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Sharing a room on a business trip

I'm surprised this is even allowed. Gotta be all sortsa liability HR nightmares involved with this policy.
 
palmab03 said:
I'm surprised this is even allowed. Gotta be all sortsa liability HR nightmares involved with this policy.
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Palma right again. I had a company calling on me that pitched travel savings by means of rewarding employees for "beating a trip budget." Their main thing was sharing rooms or getting an Air BB instead of single hotels. I was like ummmmmm HR. Ended the discussion pretty quick.
 
yeah really, this sounds like an HR nightmare. are they going to room male and female teammates together? if not, they're automatically limiting themselves to make all male/male or female/female selections for audit teams... and then there are all kinds of other issues that come up with that. Unless there's an expressed statement from the coworkers that THEY are cool with it, doesn't *seem* like something a company can just force on you.
 
obviously the key is to do it once, make it as awful as possible without actually harassing your coworker, and then you're golden. walk around naked, jerk off on your bedspread with the porn super loud, etc.
 
I worked for a nonprofit in my mid-20s and had to share a room with a colleague when we went to a conference our organization was hosting. At the time I didn't care at all as I was pretty good friends with most of the younger staff and got paired with someone I knew well. And knowing it was a small nonprofit, looking to cut costs, etc.

Now there's no way. I work for a different nonprofit now, but they definitely do individual hotel rooms, even when taking the whole staff to events.
 
LadyDeac03 said:
I worked for a nonprofit in my mid-20s and had to share a room with a colleague when we went to a conference our organization was hosting. At the time I didn't care at all as I was pretty good friends with most of the younger staff and got paired with someone I knew well. And knowing it was a small nonprofit, looking to cut costs, etc.

Now there's no way. I work for a different nonprofit now, but they definitely do individual hotel rooms, even when taking the whole staff to events.
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Yeah, when I was younger/at a nonprofit we shared accommodations all the time, but it was appropriate for the organization and everything else about the situation. That said, the E-level staff never shared accommodations. There's definitely a hierarchy to that situation, and now being over 30 myself it just doesn't appeal to me. Adults are weird and it's hard enough to find a significant other you're totally comfortable with. Don't subject me to strangers/coworkers.
 
LadyDeac03 said:
I worked for a nonprofit in my mid-20s and had to share a room with a colleague when we went to a conference our organization was hosting. At the time I didn't care at all as I was pretty good friends with most of the younger staff and got paired with someone I knew well. And knowing it was a small nonprofit, looking to cut costs, etc.

Now there's no way. I work for a different nonprofit now, but they definitely do individual hotel rooms, even when taking the whole staff to events.
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Non profits are goofy. My wife consulted at a small university foundation that wanted her to stay in campus housing / dorms as it was an off period and there was housing available on campus. The shared bathroom, among other things, were the major no go on that one.

Another non profit wanted her stay in a house they had on their campus that would include other people non affiliated with my wife's company or the project they were working on. She literally had to explain to them the risk / liability of placing consultants, especially women, in rooms without locking doors in a house full of strangers. Needless to say, she stayed at a hotel on that one.

I don't understand these cheap ass clients / non-profits that think this is acceptable. "No individual rooms? Ok, we'll do it remotely or you can find someone else."
 
I work for a nonprofit and often share rooms on work trips. :noidea: My industry is very different from the norm though.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
I work for a nonprofit and often share rooms on work trips. :noidea: My industry is very different from the norm though.
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I was just about to say - your industry is similar-ish to the one I was in, and I think they're definitely outside the norm.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
I work for a nonprofit and often share rooms on work trips. :noidea: My industry is very different from the norm though.
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I worked for a few non-profits back in the day and had the same experience. One of them had an all-staff week where people from all over the world would come stay in DC, where HQ was. Except they wouldn't stay in hotels - they would stay with staff who had extra room. Needless to say, I failed to inform them about my guest room at the time.
 
Maybe just bring a tent and sleep outside. No expenses at all!!
 
i almost rented a houseboat when i had meetings in seattle and there was some us footy match and all the hotels were 500+ a night. no shower so would have been similar to camping. didnt think i could pull off day 3 of the sink shower though.
 
lbE08 said:
I was just about to say - your industry is similar-ish to the one I was in, and I think they're definitely outside the norm.
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Being willing to live with relative strangers is kind of a cornerstone of my organization.
 
My wife has been told to do this numerous times for conference and she works for the federal government so it can't be that much of an HR issue. I also know several departments in my local government organization that have their single staffers do this. Basically in both instances the departments say here is our budget for this....it doesn't allow for everyone to have single rooms and everyone attend. Either you room together or nobody goes.
 
JamesSokolove said:
My wife has been told to do this numerous times for conference and she works for the federal government so it can't be that much of an HR issue. I also know several departments in my local government organization that have their single staffers do this. Basically in both instances the departments say here is our budget for this....it doesn't allow for everyone to have single rooms and everyone attend. Either you room together or nobody goes.
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this is shocking. i know someone that works for fed govt in dc and she would never be expected to share a room. she gets per full diem whether she spends the money or not. she knows people that will go to the gorcery store for stuff to make their own lunches to save that cash.
 
deaconson said:
this is shocking. i know someone that works for fed govt in dc and she would never be expected to share a room. she gets per full diem whether she spends the money or not. she knows people that will go to the gorcery store for stuff to make their own lunches to save that cash.
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I'm definitely this person when per diem is involved.
 
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