So breaking hotel policy is fun? I bet they were so happy to hear that.
They don’t understand a LOT about technology, but have many opinions regardless.
They have rules. You willingly and knowingly broke those rules.
What followed was something we like to call “consequences”.
Messing with thermostats wasn’t in their policy. Maybe they are going to modify that? Who knows.
Breaking rules isn’t always unethical…
Not your hotel, not your room.
If you want to be a guest, house rules apply, or you can stay elsewhere.
Once again, what city did this happen in?
Hey, I have worked several low wage jobs. I am sympathetic to those who do. But being a low wage worker does not give anyone the license to be a jerk. That night auditor at the first hotel was being a hard core jerk and very unprofessional. She YELLED at me and turned red, just because I sent two unoccupied elevators to the top floor. And she couldn’t come up with a reason why that was a bad thing!!! Yeah, she gets called a “wench”. That’s “wench” behavior. And the housekeeper who snitched on me was a petty tattle tell. Why would she/he even do that? What would they even get out of being a tattle tell?
Midwest Degenerate Gambler
-Not a Karen.
I feel it does work like that. It feels to me airfares are cheaper than ever. I get less in creature comforts but I pay less overall.
Because that’s their job, to put the room back into the condition it was before you used it, and let management know what has to now be fixed.
Maybe…just maybe…their supervisors have instructed them to check the thermostats after a guest checks out, to determine if the guest has tampered with the thermostat. In other words…they are doing their job.
All she had to do was set the thermostat back to 72…
She gets paid to do her job, not cover your ass after you break the rules.
I highly doubt that was in the training manual. Maybe a couple of years down the line, as more people become hip to the bypass, and then hotels adjust their policies.
Do you not take any responsibility whatsoever for breaking hotel rules?
Possibly not, but once the hotel has determined that guests are “jailbreaking” (your word) their thermostats, it would not surprise me that the head of housekeeping instructs the cleaning staff to test the thermostats as part of resetting each room for the next guest.
You are trying really really hard to blame anyone and everyone else for the consequences of your actions.
That’s a more expansive effort though. Smaller and worse seats, paid basic services (like luggage), a tiny bag of crisps, overbooking, etc. Instead of “A timed and tepid shower”, it’d be more like a weak shower, paid towels, television replaced by an AM radio, and so on. Perhaps some people would be happy paying less for that but then we already have cheap no-amenity motels for people who don’t want to pay much for overnight lodging.
Breaking rules isn’t always unethical.
Give more examples.
Hacking somebody else’s property to operate it in a manner unintended by its owner, regardless of the effort or cost it will incur to address, as a matter of personal preference/comfort is hardly ethical.
So what? Breaking this rule most definitely was unethical.
There are infinite examples. That’s a basic “Philosophy 101” concept. Legal /= ethical.
Some examples, for entertainment? Check out the alignment chart. Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic and Good/Neutral/Evil. People and individual actions can be chaotic (breaking rules/laws/norms) and yet still be good or morally neutral.
I tend to align with True neutral, FYI. But that should be evident already.