S/o how do you feel about sharing hotels with cw?

[Deleted]

If it's a tall hot male co-worker sign me up

[Deleted]

I would not share.

How can I use my good vibrator with my coworker in the bed next to me? Because that's how I enjoy hotel rooms to myself.

[Deleted]

Lol at professional callings... There a guy in my office that's my professional calling

[lucky513]

I dont give my workers a choice
They are bunked up this week in vegas

[eb777888]

See, no. No to this, too.

I'm weirdly private. Like, I want to take my bra off, drink wine, watch TV in privacy. I HAVE to know at the end of the day I at least have that.

I've only ever roomed with one sister who I am very close with. Outside of her, H and David it's just a big fat no. I will happily pay for my own room.

[mrsdoe]

Absolutely not and I wouldn't work at a cheap ass place that had such a policy. I find it totally inappropriate and lacking all boundaries. No one needs to hear me fart in my sleep and see my dangling tits.

[RoxMonster]

If we go on work conferences with overnight stays, our district will make two teachers of the same sex share a room. I have not had to yet since I've only been on one overnight conference, and luckily, all rooms with two queens were booked. They only had single kings available, so we each got our own room!

I HATE sharing my space with other people, even co-workers I know well. I would probably offer to pay for my own room to not share if the price wasn't too expensive.

[rupertpenny]

No. I would rather pay for my own hotel room. Any travel I do is voluntary so I guess I'm lucky to have this option.

I'm trying to decide whether or not to go to a professional conference this year and one of the cons is that my boss is definitely going and she will 1000% want to share a hotel room. She already has terrible boundary issues and I just do not want to deal with it.

Also, the conference is in Cleveland which isn't very appealing, haha. I might deal with convincing her to get her own room if it were somewhere more exciting.

[eb777888]

Apr 21, 2015 20:51:49 GMT -5 mrsdoe said:

Absolutely not and I wouldn't work at a cheap ass place that had such a policy. I find it totally inappropriate and lacking all boundaries. No one needs to hear me fart in my sleep and see my dangling tits.

H has traveled quite a bit in his last three jobs and never have any of them required him to share rooms. I think he'd do it but he's *breeeezy*. I would seriously switch jobs, lol.

[starburst604]

This would be so weird for me. I want to feel free to stink up the bathroom without my coworker going in right after me. And seeing all my toiletries, and having to hide my bras/undies and any other private stuff. I like to sleep in just a t shirt and no pants. It would be like having them stay in my bedroom. No, no, no. If it was a 2 BR suite, ok maybe, but I doubt that's what most people are offered.

[pagas]

Hell no

[irishbride2]

Apr 21, 2015 20:51:49 GMT -5 mrsdoe said:

Absolutely not and I wouldn't work at a cheap ass place that had such a policy. I find it totally inappropriate and lacking all boundaries. 

Its not necessarily a "cheap ass place." Many small non-profits, like the one I work at, do it. I would actually judge the crap our of many  small nonprofits I donate to if they wasted thousands on private hotel rooms every (exceptions of course!) time groups traveled. 

**eta: highlighting the use of "many" not all. 

So yes, I share with coworkers all the time. Its NBD (at least for me). I'm an introvert and prefer my space but it is what it is. I find my space other places. 

[clseale]

Nope, wouldn't do it.

Actually, I have once, but it was a different situation. One of our founders is partner at a gorgeous ranch in Montana. He wanted to take a couple departments to the ranch as a thank you, but in order for us to have room for everyone, we had to share rooms. We were only in them to sleep & I'm close enough to the coworker I was rooming with, so I was fine.

For a regular business trip? Not happening.

[scorpion]

No way. I'd pay for my own room before sharing (and I have). There are many, many things that I have no interest in sharing with my coworkers, and pretty much anything that might happen in a hotel room would be included in that....

[mrsdoe]

I worked for a non profit and we had extremely strict travel and expense policies and I was never asked to share a room. I'm ok with donating to a cause that treats it's employees like adults and not kids at summer camp.

[polarbearfans]

I prefer my own room. At a 3-day work conference I had to bunk with someone, everyone did, and I was not happy. I barely slept. The hotel was really nice and too expensive ($300+/night) for me to get my own room at my expense... Events started too early and ended too late to stay at another hotel.

If it is optional, get your own room.

[tacokick]

I would want to do that even less.

