VICTIM
Scummy, untidy, poor, thifty, cheap, annoying, unwanted, unemployed... each could be used to describe a student and often is.
As a student, this is fine, we do little to get rid of this sterotype and often, if anything reinforce it.. which explains why many people 'look down' on students and I expect it.

However, I do not expect it when I am in an expensive hotel... Went to stay at Coome Abbey last week, as well as finding a nicely scripted card explaining the attire should be smart casual AT ALL TIMES (which we dutifully agreed to) we were still treated like scum.

Gave us the impression we shouldn't be there, weren't welcome. Went to breakfast, no plates were cleared from the table, no tea or coffee offered, no toast... Whilst virtually every other table around us were waited on hand and foot.

I work in the Holiday Inn, and I give the same service to the 12 year old football teams as I do to the general managers, should really expect the same at a (5* ?) luxury hotel?
(MissFlee tried again on, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 21:13, 1 reply)

Yes, you're a (correctly spelled) victim
...but it's not due to your studentyness. It's due to your youth. Until you get into your your 30s, the kind of polite arrogance that lets staff know that their jobs depend on a single raise of the eyebrow simply isn't present.

Unless you went to Eton, in which case they'll clear the table, bring fresh toast, top up the hot drinks and stir the porridge with their cocks.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 22:46, closed)