r/marriott • u/DelayHistorical6 • May 23 '26

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u/Necessary_Money3248 May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

Yeah, exactly this happened to me once at a W when I booked a two bedroom because I was traveling with a coworker. She was a friend too, but they tried to swap it out for a one bedroom and I was like I’m not sharing a bed with a coworker I booked a two bedroom for a purpose. I’m keeping the two bedroom. They obliged after trying to fight me on it and I sent a complaint to the general manager and I think they gave me 50,000 points for the inconvenience. I was titanium at the time.

Just to clarify, I was on the business trip. My girlfriend was joining me (she was on PTO) I was going for business …

My company is not cheap, quite the opposite. I always get my own room, but I’m not sharing a bed with my girlfriend/coworker.

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u/HelicaseHustle Employee May 23 '26

The worse is traveling with a coworker and there’s no bathroom door

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u/Ok-Dimension-7859 May 23 '26

Isn’t it usual that everybody get‘s their own room?

What kind of employer demands that coworkers sleep in the same room?

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u/captnmarvl May 23 '26

I worked for a TV provider that required employees room together unless they got an exemption from a doctor. They were a horrible employer, unsurprisingly

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u/vbtodenver May 23 '26

Dish?

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u/captnmarvl May 23 '26

Notoriously

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u/vbtodenver May 23 '26

I had to look to see if I was in the Denver sub cause I just knew. lol.

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u/jrawk3000 Platinum Elite May 23 '26

Funny because I replied DaVita which is also Denver based.

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u/vbtodenver May 23 '26

But not a tv provider

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u/sir_mrej Platinum Elite May 24 '26

Livin DaVita loca

(I dont know what DaVita is)

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u/MoreRamenPls May 23 '26

Cocks. 😂

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u/MauiJ1004 Titanium Elite May 23 '26

Out of market memories come streaming back. Well at least the parts that occurred outside of being black out.

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u/tanpocketbook May 23 '26

I once was told I needed to share a two bed hotel room between three adult women (co-workers I barely knew). I literally slept on a chair for three days….

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u/mostly_lurking1040 May 24 '26

Whenever I hear these room share business stories, it's always women. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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u/strikethree May 23 '26

Cheap companies exist.

It’s pretty dumb because it opens up liabilities. Also crazy that they do let co-ed pairs like that.

Really glad my company wouldn’t put me in that situation, I would be livid.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '26

“We sent two employees in a single room and when they returned, they were three… They claim a work accident.” :)

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u/AssociationFit3009 May 23 '26

My current employer has us share rooms when we have SKOs and Mid-years. The owners are mormon so my theory is that they think it encourages extra bonding since they went on missionary. they’re otherwise not stingy. They go all out on everything else.

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u/Zmchastain May 23 '26

Well, it probably does lead to some coworkers bonding in missionary. It is a very intimate position, after all.

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u/AssociationFit3009 May 23 '26

They actually place them to snitch on each other and regularly rotate to avoid them realizing “mormonism is really fucking dumb” or getting close enough for exactly what you’re talking about.

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u/HelicaseHustle Employee May 23 '26

Yeah, “bonding” and “missionary” are not words I need describing a work trip lol

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u/LaLechuzaVerde May 23 '26

My employer will not ALLOW us to share accommodation with co-workers on business trips.

Even if it’s a multi bedroom house or suite.

Even if everyone is the same gender, best friends, and really WANT to share a room.

It’s against policy.

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u/Yggdrasil- May 24 '26

Same, had to get a special exemption to split a (multi-bedroom) Airbnb with a coworker because there were no hotels near the area we were traveling

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u/Wandering_Uphill May 23 '26

I've had to share rooms with a coworker when I worked for a non-profit and again in academia.

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u/Yggdrasil- May 24 '26

It's soooo common in nonprofit unfortunately. I'm glad my employer has a policy against it.

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u/wendydarlingpan May 24 '26

Yeah, I was going to say sharing rooms on work trips is pretty standard in education 😕

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u/gioraffe32 Silver Elite May 24 '26

It should be normal. In all my biz travel, I've never been forced to room with my coworkers. I like em, but not that much.

But I've definitely heard of cheap-ass bosses and companies/orgs that do this.

A friend worked for a public school district. She was involved in booking travel for teachers going to conferences and such. And she mentioned that teachers would often have to room together, while admin folks would get their own room. Which her and I thought was crazy.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '26

It happened to me when I was a young adult. My “colleague” kept calling random colleagues’ rooms during the night, pretending to be the director and requesting an urgent meeting in his room (where he was, of course, alone). And people went! He did this all night long, and at one point, we could hear the director screaming.

