work, sharing hotel room?

[Deleted]

Does your employer make you share rooms if you're traveling in a group? 

I have a serious problem with this, ugh.  I'm an introvert and NEED my downtime/alone space.

[drloretta]

NO

[mbcdefg]

No. I rarely travel and often it's by myself.

I meet up with a colleague I dislike at one or two shows a year. If I was forced to share a room with her I would pay for a solo room out-of-pocket to get away from her.

[atlas]

I've only ever traveled for one company. It is a large 10000+ employee type company. We had our own rooms.

[gingery]

I work for a company of < 1,000 people. This is against company policy.

[scm1011]

God, no. I would have a huge problem with that. How uncomfortable.

[qwerty]

My last job used to make us share rooms. Then they switched to making us share two bedroom suites, which wasn't as bad. Then finally we were allowed to book our own rooms. It was pretty bad sharing the single room and especially coordinating showers in the morning.

I asked about it on here like 8 years ago and it was fairly common.

[womet]

When I worked for the state, they made people share rooms. Several of my coworkers got letters from their doctor outlining why they needed their own room.

[hocus2]

Our company has this policy last time I checked. It is widely hated. I think they try to get suits.

[shortstax]

Not now, but my old company did. One time we got in late, and the only room available was a king.

NOPE NOPE NOPE.

I drove to a different hotel and paid on my own dime. F that.

[gt7301b]

Fuck No.

[qwerty]

I should mention there are tons of funny stories as a result...boss walking naked in room, coworker with sleep apnea, guy who left his underwear on the sink...

[monsterz]

A previous employer requires rooms to be shared at the annual sales conference. For all other travel sharing is not required.

[explorer2001]

It has never even come up. Everyone gets there own room, end of story.

[justjen]

I've had to. DH has as well

[bexporter]

I only had to do this once, and it was awful.

[spunkarella]

No, but they book us the crappiest rooms you ever did see for our annual retreat. We have offered to share rooms if they will take us somewhere nicer.

We go to a state park and stay in a creepy motel where the rooms open up directly to the outdoors/woods. Bugs are common inside the rooms. The beds are rickety. The wallpaper is peeling off. The bathrooms are gross. The water leaves rust stains on the tub and sink. Last year my towel bar was missing and I had a gaping hole in the wall instead. It's dreadful.

[imojoebunny]

I can't believe employers still do this.

[genet313]

That sounds terrible.  I'd probably ask if they would cover half the cost of a separate room and pay for the other half myself, honestly.

[steamboat185]

No. That would not work.

[raangoli]

Nope. But half of the time I am either traveling alone or with a male coworker, so maybe that would work out for me?

[boiler717]

Sales reps have to share rooms. I do not.

[ally]

Where I work it depends on who (& how many) is going, their positions, cost of the hotel.  I have shared many times - no terrible experiences.  And three separate times it was with a male coworker (different each time) - I am friends each of them, so not terribly awkward, but... probably would not happen now.  I did quickly correct the one time we were going to get a king bed - nope - they switched to queens and moved us to the concierge floor.  Free booze and snacks!

Once there were three of us sharing a room: me, female coworker, and male coworker.  She and I shared a bed (we are friends socially with our husbands and had previously shared a hotel room for work).  Male coworker had trouble sleeping and noticed that she pulled the covers over me in the middle of the night.  Apparently I looked cold!

They have frozen travel for two years.  To be able to go to a conference, I would agree to share a room. 

[egishere]

nope. I think they might make the interns share when they take the summer intern trip to the field but that's understandable.

[aprilsails]

When I travel in the Arctic hotels charge by the room not the bed. All rooms have two twins. So it's posdible if the hotel is full that I will have a roommate. At which point I have to choose between a male coworker I know, or a female stranger I don't. It's only happened once in 5 tripsup there. Generally I get my own room.

[cilantro]

I can see that being such a risk for lawsuits. Stupid for companies to do that.

[tacosforlife]

Until all hotels install VERY LOUD and VERY EFFECTIVE vent fans in the bathrooms, this gets an epic side-eye from me.

I NEED MY OWN POOPING SPACE! WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE POOP SHAME!

[redredwine]

It's funny, I asked the same question when I was planning on my first work trip. I got told "NEVER! it NEVER happens!" and then the one team at work who you would have thought had ALLLL the budget ended up sharing hotel rooms. I guess it's possible, but not likely. Dear God I hope I never have to face this situation #closetintrovert.

[v]

My husband had to do that for his first few years at a Big 4 accounting firm. They'd ship all the young'uns from around the country to a conference center for training, and then make them share rooms. Even worse: they deliberately put them in rooms with people from other offices who they hadn't met so they'd get to know others.

I would fake my death.

[SJ]

Never.