Traveling with your boss

After a week of work travel and sharing a house, I ended up having to share a hotel room with my boss our last night, only due to logistical curveballs. Nothing we planned.

I’m a bit mortified. I just started this full time role. It’s remote, so this is literally the first time I met them.

No one is at their best when they’re sunburned, exhausted from multiple nights with 4 hours of sleep and knowing they’re gonna snore.

Graceful recovery tips?

-Mortified

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I am mortified for you. I simply would have refused to do that. I would have sat in the hotel lobby or slept in the car before I ever did that. Was HR aware? This could be a serious HR issue — lines crossed big time.

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I assumed you were same gendered, and that doesn’t make it any less inappropriate. This is a big HR no-no, and should never happen today. Not to mention we are still in a pandemic. The fact that your boss let this happen is egregious, and I would at the very least question their leadership and judgment.

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Yeah, in no circumstance is this appropriate or normal. Sorry you were put in this situation.

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The first agency I worked for made the women share hotel rooms anytime we travelled, but the men always got their own rooms. It’s been 15 years and I still get pissed off thinking about it.

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I'm already writing the romantic comedy in my head

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Seriously! 😂

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Shouldn't your boss have a company card they could've charged their own room to and then sort out later? Or afford the room out of their own pocket then kick up a fuss later?

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We’re in a hot tourist area, so rooms were scarce. We were all checking our phones for other options when this was going on.

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The situation you describe is vastly unprofessional. It would be egregious at any time, but during Covid it’s flat out crazy.

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I’m just picturing that hotel scene from ‘Trains Planes & Automobiles.’ Hilarious

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the towels in the bathroom 😂

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You asked for graceful recovery tips, but I don’t think you have much to recover from! You and your boss were put in a crummy, fluke of a situation. Just tell them you appreciate that they made the best of things with you, and then go about your work lives/never mention it again.

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I think that’s a fantastic approach. Thank you.

Yeah there’s no way this is a necessity I would have absolutely refused.

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