to think staff in a high end hotel should not have facial injuries as part of their Halloween fancy dress?

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I understand people wanting to wear fancy dress for Halloween and to be sponsored for charity (although I don't know whether the staff here are actually being sponsored). However I am sitting in reception of a high end hotel waiting for a friend and the staff are in very realistic fancy dress. However, they are mostly zombie themed, horrific facial injuries, nurses in torn, bloody uniforms and open wounds. It is just so nasty.
I know some will call me out as a special snowflake, and talk about how its just a bit of fun, but this stuff is damaging and upsetting to many. Especially when there are so many other options for Halloween fancy dress.

Do you know what, I'm all up for people having a good time and all but I find that I kind of agree... There's a watershed for disturbing images on tv but not on fancy dress.

I’ve just seen a post on Facebook about a local care home where the staff have all dressed up with some fairly graphic make up. I was

I'm fascinated by the Zombie Fucking Bride Ham referred to.
Mind you, remembering some of the weddings I've been to ...

HamSandWitches
And that's the other side of it, staff having to go along with it.
You also made me laugh about being too scared to go look for whatever dropped of your car. Lets hope it wasn't your handbag or a baby in a car seat. (Joke!!)

"Everyone will be dead one day, then it won't be quite so amusing will it?"

I understand where you're coming from, OP. I have anxiety, and it peaks at things like staying away from home. If I was checking in, already feeling anxious and therefore a bit queasy, seeing a realistic-looking injury could give me a panic attack. I wouldn't expect to have to face that in a fancy hotel that I'd paid a fair amount to stay in. I wouldn't expect it in any hotel, to be honest, but I'd be especially annoyed if I'd forked out a lot of money to be there.

*off. I am so tired today.

You dont expect dressed up people on halloween?

My sister works with a facial disfigurement charity (she suffered one herself at a young age) and she understands that these things aren’t real, just dressing up because yes, open wounds are a bit scary, I was terrified of going to see her in hospital the first time.

I find it pretty gross if it's anywhere near food. Both the depictions and the actual paint. I generally hate Halloween for adults though.

You dont expect dressed up people on halloween?

I would expect to see little kids dressed up. Not adults at work with realistic fake injuries.

You dont expect dressed up people on halloween?

I don't expect to be confronted by scenes of gore on the street that you wouldn't see on TV before 9pm. Except after 9pm!

How do you go to a hotel on halloween, and not expect to see people dressed up? Are a lot of the other guests not dressed up? Surely if things like that make you anxious, you'd try to avoid people, today more than any other day, as much as possible?

I did find it a bit offputting at Costa to be served by someone with loads of fake blood on their face and arms, torn bandages, as well as contact lenses in that made her eyes look bloodshot, looking in odd directioons, different sized pupils, etc.

I wouldn't have said anything - I can appreciate the effort she'd gone to, and it didn't bother me unduly, but at the same time, it did seem a little off putting to have someone serving me food when they looked like that :D

You dont expect dressed up people on halloween?

Not from customer-facing staff in the workplace, no.

You dont expect dressed up people on halloween?

In a 'high end hotel', I think I actually wouldn't.

I would hope for realistic oozing wounds and what not, not yer poundland Travelodge shite.

HTH

I agree with you OP. I don't find it even vaguely amusing or entertaining to see people dressed up and made up with bloody disfigurements. Each to their own I guess, but I too would not expect it from a high-end hotel.

Skeletons, ghosts, pumpkins etc - fine, knives through the head - no.

I don't think any customer facing job should look like they have their faces hanging off tbh.

I agree with this.

Ds is autistic and really struggles with things like this anyway. Today we haven’t been able to leave the house because I know anywhere we go we will be greeted by staff dressed up. Even more annoying it’s not just one day anymore but all over the weekend too.

Wasn't the original point of dressing up on halloween, to wear freaky masks, or costumes, to confuse the ghosts, demons, undead etc that could "cross over"? It's traditional to dress scary.

It's the whole "I unzipped the skin from my face and this is the bloody, oozing gore underneath" that I don't want to have to explain to my toddler. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

I'm with the op. We stayed at a UK resort recently that stated fancy dress was not permitted in the bar/restaurant as it was a family resort. Seemed reasonable to me. Not everyone is comfortable with facial disfigurement as a fun concept.

I wouldn't expect people to be at work in halloween costumes unless their work involved halloween. Unless there is a lunch party halloween event then YANBU, and even then those dealing with people not involved in that event should be in normal work clothes or something mild.

Its like the difference between a christmas hat or the full fairy/santa.

anything goes at the Linton Travel Tavern.