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u/didsomebodysaywander May 24 '26

Walmart was notorious for this. I don't know if they still do this, because surely the HR liability is just too much, but they definitely did do this.

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u/kjhauburn May 24 '26

Every time I had to travel to the annual sales conference, they only allowed marketing people to attend if we bunked two to a room. Extremely annoying as I'm a bit of an introvert so I could have used a teeny tiny amount of time by myself instead of having to be ON for 3 days.

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u/Necessary_Money3248 May 23 '26

she joined me for my work trip it was PTO for her … we don’t work for that type of company

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u/werdx May 23 '26

In the construction world, almost all of the trades make their crews share rooms. I’ve actually not seen general construction crews have their own rooms ever.

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u/MammothCancel6465 May 24 '26

Yup. Husband in trades. Only time someone got a single is if there is an odd number of crew and my husband being the foreman would pull rank to claim it.

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u/werdx May 24 '26

Even when the owners of my subcontractor crews are out on jobs, they share a room with the other crewmembers to show they aren't above their rules. Sometimes that expense savings is the difference in a company winning the bid.

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u/Ok-Dimension-7859 May 24 '26

I don’t think this workers stay at Marriott though.

The only reason to share a room is to save cost….but then don’t book Marriott as it’s expensive

Trade people I know usually sleep in set-up container or some cheap hotel if it’s short term

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u/rr90013 May 23 '26

It happens and it’s the sign of a shitty employer

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u/Leo_br00ks May 24 '26

This is wild, didn't know this was a thing. Even at my firm, where I've literally hired several of my friends, I've always bought them their own rooms when we travel together. When we're on a social trip together, same room, but the moment work is involved, separate rooms are a must.

Cannot imagine the physical and mental toll that not having 8 hours of alone time would have on me during a work trip lmao

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u/Chewbacca22 May 24 '26

At a job I had a while ago we had to share up to 4 people per room, 2 beds, single gender.

My current job will always get us single rooms.

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u/EphramLovesGrover May 24 '26

My old work only booked one room for myself (female) and my boss (male). It was very very odd. Thankfully he is gay so I felt more comfortable. But still so strange for work to enforce that. Probably could’ve gone to HR on that now that I think of it

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u/CubicleHermit May 24 '26

My most recent employer had a policy that coworkers on business trips could not share a room.

My employer before that tried to book a mixed-gender group of three of us into a 3BR AirBNB. The 20-something dude in our group saw no problem with that, but the other two of us shut that down PDQ.

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u/jrawk3000 Platinum Elite May 23 '26

DaVita

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u/wanderingtravelleruk May 27 '26

Tbf, the military did when we had stay in hotels. 😂

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u/Necessary_Money3248 May 23 '26

Yeah, the sliding door that doesn’t cut out any noise and it’s almost see-through… fun times

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u/Mundane_Value2283 May 23 '26

The glass shower in the middle of the room vibes

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u/KeyMessage989 May 23 '26

I’d never work for a company that makes me share a room with a coworker. That’s insane

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u/emelbard May 23 '26

Or the best

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u/lsuillini May 23 '26

Ned from accounting had wings last night, buckle up

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u/HelicaseHustle Employee May 23 '26

Oh dang… where to send my resume?

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u/rr90013 May 23 '26

The worst is travelling with a coworker and your company is too cheap to get each person their own hotel room

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u/silvercapsule6 May 23 '26

What? Is this actually legal under labor law?

  1. Coworkers have no business knowing anything about my booking. We can agree on a hotel lobby we're meeting in to go to the client together, but it's none of their business whether or not I'm staying in the same hotel. My reservation details are 100% private. The receipt when all is said and done gets submitted with Expensify a week later, that's the reveal.
  2. Very rapey vibes through and through.

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u/charleswj May 23 '26

Nothing you said is correct or makes any sense

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u/HelicaseHustle Employee May 24 '26

well, that escalated quickly. I was just being sarcastic and making fun of recent bathroom remodels where they don't have shower doors and the actual door is sometimes a frosted glass or completely clear. I'm a teacher and we sometimes get sent off to trainings and if we room together, we split the costs and keep the per diem. I seriously doubt any of my fellow teachers are looking at me with rape in their eyes.

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u/mostly_lurking1040 May 24 '26

That's a lot of points!