[picaflora]

We are "supposed" to at work, but my co-worker (who booked our rooms) didn't know the first time we traveled. So... we haven't since. Certain ones it wouldn't bother me, but I don'think I'd enjoy sharing with her. The 3rd girl in our dept is currently pumping, and I'm sure she'd enjoy her space. For an overnight trip I would just deal with it. We're about to be gone for a week - and I'm already bummed that I get two double beds (to myself) instead of a queen due to us booking late.

[knx9211]

I'd rather sleep in the same bed as my MIL than share a hotel room with a coworker.

[TrudyCampbell]

I'm a SAHM, but I voted for my husband who has to share with coworkers and doesn't have a choice. I cannot believe they make them do it. He works for a smallish start up company.

[readyin07]

This gets a fuck no! from me. No way no. There are no professional boundaries when you are sitting around in Jammies together. I made close friends in my last job inglat spent time with outside of work. I would gladly have gone on trips with them and shared a room for funsies. On a business trip, no! The time outside of the conference or whatever is my time and I don't want to share it. There may have been situations where I would have been ok with it but not with the company asking me to.

[irishbride2]

Apr 21, 2015 21:03:01 GMT -5 mrsdoe said:

I worked for a non profit and we had extremely strict travel and expense policies and I was never asked to share a room. I'm ok with donating to a cause that treats it's employees like adults and not kids at summer camp.

lol I have never once felt like a kid at summer camp. 

Summer camp would be awesome though. Much better than chaperoning 80 13 year olds for 5 days. 



So yes in my small non-profit world, it would be silly to have parents pay for us to each have our own room. I'd rather that money go towards the activities we can do and such.

**to clarify, my comments were about the small non-profits in my industry I give money to. 

[noodleskooze]

My job always has us share...sometimes four to a room, not just two.

[irishbride2]

Apr 21, 2015 21:13:54 GMT -5 @starry said:

Apr 21, 2015 21:09:25 GMT -5 freedom said:

Wait what does being over 30 have to do with it?

Most of the staff were straight out of college, so used to sharing rooms / apartments / etc. We also were mainly still unmarried and partiers. Of course there were exceptions. 

I do remember once I went to dinner after I arrived at training (alone) and got food poisoning. So then my roommate (whom I'd never met before) got to hear me vomit all night. So, yes there is absolutely a downside. I am not totally sure why they require shared rooms, if it is an attempt to get the staff to bond or truly just cost cutting. Maybe a Big 4 manager will come in and shed some light.

My mom was a partner at one of the big firms that did this. She hated it. But they claimed it was for bonding. She always managed to get her own room because at the time, women were scarce

She still talks about it though, lol. 

[TrudyCampbell]

I have enough trouble sharing a room with my husband.

[pandora]

I traveled for years for work and no, I would never share and was never required to, TG. You need down time after a long work day and then business dinner, etc... Plus, many people want to have conversations with their family, etc... in private.

I have shared a room with close friends on vacation but no I would not consider it professionally.

I would pay the up charge for my own room if need be.

[pandora]

Apr 21, 2015 21:13:54 GMT -5 @starry said:

Apr 21, 2015 21:09:25 GMT -5 freedom said:

Wait what does being over 30 have to do with it?

Most of the staff were straight out of college, so used to sharing rooms / apartments / etc. We also were mainly still unmarried and partiers. Of course there were exceptions. 

I do remember once I went to dinner after I arrived at training (alone) and got food poisoning. So then my roommate (whom I'd never met before) got to hear me vomit all night. So, yes there is absolutely a downside. I am not totally sure why they require shared rooms, if it is an attempt to get the staff to bond or truly just cost cutting. Maybe a Big 4 manager will come in and shed some light.

Interesting, I worked for the Big 4 for years and traveled for training and work. Always had my own room. We had a ton of bonding in the training but still went back to my own room....so I'm thinking it's a cost cutting measure.

[wambam]

I work at a company with five males so nope

ETA: But my coworker and boss share a room all the time, so there's that.

[cereal K]

At a Hampton Inn or something? That sounds awful.

There are very few coworkers that I would want to spend that much time with and/or be without a bra around.

[cereal K]

Apr 21, 2015 21:23:49 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

I mean, I'm kind of eyerolling at "I would NEVER!"

I get it. It's fucking terrible. But it becomes kind of company culture, whether you like it or not (and believe me, nobody does). You really risk looking like Nugget's Fucking Millenial and his orange glasses if you don't just do what you're supposed to do.

Just a cog in the machine, buddies.

I see the evolving culture thing - having been acquired in the last few years, I understand how you get dumped into practices you never thought you would like. 

If there was no way around it, I'd probably suck it up, but I'd be looking to limit my travel from that point on!