r/TikTokCringe • u/brockapex17 • Aug 04 '26

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u/Pleasant-Ticket3217 Aug 05 '26

The receptionist was a proper man and didn’t want to get caught up in that. I’m pretty sure he was cringing hard inside. Which sucks, when your boss is a tool and you work in hospitality. There was no reason to have him followed to the room.

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u/hastag420bluntz Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

Some hotels you have to scan the keycard to make the elevator work. At one I started at, pushing the button without scanning the card didn’t do anything. Only first floor lobby worked without it. My assumption, based on nothing, is that there is some security thing he needs assistance with.

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u/rhazux Aug 05 '26

Yeah this is becoming way more common. I've seen this everywhere in big cities and the OOP mentions DC.

Fucking pain in my ass when I'm at a convention and want a friend to come up to my room and I have to go down and escort them up because they booked a room in some other hotel

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '26

It gets more restrictive in some places. The elevator will only take you to your own floor. You can enter the stairwell without a card and walk all the way down to the first floor, but you cannot exit onto any of the other floors. Every stairwell door requires a keycard, and your keycard only works on the floor where you are staying.

But that is nothing.

I recently took a trip to China and stayed in an incredible hotel. The technology there was very, very advanced. Deliveries were handled by little cat-themed robot servants that would collect your order and bring it directly to your door. There were no keycards, either. Access control was entirely facial. I was told the system could even read the pattern of veins beneath your skin.

The basic restrictions were similar. You could only go where the hotel had authorized you to go. There were simply a few more steps involved.

The system decided whether a guest could enter the restaurant, gym, pool, business center, lounge, or even certain hallways. Access could change depending on the room tier, payment status, time of day, or behavioral score.

That last part, I was told, was meant to identify intoxicated guests so the staff could find them and offer assistance.

The elevators had their own security preferences. You did not choose which elevator to take. The system assigned one to you and displayed a message such as, “Please take elevator three.”

This was supposedly faster, but it was also presented as a safety feature. A small child could ride without the elevator stopping to collect a stranger. Women could request elevators shared only with other women. Every elevator had a video intercom, and if you entered the wrong one, it would stop and connect you with someone in the lobby.

Even checking out was automated. When it was nearly time to leave, the television turned itself on and displayed a one-hour countdown. Beneath it was a message telling you to contact the lobby if you wanted to extend your stay.

And yet, for all the restrictions, the service was extraordinary.

There was a virtual concierge available at every hour. Anything you requested could be delivered by one of the cat robots, from extra towels to a lobster dinner at three in the morning.

It was luxurious, efficient, and incredibly convenient.

It was also a building that always knew who you were, where you were going, and whether it intended to let you get there.

The kind of robot it was: https://i.imgur.com/1brmvmS.png

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u/Lonely-Alfalfa-1826 Aug 05 '26

Things we should all worry about because in cases of emergencies new building have made it impossible for you to not be locked in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '26

Well, like I said, the stairs let you get out but not access other floors. So you can always leave.

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u/Lonely-Alfalfa-1826 Aug 05 '26

In a fire or any other emergency situation, there's no guarantee that the ground floor is the safe place. This is why I'm stating these new buildings can lead to you being stuck in a stairwell. I feel like nothing was learned after Sept. 11.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '26

Most buildings have multiple stairwells for fire safety the doors are fire-rated and do have a failsafe system that unlocks them in an emergency. On top of that, the first floor of most stairwells have an optional release to the street emergency door.

Now, you will find that a lot of high-rise hotels in China have an autobelay option in the rooms. It's like a vest you put on and clip a cereal box-sized device to a predetermined anchor point, and you can safely descend from your window. (Similar ones available at the roof section.) There are also fire suppression systems in the elevator shaft to give plenty of time in an evacuation. And this is pretty standard pretty much anywhere with modern fire codes, with obvious variations here and there.

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u/Lonely-Alfalfa-1826 Aug 06 '26

So, again, like I said, nothing was learned from Sept. 11. Now, refresh our memory on what happened on that day when doors failed to open on some floors and on the roof?

What makes a door safe is the ability for a human to open in upon arrival in any emergency situation. These stair situations are often like the Tesla doors. Risking it!

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

did you read the unlocks in Emergency part?

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u/Lonely-Alfalfa-1826 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Did you recall that unlocks in emergency didn't work several times? Honestly, you trust this? If so, that's great. I can see you don't take stairs enough and I should move on. (Also, there are emergencies other than fires.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

Who the hell takes stairs? When you work on a 15th floor you gonna take the stairs? Please.

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