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Pump up the Volume

Last night I was probably one of only 4 males at the hotel not watching the football. I was in my room reading a book. Yes, I was consulting my Dummies Guide to Understanding Hotel ADSL & Dial-up Procedures. I was also naivily trying to comprehend and find a logic to the Guide the hotel produced. I was reading this while also talking to our company’s helpdesk to get a speedier resolution to my dilemma. I had a report submission deadline. I also had the TV on (Volume Level 2 ). All was going wrong, wrong, wrong. It was not going well. No connectivity etc etc and before I knew it, I’d dozed off to sleep at about 10pm.

Then I was wide awake within what seemed a minute. It was actually 01:14am and the TV in the next room had woken me.

My TV had masked their volume and I just fell asleep none the wiser. Cut a long story short - that was all the sleep I was going to get last night! Knocking on the walls, getting up, dressing and going to knock on their door door did not work . Neither did going downstairs to complain to the Duty Manager work the first time round. He delegated the task to a junior who came upstairs and perfunctorily knocked on their door a few times. No answer ? I could almost hear him thinking, “Oh good this means no nasty confrontation business and I have done my job so now I can go back downstairs to resume the sleep I was having in the back office “.

So I waited until 02:0am before I called reception again. This time the duty manager came up. She bought Security with. They banged on the door in progressively longer and louder knocking sequences and bangs. Still no answer. By this time the other guests had been woken up and were crowding in the hall to see what was going on.

The duty manager and Security man opened the door after 5 minutes, walked in, turned off the TV and walked out banging the door behind them. They said nobody was in the room. The person or people who paid for the room had hung a DO NOT DISTURB sign outside on the door, pumped up the TV volume and gone out to razzle away the night.

They returned at 03:17am. I knew this because I was trying to finish my report and submit it before 08:30am from our office in Dublin.

Why am I telling you this? Because I am knackered. Tired. Bereft of kip and not in the best of moods.

I think I got my own back. When the time came for me to get ready to come to work, I turned on my TV , got showered, packed while carefully banging the cupboard doors and ‘accidently’ bumping into the adjoining wall a few times (loudly), had a hearty Full Irish breakfast, went back upstairs, repeated the earlier room exit process in reverse, chatted loudly to housekeeping outside my door, collected my stuff, pumped up the TV volume and left the building slamming the room door behind me!

Sod them! I did not get a discount on my bill. Last time I stay at that 4 star hotel.