Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (863 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0086MKQSU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Employees are poorly paid and frequently abused by coworkers and guests alike, and maintaining a semblance of sanity is a daily challenge.Along his journey Tomsky also reveals the secrets of the industry, offering easy ways to get what you need from your hotel without any hassle. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy degree and a singular lack of career direction, he became a valet parker for a large luxury hotel in New Orleans. Thanks to him you’ll know how to get the very best service from any business that makes its money from putting heads in beds. In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry. Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. Yet, rising fast through the ranks, he ended up working in “hospitality” for more than a decade, doing everything from supervising the housekeeping department to manning the front desk at an upscale Manhattan hotel. He’s checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room-service meals, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late checkout, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your minibar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. Prepare to be amused, shocked, and amazed
I loved it. This book is funny. Within the first day of reading it, my fiance remarked that he had never heard me laugh so hard at a book. While many books are amusing and I laugh internally while reading them, it is a rare event that I laugh out loud. This book made me laugh. Hard. If you're looking for entertainment, this is definitely entertaining. If you're looking for a conglomeration of horror stories about Things Hotel Employees Discovered About Guests, this isn't it. I anticipated the book t. HuntleyMC said A Quick Weekend Read. An interesting look at the world of a hotel employee. This memoir is written by a gentleman that started a the bottom as a valet and moved his way up in the hotel world.The author offers tips to the reader on how to have a better stay at a hotel and he also gives tips on how to avoid getting on the nerves of the bellhop or front desk which will guarantee a bad experience.As a frequent traveler I found it interesting to read about the inner workings of hotel and also to read about the thi. Light and fun I enjoyed this book. It wasn't great literature, but it was light and entertaining, and will (hopefully) encourage you to tip more. Some of the suggestions are over the top you have to be really cheap to put all that effort into getting a free movie out of a hotel, but others are interesting (can you really get an upgrade just by tipping at check-in?).On the other hand, if you have reached voting age while remaining pure enough to be bothered by a swear word or two, this book is not for
Hospitality, no matter how slick it gets, will always be a business run by people who serve people. From the glad-handing doormen to the unsung workers in the “back of the house,” Tomsky exposes the machinery and machinations that make luxury hotels run (if not always smoothly), advising his potential guests about whose palms to grease (and how much) in order to get that coveted park-view upgrade. And if you can’t manage either, you might be better off unwrapping a new toothbrush every day. After years of hotel work and relocations that took me from New Orleans to Paris to Copenhagen and ultimately New York City, I finally conceived the idea for He