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Sometimes working in a hotel really sucks
By: Wisdom000 Date: February 2, 2012, 7:47 pm
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So... a friend committed suicide monday morning... he checked
into a hotel, and cut his own throat...
Now his brother, who is a much closer friend, one of my best
really, is back in town, devastated, and I am doing everything I
can to help him and his family... which isn't much, holding a
get together tonight at my place, offering to get any family
members coming in a room at a discounted rate at the hotel I
work at, and generally just trying to be there for him... though
he has been in town for 24 hours now and I haven't seen him, he
has a big family so what I can do for him, and how much I can
help is pretty limited.
The thing is, working in a hotel, I am privy to way more
information about this than I wish I was...
The girl who relieves me is close friends with one of the
housekeepers at the hotel where he killed himself. And monday
night she told me all the gruesome details about the whole
thing... at the time neither of us knew who the victim was, in
fact she thought it was one of her friends, because apparently
my friend was wearing his jacket. She didn't tell me about it
because we are macabre ghouls, but because when something
happens in a town like this at one hotel, it gets through the
grapevine pretty quick, as a defense mechanism, so we all know
what to expect, who to watch out for, or what is going on so
people aren't flooding the hotel it happenned at with calls.
I didn't find out that the person she was talking about was my
friend until yesterday...
The thing is, having all the details, the housekeeper who found
hims detailed description, the housekeeper who tried to clean up
the room.... I wish I didn't know this shit, and there is really
no one I can share it with, because I damn sure am not going to
burden anyone else with it, especially the guys family...
So... sucks to be me right now with a head full of details the
family can never know...
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Re: Sometimes working in a hotel really sucks
By: Ayngel Date: February 3, 2012, 4:55 am
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Wisdom I'm so sorry to hear this :-(
You know I'm here for you if you ever need a chat
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Re: Sometimes working in a hotel really sucks
By: jameson18 Date: February 3, 2012, 9:01 am
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Just do what you can for your friend, even if it doesn't seem
like much. Everything you are doing for your friend right now,
no matter how small you think it is in the long run will have
more of an impact on them than you will ever know. In the end,
it just shows how much you care.
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Re: Sometimes working in a hotel really sucks
By: Wisdom000 Date: February 3, 2012, 5:12 pm
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Thanks guys...
My friend had... problems... he did something stupid and
horrible in his youth and ended up serving almost half his life
in prison... when he got out he had a lot of trouble adjusting,
and I don't think he ever really had a chance to live in
society... we tried helping him, originally because his brother
was such a good friend, then because we could see he genuinely
wanted to be a good person, he just could never quite figure out
how to do it...
He violated his parole, by having a gun... I have no clue what
the fuck he was thinking, he had a pretty young wife and a new
baby, but he could never get the prison mentality out of his
head... and from what his brother has told me, even before he
got in trouble, as a youth he had some serious problems... its
not an excuse for his monstrous behavior, but I tend to look at
the potential of a person, if I can, rather than just their
past...
Anyway, yeah... he barricaded himself in, then slit his own
throat... I think he chose to do that rather than go back to
prison... or maybe he felt it was better this way for his wife
and son, not to have to grow with his shadow hanging over
them...
The police and hotel staff know he did it himself because the
chain on the door was still in place. I don't know what kind of
fortitude you have to have to do that to yourself, but it gives
me nightmares thinking about it...
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