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If there were such a policy, is it may be better to have different sex share the same hotel room? After all, companies should not promote homosexuality. Different sexes in the same room and a company provided chastity belt may be better.

tcl

I've had to share rooms with co-workers on several occasions and luckily, it was ok most of the time. We both understood that it was primarily a business trip and only used the room to sleep and shower.

However, I've also had my share of bad work roommates: the party girl who got so drunk as to vomit in the sink, pass out in the shower...nightly, another that was into "vacation sex", a sleepwalker and one with some sort of nasal deformation that caused her to snore extremely loudly.

The last two really needed their own rooms for medical reasons, but the first 2 were just simply irresponsible, spoiled and entitled brats.

lg10

Arguably drinking/sex would be something that shouldn't be a co-worker's business. They may have been brats, but doing their own thing on their own time, even if it wasn't what you (or I!) would do, doesn't necessarily make it so.

--LG

MJLouise

Del: Why are you holding my hand?
Neal: [frowns] Where's your other hand?
Del: Between two pillows...
Neal: Those aren't pillows!

tcl

Problem was that they brought it back to the room sometime between 3am and 6am

If they were discreet and didn't bother me in my sleep I really wouldn't care what they did outside of work. But the problem with room sharing is that when one brings such behaviour back to the room, it disturbs the other person which then makes it a work problem for the next day.

Ancien Maestro

Risque and inappropriate.. your coworker could exercise a bit of discretion especially with you being in the room and all..

Did you have a talk with your coworker?

localady

^^^

Years ago (in the dark ages) I had a manager ask me if I would attend a class in Chicago. He was very upfront in telling me that employees would be sharing rooms. I very politely (or maybe not so politely) refused the class... If that happen now, I would be going to the highest officer in my group and asking them where does women buy pajamas these days, what kind of pj's did they wear and what is the max that I could expense since this would be something new to me... Then I would ask my boss (in front of anybody around) to schedule a reminder on his calendar to call me and remind me to take my prozac with me as well as to take beano regularly.

I do believe that companies create these policies to see how far they can push their employees into accepting situations where they could be uncomfortable and should not be forced to... Most companies (if any) don't pay the employee for working during hotel time and dinner time. The employee is giving up his/her free time by being there. Except for mandatory work dinners or an occasional team building activity in the evenings, I like to go back to my room and have some free time. Get into my bathrobe (or less), crack a bottle of Cabernet, order something from room service and read a good book... That's my time to regroup. The last thing that I want to be doing is sharing that room with somebody from work who could be talking about my lack of jamies, snoring, belching or any other thing that I do in my private room...

If two employees are best of friends or dating and want to bunk together, that's different. It's their choice. I would also agree to sharing an apartment like some others have described where each person has their own private bedroom and bathroom...

JohnnyColombia

My boss once forced me to share a room with a girl he had met in a nightclub whilst we were at a conference. After persuading said girl to stick around and miss her last train home, the boss's wife turned up to "surprise" him.

mapleg

Once and only once for me. Had received promotion to "management" and was invited to an annual meeting. Checked in, went to room and saw some clothes and a suitcase on the bed. I was naive enough to go down to the lobby to advise clearly they had booked me into the wrong room--someone else was occupying it. I then got the bad news--2 per room--never even dreamed that could happen.

I had to stay one extra evening due to airline scheduling and my roomie had decided to take a few personal days on top of the business trip. He had checked out, but that evening at midnight showed up with about 5 friends. I refused to let them in.

Never again..like others have posted here--I would pay for my own room before ever doing that again. I was flabbergasted at the time that quite senior management still had to bunk 2 to a room, and in fact seemed to make quite a game out of making sure they had this or that room mate.

t325

I don't travel for my job, so I'd have to double check the travel policy, but I'm pretty sure it's actually against corporate policy to share a hotel room with another employee (unless that employee is your significant other). I work for a major company who can be quite thrifty when it comes to expenses too.

Ancien Maestro

Good point on the option to pay for a seperate room.. Companies should allow this by subsidizing what the company was going to expense, and let the employee pay the difference for privacy..

I think in my younger days, I would have looked forward hanging out.. but nowadays, it privacy all the way if not with my family.