re: #106 Targetpractice

Few things are as amazing to a front desk person as a guest marching across a blacked out hotel with various other guests milling around in confusion and anxiety, stepping right up to the front desk, and saying in a totally naive tone “The power’s out in my room. Do you know why?”

It was even more fun at the hotel in Hayward. There we had a power feed that came in on two separate lines from two different substations. Thus, we could have one go down but not the other - which meant half the hotel would be without power but not the other half. Want to talk about confused guests? This is especially bad in the middle of very cold or very hot weather since the PTACs need electricity to run… Haven’t had a full power out (knocks on my head since that’s the nearest wood … 😉) since I moved down here thankfully.