SINCITY89103
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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? NC
I will "try" to keep this as short as possible. (Here's on for ya enasni, )
Here's the story:
My friend works at a Hotel and went out with a guest after he was "off the clock". After droppping him off back at the Hotel, the guest got sick all over the lobby floor. A co-worker was upset to have to clean up the mess and told the managers that my friend took him out and was fraternizing with guests.
My friend was fired today for fraternization. He was told the company has a no fraternazation policy with guests.
Heres the fun part:
I work at a different Hotel, but owned by the same company (a big company). I was also out with my friend and the guest that night. I had no prior knowledge that he was a guest of the other hotel. I was called into my managers office and told that my friend was fired and I "may be" written up for fraternization. He explained that we can not fraternize with any "registered" guest. The hotel offers a friends and family discount when your friends and family stay at the hotel. How can they have a no fraternization policy with guests that are your friends and family I asked? If they stay at the hotel they become a "registered" guest. So I wouldn't be allowed to go out with, let's say, my Dad when he visits?. He said "Well if they are your family and friends that's different". I questioned him about how this would be proven when dealing with termination on grounds of who is or isn't "your friend" and he couldn't answer.
The questions: How can my friend be fired for hanging out with a guest when he was "off the clock"? How can I be written up (they wanted to fire me also, but my manager stood up for me) for being with someone, one, I did not know was a guest and two, was not even staying in the hotel I work in? To me this is ridiculous, I have never heard of fraternization policies that reach outside "employee" relationships in my entire life. Besides maybe in strip clubs where dancers can not legally leave the club with customers, but isn't that completely different? Do they have any kind of legal stand point here? My common sense tells me NO WAY. Does this mean if I ever find out someone is staying at a Hotel this company owns (over 20) I must leave and not be allowed to associate with them? Where is the line drawn, anywhere they please?
I will "try" to keep this as short as possible. (Here's on for ya enasni, )
Here's the story:
My friend works at a Hotel and went out with a guest after he was "off the clock". After droppping him off back at the Hotel, the guest got sick all over the lobby floor. A co-worker was upset to have to clean up the mess and told the managers that my friend took him out and was fraternizing with guests.
My friend was fired today for fraternization. He was told the company has a no fraternazation policy with guests.
Heres the fun part:
I work at a different Hotel, but owned by the same company (a big company). I was also out with my friend and the guest that night. I had no prior knowledge that he was a guest of the other hotel. I was called into my managers office and told that my friend was fired and I "may be" written up for fraternization. He explained that we can not fraternize with any "registered" guest. The hotel offers a friends and family discount when your friends and family stay at the hotel. How can they have a no fraternization policy with guests that are your friends and family I asked? If they stay at the hotel they become a "registered" guest. So I wouldn't be allowed to go out with, let's say, my Dad when he visits?. He said "Well if they are your family and friends that's different". I questioned him about how this would be proven when dealing with termination on grounds of who is or isn't "your friend" and he couldn't answer.
The questions: How can my friend be fired for hanging out with a guest when he was "off the clock"? How can I be written up (they wanted to fire me also, but my manager stood up for me) for being with someone, one, I did not know was a guest and two, was not even staying in the hotel I work in? To me this is ridiculous, I have never heard of fraternization policies that reach outside "employee" relationships in my entire life. Besides maybe in strip clubs where dancers can not legally leave the club with customers, but isn't that completely different? Do they have any kind of legal stand point here? My common sense tells me NO WAY. Does this mean if I ever find out someone is staying at a Hotel this company owns (over 20) I must leave and not be allowed to associate with them? Where is the line drawn, anywhere they please?