AIBU to think Premier Inn should’ve let homeless in.

[Oddish]

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/premier-inn-homeless-people-turned-away-customer-paying-westonsupermare-a8240171.html

A woman who couldn’t make her mass booking of 19 rooms due to the weather last week offered the rooms to the homeless in the area via a charity’s Facebook.
A couple who had a flooded home were also given a room.
Flood couple let in no problem, homeless people who attended with charity rep were turned away.
Now Premier are saying they needed the lead room booker to be there and ID to be presented which is obviously bollocks because the flooded home couple were allowed in with no problem.

AIBU to think they should’ve let them in, it was bitterly cold and I think they acted heartlessly. Then the backtracking that followed. AIBU to boycott them? Would you?

Lady - I've decided the OP must work for Starbucks!!

Travelodge in my part of the world were used by the council to House homeless last week. Why should PI be different if arranged by that channel? I know because I talked to a very cold young homeless lady and she told me that is where she had stayed the night before. I arranged with a cafe to feed her and she brighten3d up and agreed with my suggestion to go back to the council for assistance that night.

A lot of the comments here don’t stack up if TL did it.

I speak to and help a lot of homeless especially after a post not long ago by a former homeless lady on Mums net.

Virtue signalling in this way is actually quite patronising and insulting to homeless individuals. Like if everyone just adopted their own 'pet homeless', bought them a greggs pasty and a coffee, and paid for a couple of nights in b&b, the problem would be solved. The best minds in the country are still researching how to best help the entrenched homeless. Pisses me off when woolly do-gooder hippies float past when you're the wrong side of a 12 hour shift being called a cunt because you won't let them smoke crack in the TV room and offer well meaning, utterly bullshit advice for everyone to just be a bit kinder.

So someone says they wouldn’t let a homeless person in their house because they have kids. Well maybe there were kids in the PI.

On the surface of it it would be lovely to let them in.

But I don’t think homelessness is PI’s problem to sort out. There needs to be better homeless shelter provision, or even better than that better ways of getting such people into more permanent housing.

Your naivety is actually really irritating.

You have no clue what you're talking about, evidently. And you certainly shouldn't be anywhere near homeless people with addictions if you're giving them money "for their little pleasures."

That is condescending, patronising, and dangerous.

You have a lot of growing up to do! And a lot of deflation of that ego of yours. This story has been plastered everywhere, so I doubt you swept in and brought it to people's attention!

And then she has the gall to admit that she wouldn't let any homeless in her house because she has children when she has previously stated that homeless people are people too, and she doesn't shield her children from them, and just anyone could be homeless...

But I wouldn’t let any strangers stay in my house overnight, I don’t think that applies to a hotel.

I’ve apologised for seeming to ‘virtue signal’, I am doing this for attention? Why? No one knows me and the attention is largely negative. It’s not wrong for me to say I have bought this story to peoples attention - it’s true! You might never of heard of it unless I’d linked it, and I’m not oh so proud of myself for that, why should I be? What makes people decide what I ‘must’ be thinking/feeling/doing. I don’t care that there’s been a pile on here, I’m glad you read the story and thought about that and I also don’t care if you think that makes me smug.

I think the original main point has been lost. It was the coldest night of winter, I’m not saying PI should be a year round homeless shelter, I’m discussing the humanity. I have learned from this thread and in my disgust I absolutely didn’t think it through logically. For me, it’s been a helpful discussion. Assumptions and insults aside 💁🏻‍♀️

As for working for Starbucks? Nah, I avoid them too. Only organic coffee, picked by free range monkeys, in a biodegradable cup and paid for in random acts of kindness for me.

I think that you find my being naive as you say irritating madmags says more about you than me. Find something to really get upset about. Or direct it at me. Whatever floats your boat.

That’s interesting 2bees I know first hand that my local council uses travelodges as hostels for council tenants as a good friend and her daughter were placed in one. I wonder if they’d have been turned away if they’d turned up to PI that night.

I'm afraid this story put me off the idea of helping homeless people directly

Travelodge in my part of the world were used by the council to House homeless last week.

I'll take a wild guess that the staff in the Travelodge weren't just the overnight receptionist, but that people from the council's social services department were present. There's a huge difference between using rooms, but providing skilled staff, not just expecting one overnight receptionist to deal with the issues.

It’s not wrong for me to say I have bought this story to peoples attention - it’s true!
Well it was on the news and the story was all over the place so most people that don't live under a rock would have heard/read about it.

I agree with LadyinCement, 0ffredgotaway and MadMags last comments.

Please listen to people that actually know what they are doing, maybe if you did some volunteering for homeless shelters you could gain some insight. I'm aware you said you volunteer, but your lack of knowledge says different.

I am listening zero , as I have stated. Sad that you just wanna join in with the pile on.

No, not sad. It is my opinion. Your posts don't show you're listening, sorry but they just don't.

But you carry on feeling that everyone is having a go at you if it makes you feel good.

That’s not how I feel zero I don’t care if anyone ‘has a go’ at me. Hide of a rhino here.

I just don’t feel that you’ve bought anything be to the discussion. But yes, you’re entitled to your opinion, however stale.

Ok then.

PI were in their right and I would likely do the same.

I've dealt with guests sent to hotels ive worked for who have needed emergency accommodation and apart from families it has always led to trouble.

One sold drugs from their room and another started stalking a female member of staff.

Your are guilt tripped into helping or cant say no due to social media backlash. But if you have ever had to console a housekeeping who got pricked with a used needle you'd be jaded too.

The hotels ive worked for have been branded propertiea of a higher standard than PI to put in perspective.

Look, you did NOT bring it to most people’s attention because people were aware of the story already from the news, social
media etc.

My uncle is homeless. He is a kind soul underneath, who has suffered form some really crappy circumstances and severe mental health issues. We cannot have him stay in our homes any longer, he is not safe. The thought of him on a hotel full of people is worse.

Not all homeless people are in the same circumstances and people who think that any commercial company or for that matter individual should have to throw open their doors to all are naive and self righteous.

Look at what Rose ? I’m glad there is a discussion about it here on MN. I must remember to be more careful with my words when people on here get so literal just to get a jab in

Oddish
Councils do use hotels for homeless accommodation and there have been times when it has gone horribly wrong. The Cerys Yemm murder is clearly an extreme but other posters have highlighted possible issues. If PI were not geared up to deal with people with potential complex issues then they were right to refuse.

You said you had bought this story to peoples attention. Rose is saying that's not true. Pretty obvious what she means.

I haven’t heard of it going wrong chaz I will look that up. It’s a shame, it was a lifeline to my friend who couldn’t renew her private tennancy and had to rely on the council to house her & dc, she found it much preferable to council hostel to be able to lock herself into room & have own bathroom.

Lol you bored zero ?

No, are you?

You wanted to feel good about yourself, you seemed to think you knew/know better than professionals. People have pointed out your virtue signalling and naivety, now you're pretending to not understand some posters, and are trying to be clever and nonchalant about it.

Yes I am currently bored, hence me engaging with your raging. There are many other things I do to feel good about myself, venturing into AIBU isn’t one of them, I’m not a masochist.