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

[Iris65]

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.

Totally naff and inappropriate in a work environment, I was shopping at Tesco earlier low end supermarket and some of the staff were dressed up, no one was collecting for charity so why did they need to dress up? .

If people want to dress up - fine, go to a party in your own time and dress up.

I would be seriously unimpressed if I went into my bank and the staff were dressing up (I work in a customer facing industry - actually for a charity - but wouldn't dream of dressing up).

Halloween and high end just don't mix. Not to mention that many adults find Halloween tiresome.
Sounds like this hotel gauged it wrong.

Is it too early to request this be moved to classics?

yes, I saw something weird on Twitter today - blood streaming from a woman's neck very realistically. It was a friend of a friend going to a party but it really took me by surprise - she has access to TV make up and special effects though.

I think it's fine to go to a Halloween party dressed like that but walking around dressed like that just seems bizarre, whether it's the Ritz or Aldi. For any company to have their staff dressed like that seems bizarre and as for the dentist ....!

I know what you’re saying OP. Ds was upset at the weekend when we were served by someone in a shop with a zip on their face with blood around it, and he’s really not a squeamish child. It’s a bit much when it’s horror movie style fancy dress in shops, restaurants etc. in the day, I imagine plenty of kids wouldn’t like it. No issue at all with fancy dress per se but not gory stuff.

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

Au contraire, I'm told that spirits find us fleshtoids' antics highly amusing, in a benevolent, "did we really used to be like that?" sort of way.

i would expect high end hotel staff to have highend costumes, not a sheet over the head or a £1 witch cape

And they have. They could have been extras on The Walking Dead.

The Dentist dressing like that has left me speechless.

in terms of "everyone will be dead" - yes but then there will be peace and quiet from this crap.

OP "They could have been extras on The Walking Dead"

ugh, yes, see, I couldn't watch that, I'm sure the storyline is good but I can't watch that kind of thing. I can't imagine a whole group of hotel staff dressed like that!!

There are lots of good reasons given here about why people shouldn't do this at work. The answer is for anyone who objects to complain with all those valid reasons. I have no problem with people dressing up scarily for a party, or with children dressing up for Halloween though I have my doubts whether really little ones really want to look scary, or see scary people.

I do draw the line at adults dressing scarily in public though, especially if they are in a customer-facing role. It’s ugly, childish and self-indulgent.

I was surprised to see tesco staff dressed up yesterday. They had face paint and looked like skulls. I really don’t like seeing people dressed in costumes and I have anxiety. I just try and ignore them.

I think it’s childish for adults to go around like this if they’re at work. Facial disfigurement and open wound makeup is distasteful imo. I can’t imagine how small children must feel seeing all this. When ds1 was small he used to proper freak out at Halloween stuff after the neighbour’s teens gave him a fright because he accidentally opened the door on Halloween one time. This was many years ago. Costumes have got a lot more realistic now so are even more ugly and frightening.

You think Premier Inn is a high end hotel???!!!! What a joke!

Creampastry I think the joke here is on you!

I used to enjoy halloween - pumpkins, witches, ghosts, bats etc but this recent trend for gore pisses me right off. It has ruined it. It is nothing to do with halloween as I know it and it is a step way too far.

Examples: local asda had a display if a torture/autopsy scene right near the toys and kids clothes aisle, right at the top if the escalator where you couldn't avoid it. It was basically a blood spattered table with a blood spattered female mannequin lying on it and a male mannequin standing over her and holding a big knife to her stomach. Apparently it never occurred to them that the many young children who frequent that store daily might be frightened or that it might be innappropriate. I assume they had complaints as it got changed to something innoffensive a few days later.

Also a soft play centre for young kids in a nearby town had their staff walking around dressed as texas chainsaw man and Jadon from Halloween. The owner apparently got arsey with parents who rightly complained - the local paper got hold of it. The owner was forced to issue an apology. I mean FFS - what level of moron...?!

Halloween can sod off now. The gory brigade have ruined it. I don't want my kids exposed to that.

I'm inclined to agree, those "damaging upsetting" costume should be confined to the reception desks of Premier Inn

Jason, not Jadon!!

It's getting way out of hand. I'll be glad when it's over for another year.

local asda had a display if torture/autopsy scene right near the toys and kids clothes

My lord ! I was served by an evil burnt mutant in Starbucks today

It's all got a bit much hasn't it

I hate this stuff, I am really squeamish and my children find it frightening. I don't want to see it in the supermarket, in shops or hotels or on Facebook. YANBU

You think Premier Inn is a high end hotel???!!!! What a joke!

You obviously haven't read the thread.

Laiste - omg, I just spotted your post about chopped off heads and hanging bodies at your local soft play!!! WTAF????? I would have been fuming if I took a young child to a child based place and they had obscenities like that infront of the children - I am really appalled. I would be complaining my arse off about that one. Totally unnacceptable!! Have the people who run these places forgotten that children are still children? What the fuck are they trying to achieve, totally traumatusing every child that walks through their doors?? It makes me so so angry. Where has people's common sense gone? I find this glee some people have in blood and guts really baffling, and disappointing. It feels like we haven't moved on from the days of people going to see an execution for a day out. It's uncivilised and horrible.

I must admit, I don't like the fake injuries either, especially when it was only five months ago so many young people were involved in the M.E.N attack and recent London attacks.

I organised the Halloween decorations for a pub (no liscence of children) and swithered and swithered over some realistic spiders! No danger would I have gone for body parts or an autopsy scene. Honestly people in charge of this should think about their customers.

In the end it was a massive fluffy spider and many little spiders and fluffy bats. Nothing hidden to catch people out.

I’m going to demand a pay rise.

Which hotel is it? I've just been in Claridges and all I got was a cook book.

Special snowflake