When you’re staying at a hotel for work travel do you ever wonder who else is also at the same firm on a different engagement or different firm working some type of engagement?

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No but great start to a Rom-Com

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When I was single and traveling weekly for work, I’d set my tinder/bumble/etc radius to less than 1 mile. Worked well.

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No.

Just prefer to not have my room adjacent or even the same floor as my colleagues…

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Totally have wondered this before.

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Nah

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