# So, what does the overnight staff at a hotel do?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-does-the-overnight-staff-at-a-hotel-do/512966>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 7, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-does-the-overnight-staff-at-a-hotel-do/512966 "2009-10-07T19:02:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-does-the-overnight-staff-at-a-hotel-do/512966/21 "2009-10-08T09:51:47Z")

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> [@Zebra](#):
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> A friend of mine works at the W hotel in NYC. She now works the concierge desk overnight but they don’t call it that. It is officially called ‘Whatever Whenever’. I guess playing on the W theme.
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> Part of her interview for the job included being asked how she may react if a guest requested at 3 AM to have their bath tub filled with hot chocolate.  
> They didn’t just pull that idea out of their hinders, it was something that happened.

I actually opened the W Hotel in Times Square and they are so pretentious. I don’t know if that is the W Hotel in NYC your friend works at.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-does-the-overnight-staff-at-a-hotel-do/512966/22 "2009-10-08T18:28:16Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> And the hobbling; no big deal?

Not to third shift. All of us working at this hotel were pretty strange ourselves. The only thing that would have been passed on to next shift would be the DND, so the info would be passed to housekeeping: they would write it down on their check-out sheet and know to leave you alone.

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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-does-the-overnight-staff-at-a-hotel-do/512966/23 "2009-10-08T20:36:11Z")

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> [@Zebra](#):
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> …Part of her interview for the job included being asked how she may react if a guest requested at 3 AM to have their bath tub filled with hot chocolate…They didn’t just pull that idea out of their hinders, it was something that happened.

How did she respond?

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