My career requires me to travel 95% of the time - usually staying in hotel rooms although right now I'm on a project in Clearwater, Fl for a few months so I got an apartment instead (company paid of course ). I would never share a hotel room, as that is my one place of solitude while on the road. You work with these people for 8 - 14 hours a day... you don't want to live with them as well. My consultancy firm has never required us to share hotel rooms - if they did, 90% of the consultants would leave. Our management is pretty cool and consultants themselves, so I doubt they would ever ask us to do that.

My colleagues and I were staying in a Mariott at the beginning of this current project and were discussing getting apartments but we didn't think that would be able to find any within our accommodations budget. Initially we thought that if we were going to get apartments that we’d have to share 2 bedrooms apartments with one other. If that was going to be the case, I said I’d just stay at the hotel instead. We had a few drinks while discussing…(and if you know me at all, you know that I’m very laid back, have a dry sense of humor and and that I love to be a smart@ss. Lol)… and I said “if I’m going to be sharing a bathroom and kitchen with someone, that person better be having sex with me!”. Haha. Of course, my point was that I'd only want to share living space with a significant other. Now, that’s the running joke of the project. Everytime I mention something about us going back to my apartment to do some work, one of them will say “Wait a second Michael… what if we need to step into the kitchen or the restroom?? ”. Haha! Of course, then I just respond with “Well, you know the rules…”.

- Mike