Got called racist over a phone charger.

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So this just happened a little bit ago.

I work audit at a Mawiday Binn and I got several noise complaints so I evicted the offending room. Slamming doors, yelling in the hallway. Just generally being a completely shitty guest well into the quiet hours that are posted all over the place. Took a call to the police, but they left and were gone and so I thought things were going to settle down.

In walks in a young lady asking if she can be let into the room I just evicted claiming she left something very "precious" and important. I inform her that that since that room has been evicted I would not be letting her or anyone into the room at this time. She begins to argue about the importance of the item and that I can go up to the room with her (Nope, not going to happen). I offer her to return later in the morning to retrieve her item. That wasn't going to work for her and so she says I am being racist and she pulls out her phone and starts recording and ranting about how the hotel and I are being racist.

I walked into the back and called the cops. As I am on the phone she is becoming more irate and screaming in the lobby and I hear her slamming her hand on the desk or something. So I just sit back there and wait for the cops.

Eventually I venture up thinking she had left, but she is there with some other people I hadn't seen before. One of them was just asking me what was going on in a calm tone while she was yelling about how she had talked nice to me. I tell the guy that I said she could return in the morning for her charger and that the cops were on their way. They left shortly after.

Cops came shortly after that and since the lady was gone they just told me to call them if anyone comes back.

It seems The Preakness really does bring out some wild cards. Hope ya'lls nights/weekends are going better. Thanks for letting me vent.

in TalesFromTheFrontDeskby bestdonnel

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Poldaran

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"Ah, yes. Someone not doing what I want. I know, I'll call them racist. That'll force them to give in to my will."

That thought process should end with the person thinking it getting tazed, without exception.

SpaceAngel2001

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Last time I was a racist, I was volunteering at a charity event that didn't allow backpacks on the grounds unless it was for baby or medical purposes, in which case it was inspected for weapons and other contraband.

I stopped a patron at the gates and told her she would have to take her backpack back to the car. But she saw someone inside with a backpack, so I was racist and she was going to get me fired...from a job I wasn't getting paid for.

I asked her if she fit the exceptions and explained her backpack would require inspection by security if she made that claim. Then I was even more racist in her eyes.

Extra-Jellyfish5771

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MLK would be deeply ashamed at many people nowadays if he were still alive.

KaraAliasRaidra

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There was actually an episode of The Boondocks with this theme.

DieHardRennie

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It seems The Preakness really does bring out some wild cards.

Read this and thought, "Oh, that explains it." I used to work at a store down the street from Pimlico racetrack, so I know how some people in that area can get. I (mixed race) once got called racist for making a customer pay for all of the copies they had made on the self-service copy machine.

Yana_dice

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For me, if she is being nice. I would totally offer to have the housekeeper retrieves and brings the charger to FD. Or I would tell her to come back in 10 minutes while I just go to retrieve it myself.

People these days have no idea how far can good manner get you. Sometimes you can turn a no into a yes.

codepl76761

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Na so probably alone in the building so I would not go also if their are other staff can't be accused of stealing none existant thing.

Yana_dice

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True, guess I have been lucky all these time.

Ilovethe90sforreal

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Ahh yes. The classic weaponized racist accusation.

Mastervodo

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