada I'm betting not having heat would be pretty serious.

When it gets too cold, we just line our igloo walls with beaver skins and goose feathers. A Timmy's coffee, a poutine, and some back bacon covered in maple syrup warms our bellies. No heat? No problem, eh?

If you don't want to call maintenance, take your ice bucket, fill it 10 times into the bathtub

James,

I've filled in shops from a Five Guys before (reports that weren't for a Five Guys, that is). This is probably too late to help you, but in future, just sit there like you've got every right to be doing what you're doing and keep the screen turned away from the maintenance fellow. If you're doing video uploads, find a way to casually mention that you were at a training session today and the guys in your home office are going to LOVE what the speaker suggested about [topic]. Then say you've gotta get back to the old grind because paperwork waits for no conference.

And don't sit where your screen will be reflected in a window or seen through a window from the outside.

I don't suppose CM ever considered the windows in many hotels don't even open. So no AC, no air circulating at all. And then there is the minor issue of him having paid for it. Just how would you react if you paid for a service and someone told you to suck it up?

I realize this is actually a thread started some months ago. I had the same situation on a casino hotel shop and did work on my reports while waiting on maintenance, just keeping paperwork out of site and closing the laptop when they arrived. Even with video uploading all you have to do is minimize all your windows and nobody is the wiser. As long as you are there in the room with them, what opportunity are they going to have to snoop.

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No kidding, AustinMom. The oilfield workers have a "cooling tower" they can go in in case they think they are close to heat stroke, preferably before then. They wear flame-retardant coveralls, boots and hard hats. I break out in a sweat during the summer just walking from a building to my car!

Jaymo- Do you go to sugar shacks?? I saw them on the Travel Channel. lol I've always wondered how good the maple syrup on a stick was.

Mr. Bond, I'm sorry that you have no A/C. I lived with it for weeks because my twins' father would not pay to get it fixed. Temps reached over 90 degrees inside. Luckily the basement was only around 80. Ugh. I hope you get some relief soon!

Y'all do realized you're replying to a thread from like last November right?

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

lol! Wow...that's funny. Didn't pay attention to the dates. Saw the no A/C thing and immediately thought of summer right now because it is so hot. Glad you lived through it, James!

Duh.

LisaSTL Wrote:
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> I realize this is actually a thread started some
> months ago.

You shouldn't duh yourself, apparently that's offensive and yourself might get upset with you for offending it.

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

I already am upset with myself and highly offended. So much so it may be time to log out of this forum before I offend myself again.

Go to front desk and ask for another room. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.

You mean there's someplace where AC is required in November? Wow... remind me to *never* live there!

Also I was gonna say the same thing ~ how the heck did this all get resurrected all of the sudden?! And why?!

Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.

Oh no, there are resurrectionists here?

HA!

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