This could easily be ripped from the headlines, SVU style. Could Stabler discover that the "Benchmark Hotel" is actually a front for a sex trafficking ring, where young Eastern European women are smuggled into the US and pretend to work as the hotel's cleaning ladies, when in reality they are sad abused hookers? I hope so! They could even get a fey NYC character actor to be the condescending bellhop! Basically it's exactly like "Home Alone 2," but better.
Who cleans the rooms w/ the guest still in it? She started cleaning at 4:30? Not saying she deserved it but the hotel policy seems a little weird. #thehighline
Who says that's the hotel policy? You DO realize that guests can always put up a "do not disturb" sign, or turn the cleaning staff away?
I'm pretty sure the cleaning woman didn't have to force her way into the room to clean if he didn't want her there, but I AM sure that he tried to force himself on her after she said no.
I'm not trying to attack you here, but come on. #standardhotel
@once: I worked at a hotel in college and a very similar incident happened there. If a gues puts up a do not disturb cleaning ladies will go back later in some hotels. At the very least to see if towels were needed. Other times guests will request service. Sometimes its the only time you can get to a room because there are so many do not disturbs and so many guests checking out late that you can barely do anything before the afternoon.
Basically its fairly common thing to be cleaning a room at that time. But it may not have even been that. He could have requested turn down service (no pun intended but only because someone already made it.)
@chickachicka: omg calm down. To clear the air, I believe that when a woman says no, it's no. Period. I was simply trying to say it's unusual for staff to clean a room w/ a guest in it and then I realized by saying this it might be construed as, I thought her actions were suspicious, and so I added, "I'm NOT saying..." In this case, not means not...
I do in fact realize guests can put up a "do not disturb" sign, however, whenever I've forgotten to, the cleaning person always offers to return later and never has suggested cleaning while I'm there. I think the hotel policy might be a little weird - major hotels have a policy about just about everything. A closed bedroom door w/ a stranger? If she acted inside of it, she may have grounds for a lawsuit. #standardhotel
@once: I'm calm, don't you worry about me - I enjoy caps lock for emphasis on occasion. Through clarifying, I was just pointing out that you read into what wasn't a fact of the story (was she in there wrongfully? inconveniencing him? at a weird time?) instead of just reading the story for what it is (he was wrong, no matter the situation).
As @scouts honor points out, if the guest agrees, it's not uncommon for a cleaning to happen with them in the room.
Like I said, I'm not trying to attack you, but just think before you type. #thehighline
@chickachicka: "I was just pointing out that you read into what wasn't a fact of the story"
um, you're reading into my comment by suggesting that I thought other than, "he was wrong, no matter the situation." Read my reply again and digest it this time. #standardhotel
@Cheruth: Do you remember what the hotel's policy was? I'm merely curious. I would imagine that having to clean a room w/ the guest watching would be uncomfortable at the very least, and depending on the guest(s), would make me feel unsafe. This incident raises interesting questions about workplace safety. #standardhotel
@once: I never said you thought anything other than "he was wrong." We'll just have to agree to disagree on the wording of this one then (though I think we're in agreeance about the only important issue: the man holding 100% of accountability). #standardhotel
I trust the errant guest will employ the Costanza Defense regarding sex with the cleaning woman being frowned upon. He's gotta plead ignorance on this one. #thehighline
In retrospect, the Posties should have been worried when they started giving away free copies of the Post with the Journal. If your parent company decides you are worth zero, that's when trouble starts. #newyorkpost
Hell, you want a real voice of opposition, you need a loud-assed, smart-mouthed left-wing rag -- and I mean a real left-wing rag, not like Mother Jones. (spit) I mean, c'mon; if you really think the New York Times is a Leftie paper, you've been living under a rock, like those goddamn' Tea Party assholes.
Seriously, all we've got is The Nation. That goddamn' self-serious tome bores the living piss out of me. And they don't even have a friggin' sports page, f'cripesake. I'd love a Leftie version of the New York Post. They're a nasty, rightist screed, for sure, but I love their attitude.
Didn't you all used to have a nice, loud, smartassed Leftie tabloid up there, long ago -- what was it called, PM, or something? #newyorkpost
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Call me Dick Wolf! #standardhotel
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Jesus Christ.
Who says that's the hotel policy? You DO realize that guests can always put up a "do not disturb" sign, or turn the cleaning staff away?
I'm pretty sure the cleaning woman didn't have to force her way into the room to clean if he didn't want her there, but I AM sure that he tried to force himself on her after she said no.
I'm not trying to attack you here, but come on. #standardhotel
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Basically its fairly common thing to be cleaning a room at that time. But it may not have even been that. He could have requested turn down service (no pun intended but only because someone already made it.)
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I do in fact realize guests can put up a "do not disturb" sign, however, whenever I've forgotten to, the cleaning person always offers to return later and never has suggested cleaning while I'm there. I think the hotel policy might be a little weird - major hotels have a policy about just about everything. A closed bedroom door w/ a stranger? If she acted inside of it, she may have grounds for a lawsuit. #standardhotel
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As @scouts honor points out, if the guest agrees, it's not uncommon for a cleaning to happen with them in the room.
Like I said, I'm not trying to attack you, but just think before you type. #thehighline
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um, you're reading into my comment by suggesting that I thought other than, "he was wrong, no matter the situation." Read my reply again and digest it this time. #standardhotel
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Yes - just look at those seductive drapes on the windows. #thehighline
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It was drape-rape. #thehighline
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And another $10 he eats it. #thehighline
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Good riddance (although I won't hold my breath just yet). #newyorkpost
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Seriously, all we've got is The Nation. That goddamn' self-serious tome bores the living piss out of me. And they don't even have a friggin' sports page, f'cripesake. I'd love a Leftie version of the New York Post. They're a nasty, rightist screed, for sure, but I love their attitude.
Didn't you all used to have a nice, loud, smartassed Leftie tabloid up there, long ago -- what was it called, PM, or something? #newyorkpost
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