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It's an annoying children in hotel one

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zeezeek · 28/12/2016 23:23

Am at a series of fairly important meetings which are being held in a hotel. It's got a reputation as being a place where conferences are held and business people stay, rather than a holiday type of that makes sense? Anyway, we are in a suite of meeting rooms that are kind of on one side of the hotel, so not anywhere where people not involved in the meetings are likely to be.

However, all day today - from the start at 10am and to the finish at 5 pm we have been disturbed and interrupted by what seems like a family/friend group of children all about 6-7 years old. They have tried to get into the room, actually did on a couple of times before being booted out and we were then subject to various shouting from the parents, called entitled child haters, that sort of thing.

When they weren't physically interrupting the meeting they were running around the corridor outside and shouting an screaming at each other, whilst their parents sat in the bar and shouted at anyone who dared complain. The hotel management have done their best to control them and have warned them that they will be asked to leave if it happens tomorrow.

Couldn't even escape the little brats this evening as they were dining in the same room, at the same time as us and spent the entire time running around the restaurant.

I know children can be lively and rowdy, but ffs it's a hotel, not their home and surely it's not unreasonable to expect them to fucking behave and not interrupt people trying to have a serious meeting? We didn't manage to get through half of what we wanted today because of this.

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ilovesooty · 01/01/2017 15:07

How dreadful of you zeezeek. Your children will doubtless be scarred for life by your decision to work over the festive period. Grin

I have your next venue treats you with more decency and respect.

ilovesooty · 01/01/2017 15:07

Hope not have, sorry.

Willow2016 · 01/01/2017 15:17

Oh no the preciious snowflake attitude has infiltrated mn!

On what planet would it be ok for kids to run riot anywhere without being checked?

On what planet would it be ok to call a fellow guest a 'fucking cunt' for not appreciating the precious snowflakes 'right' to run riot and disrupt other PAYING (apparently the family think that they have paid for the whole hotel?) guests?

Its bad enough having to leave home for meetings at Xmas without some crap parents allowing their bratty kids to make it last longer as they cant get anything done for interuptions.

I dont know how I manage to go on holiday with two kids on my own without causing chaos in a hotel or restaurant! I must be a bloody miracle mum Xmas Smile Pats herself on the back and swaggers off...

MiladyThesaurus · 01/01/2017 15:39

I laughed and then flagged her email for a response by the end of the 3rd day after I am back at work (which is, of course, after her essay is due). Then I laughed some more.

Out of office replies are the best. I love being able to put mine on.

DownAmongtheElves · 01/01/2017 15:44

sometimes I leave mine on for a couple of days after I've returned so I can screen my emails

zeezeek so do I ... But I generally never answer emails outside of 8am to 6pm, except if I answer at around 6:30am (when I start work) and ask them to ensure they respond immediately Grin

MiladyThesaurus · 01/01/2017 15:47

I have a 9-5 email response policy.

I hate email.

woodhill · 01/01/2017 16:04

Also if I was away from home with DH and paid to have a break in a nice hotel over the Festive season, I would not appreciate people's dc being unruly as OP described and parents calling a guest a fc.

The business conference is slightly irrelevant. I think I would complain if the unruly dc were spoiling my visit and the dps were in the bar.

NewNNfor2017 · 01/01/2017 18:27

I suspect that the only people who really do have a two week "Festive Period" are:
Some public Sector workers, (admin, offices)
Anyone in education
Some staff in the big corporates
All those on Benefits who have no work anyway

My DH works in public sector, so he fits the profile you describe - although he has had several meetings- some in publicly hired venues - over the Xmas period related to his voluntary work.
The fact that he does work in the public sector gives him the flexibility to be as senior/involved as a volunteer as he is - ironically, many of the people who he volunteers with who work in the private sector can't commit as much because they need to be available for work on weekends and bank holidays.

Megatherium · 01/01/2017 23:44

A friend of mine who is a solicitor in the public law sector takes a delight in sending off formal letters before claim to cunty local authorities on around 23rd December, demanding a reply within a week.

splendide · 02/01/2017 07:06

I'm not public sector but when lawyers do that to me I take great satisfaction in ignoring their completely arbitrary and pointless deadline. In fact it's a real sign of an idiot on the other side.

Megatherium · 02/01/2017 09:38

The thing is, though, that in the public sector it often is that urgent. If, for instance, someone is in imminent danger of homelessness, or is coping with a child with disabilities without support, or is a disabled person who is in danger, or a child with SN has no school, the reality may well be that it has to be dealt with immediately and can't wait whilst the LA staff work off their hangovers.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 02/01/2017 09:43

Why cant these 'really important' business meetings just be delayed for a few days so families can enjoy the festive period. Industry is hardly going to fall apart!

The world doesn't stop for 2 weeks.

Not everyone wants to 'enjoy the festive period' either!

supermoon100 · 02/01/2017 10:21

To all the hospital workers, transport workers, police, fure workers, engineers, hospitality workers and retail staff, to all those people who kept the country fed, watered, warm and safe, during the festive period, I salute you. I've had a lovely Christmas break so thank you.

RaspberryOverloadTheFirst · 02/01/2017 10:48

Why cant these 'really important' business meetings just be delayed for a few days so families can enjoy the festive period. Industry is hardly going to fall apart!

And in addition to the previous answers to this, many projects, for example, have deadlines that can't be moved, and so people meet up to organise and discuss the work required. Deadlines are not always at convenient times, so meetings won't be either.

zeezeek · 02/01/2017 11:23

Ahh, we're back to the disbelief that we had a meeting just after Christmas type posts.

And before the whole SN thing is raised, I realise can't tell for certain, but I don't think these were SN children. Just badly behaved ones with arseholes as parents.

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RaspberryOverloadTheFirst · 02/01/2017 11:26

zeezeek there are indeed parents out there who are arseholes who have badly behaved children. Shame you had to put up with them this time.

ThisYearWillbeBetter · 02/01/2017 11:49

It's MN, zeezeek - where it is a sin to a) be an academic getting above ourselves and b) say that anything you do work-wise is important

zeezeek · 02/01/2017 14:03

There does seem to be a lot of very arsey and argumentative people on here at the moment.

Why is it seen as such a sin to have an important job? And/ or attend important meetings? Surely in 2017 that's something that women are allowed to do?

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Elphame · 02/01/2017 14:08

No idea! I spent hours in an important meeting last week going over the small print of some legal agreements.

I wouldn't dare mention it here though.

BadKnee · 02/01/2017 14:13

supermoon - what a nice thing to say. I second that.

TheGrumpySquirrel · 02/01/2017 14:20

MN did not used to be like this I don't think?! Really PFB about someone else's bratty kids?! It's probably all the crunchy mums with a chip on their shoulder because they don't have a career Grin

MiladyThesaurus · 02/01/2017 14:26

I'm not sure you're using a big enough spoon there Squirrel. Grin

zeezeek · 02/01/2017 15:10

Don't crunchy mums think that their children are their career? Grin

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summerblonde · 02/01/2017 15:13

What's a 'crunchy mum?.

TheGrumpySquirrel · 02/01/2017 15:20

Think hippy Steiner school attachment parenting types .. the crunchy bit possibly refers to dreadlocks I don't actually know

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