Sharing Hotel room for work conference

19-06-2023 12:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733742#Comment_120733742

Yeah, I agree. Even in a suite, I think I'd still be uncomfortable with it. But others might not.

I shared a twin room at a union conference once, many, many years ago and it was not something I'd do again.

MarkR · 19-06-2023 12:19pm

I snore. I don't think anyone should have to suffer that. But seriously, that's a hard pass from me. Surely there is a level of privacy you can expect, which should not include sharing a room with work colleagues.

suvigirl · 19-06-2023 12:38pm

I would point out how vunerable one of their employees is, when they are asleep in a room with someone they barely know and how the company has a duty of care towards their employees.

HeidiHeidi · 19-06-2023 12:43pm

That would be a flat refusal from me.

Shelflife · 19-06-2023 12:55pm

Not a hope I would share a room with a work colleague, if they insisted then I wouldnt go or make my own arrangements.

Huge can of worms asking people to share.

phill106 · 19-06-2023 1:04pm

Did it once many years ago. Wouldnt again. I snore ...loudly.

Ear plugs and pillow over head did not save him.

Lucky i didnt get a pillow over my head.

Hooked · 19-06-2023 1:12pm

WTF!

I'd barely share a room with some of my FAMILY/MATES!

A WORK colleague. Not a chance...

I assume all same-sex? They'd hardly be assking men and women to share a room, would they? Bizzare!!!

SuperS54 · 19-06-2023 1:16pm

Not a hope would I share a room with a colleague unless there was some sort of disaster that made it completely unavoidable and even then. I'm reluctant to share a room with a friend these days, no matter a stranger from work.

Do you at least get to chose who you're supposed to share with? If everyone else is OK with the arrangements I imagine I'd come down with the flu or food poisoning at the last minute and be unable to go.

AndrewJRenko · 19-06-2023 2:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120734181#Comment_120734181

Segregating by sex doesn’t prevent shenanigans, whether by choice or otherwise.

GerardKeating · 19-06-2023 2:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120732814#Comment_120732814

Ah ok, maybe we actually thinking the same thing then. It would be a legal quagmire for HR to even ask employees about Gender Identity..

CreadanLady · 19-06-2023 2:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120734181#Comment_120734181

Not unless they want a few months gone to sex assualt/rape investigation

Hungry Burger · 19-06-2023 2:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120733689#Comment_120733689

Similar happened to me, there were electrical storms and we were brought somewhere on a bus over an hour away from the airport to be put up in a hotel and wait for the next flight the following morning.

I was with a work colleague also but he was a good pal of mine and luckily enough we got put in the room together so didn’t kick up a fuss just went to the hotel bar for the night but yeah if I was put in with some randomer I wouldn’t be happy at all.

salmocab · 19-06-2023 3:29pm

When I was an apprentice we used to do country work a lot and always shared, when I got a bit older I insisted on single room. These days there’s not a hope I’d even expense a trip I’d insist on them paying up front and I might expense a meal if needs be.

Quitelife · 19-06-2023 3:53pm

You dont work For Keelings Fruit by any chance, they squeeze about 8 of their East European employees into a caravan every night

Claw Hammer · 19-06-2023 5:16pm

When abraham Lincoln was working as a lawyer he often had to share a bed with a complete stranger, let alone a room. Its no big deal. Just get on with it!

L1011 · 19-06-2023 5:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120730125#Comment_120730125

I've had it in the private sector.

Way to avoid it for more minor things was book and expense the rooms, but for big company events that wasn't an option. Twin rooms all the way unless you were lucky the be the last one to turn up and there was an uneven number of your gender.

Other employers have not had that rule, but it's not unheard of. Another preferred single as there had been a few incidences of heavy after hours hotel room drinking which seemed to be less when everyone had their own room!

Limerick_dude · 19-06-2023 5:24pm

I travel a lot for work and there isn't a hope in hell I would share with a colleague and to be fair I would be pretty certain that this kind of scenario would never be put forward by the company.