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.

A costume for you :)

It’s all going a bit far isn’t it. I think it’s highly unprofessional and I’d walk out of any place where staff were dressed up in a bloody, gory way, after I’d made a complaint.

barbara

It’s the same with Christmas jumpers and bauble earrings.... tacky. Horrible. Shouldn’t be allowed!

It’s the same with Christmas jumpers and bauble earrings.

, not sure if intimating what can be these days very realistic gore is on par with a Rudolph red-nosed reindeer jumper but we'll just have to agree to disagree on that.

It's Halloween. People dress up in ghoulish outfits. Why on earth would you get offended by it?

I think YANBU. Looking at costumes for sale, I had the same reaction. Halloween is meant to be about the time when the veil is thin between this world and the world of spirits, hence dressing up as ghosts and witches. It's not a celebration of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

It’s all going a bit far isn’t it. I think it’s highly unprofessional and I’d walk out of any place where staff were dressed up in a bloody, gory way, after I’d made a complaint.

Do you make it a habit to such all enjoyment out of life?!

Perhaps the hotel informed their employees that they could dress up up at work if they if they wanted donated some money to charity, seems to be a common occurrence. Halloween is a good opportunity to do this

barbara but if I wore that costume I couldn't see things to be offended by

Just realised the photograph is from the back. Wonder whether the front is of pinhead from Hellraiser?

I’m paying a fortune for the experience and don’t expect staff to be larking about in fancy dress. It’s not Asda.

When did MN suddenly get to be such a snobby place?

Yanbu.

Morning! Not a single vampire, ghoul or zombie in this Premier Inn. AIBU to email the CEO.
Shoddy.

I agree op the costumes are vile

The people saying “people like to dress up on Halloween” are missing the distinction between vampires, ghosts, cats and witches, on the one hand and zombie makeup involving realistic portrayal of facial injury and decaying flesh on the other. I have a fairly robust sensibility and love a good zombie makeup job myself, but not everybody does and it’s hardly irrational to object to seeing someone with their flesh hanging off their skull.

Things you can’t avoid seeing, like checkout assistants and window displays should be U certificate until dusk on the 31st. It seems reasonable for people of a nervous disposition and easily freaked out small children to have to stay indoors for one night of the year but not longer.

I was out and about for work yesterday and went to two big corporate HQs, two fancy hotels, a premier inn, Starbucks, a cafe for lunch, a train station and Parliament.

There were people dressed up as zombies and nurses and dead princesses in all of them. It didn’t bother me at all - even the few and far between realistic ones are clearly not actually real; as the person is talking/moving/serving you coffee.

It’s one day of the year; it seemed to really cheer the staff up getting to wear something else and have different conversations to normal, and what to dress as is always topical - we have the walking dead etc to thank for the current zombie craze! Witches and cats are a bit tame for adults.

The best costume I saw was a whitewalker though, hands down!

and it’s hardly irrational to object to seeing someone with their flesh hanging off their skull.

It is irrational if it’s makeup.

Sub if you walk into a bank and see someone who appears to have blood dripping from their face, you may not realise it’s makeup.

Also children won’t always know it’s make up.

It’s all fine at a Halloween event, but not in shops/professional places.

I still can’t get over the dentist! I’d have walked out! Stupid person.

I used to really struggle on Halloween when I worked in certain jobs - I remember one year working on my own in a cinema box office and three guys in scream masks absolutely scaring the shit out of me quite deliberately. I bloody hate Halloween.

Slasher and torture porn movies are just make believe too - doesn’t mean it’s irrational to dislike seeing them and keep them away from your children.

I hate Halloween too. I think 'offended' is the wrong word for how I feel about overly gory Halloween costumes- more uncomfortable, uneasy and discomfitted. By all means dress up as a witch/cat/ghost/vampire etc... if you want too, but I can do without seeing excessive blood/gore/horror.

I chose NOT to watch that stuff in films/on tv harder to avoid if it's on the hotel reception and that's not on imo.

How high end op? The Ritz? The Dorchester? Claridges? The Mandarin? I dont think these places would dress up - but i might be wrong. Was there an event the hotel was putting on perhaps? Would it bother me? No, its just for halloween and its only a day. We cant all be friendly ghosts (and i say that with a terrible phobia of ghosts - should i be offended with people who dressed up as one?!) or clowns....

I think the rule should be that if you're working in an environment where there may be children then your costumes should be appropriate for them to see. There are plenty of things that you can dress up as that don't involve blood and gore and realistic wounds that will scare the shit out of a 4yo.

So if you work in an all- adult environment then you can probably get away with wearing X-rated costumes. If you work anywhere else, dress-up by all means, but have some empathy with those who don't want to have to deal with a hysterical toddler who won't sleep after seeing you, or who don't think that they should be served soup by someone with realistic suppurating sores.

I agree with you op I don't like to see facial injuries either there are millions of other things people can do for dress up.