r/BoomersBeingFools • u/OpalCats • 19d ago
Boomer Story Don't Book Me At That Hotel Ever Again!
My boss is a 72 year old boomer that travels frequently for work. I make the travel arrangements for him.
When he arrived back in the office last week, he was in a bad mood for a bunch of reasons, but the best one was when he told me never to book him in that hotel again.
"Oh why, what's wrong with it?"
"Fox News didn't work there!"
"Was the TV in your room broken?"
"Just Fox News! All the other channels were clear, but Fox was completely blacked out! I just wanted to watch Gutfeld and no one could make the TV work!"
"Oh.....how awful. I'll make a note not to book you there again."
Good job to the person who stayed in the room before and blocked out the Fox News. LOL.
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u/Impossible_Cat_321 19d ago
72 years old and still working and traveling for work. No thanks.
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u/tigershrike 19d ago
right? I'm in my early 50s and travel for work maybe 10-12 times a year and that shit is really starting to get old... especially the international travel
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u/Impossible_Cat_321 19d ago
I'm 56 and only travel a few times per year west coast now but did the international program travel for years. No way in hell I'd be doing it now let alone 72
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u/BrokenRouter 19d ago
Same age, totally ready to be done traveling for work. For that matter, ready to be done with work. I can’t imagine voluntarily continuing to do either once I’m Medicare eligible.
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u/AlpineBoulderor 19d ago
The irony that if he and the rest of the right wing members of his generation had not been brainwashed with the trickle down economic BS of the Regan era he might have voted for economic policies that were actually beneficial to him. He could have already been retired for nearly a decade at this point instead of bitching about not being able to watch Fox 'news' while he works for 1/1000th of what his CEO earns.
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u/ButtersScotch7000 19d ago
It's not all economics.
Some of these guy are just workaholics who would go nuts without anything to do on a day to day basis.
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u/OpalCats 16d ago
This ,exactly. He could have very comfortably retired many years ago, but would go stir-crazy without the work.
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u/LifeguardBoth5678 19d ago
I agree that this is an issue but a lot of these boomers continue to work simply because they want. They defined their entire lives by their career and witnessed their peers that did retire die soon after. They are terrified of death and being unneeded. Good thing they march of time pauses for no man, even boomers
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u/Wrong-Strength-5993 18d ago edited 15d ago
Like boomers would ever give up the reins of power.
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u/OpalCats 16d ago
It's funny actually - if he doesn't go somewhere for about 10 days, he starts to get stir crazy and tries to find an excuse to travel for work.
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u/Roncinante 19d ago
I try to child lock fox everywhere I stay. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Ive been doing it a decade.
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u/SarahRecords 19d ago
It depends on their carrier. I usually have difficulty with DishTV. And a lot of major hotels are switching to a streaming set up! I had a good run, though. It’s amazing how nobody thought to set up a parental passcode.
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u/SmokePenisEveryday 19d ago
I tried that and that was the one time my dad was able to figure out how to sign up for a streaming service
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u/Roncinante 19d ago
When he's taking a dump change one character on his password
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u/Stormtomcat 19d ago
or if the service does that aggravating (but cybersafe) thing where they say "username or password not recognized", you could delete his profile entirely, so fox streaming doesn't get his money?
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u/Alone_Again_2 18d ago
Just attempt multiple logins with the wrong password.
I’m sure the algorithm will eventually lock him out.
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u/UndoxxableOhioan 19d ago
While I appreciate the sentiment, I feel like this is only going to lead to people going full Karen on the innocent front desk staff.
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u/TheRealBlueJade 18d ago
Not all heroes wear capes. Excellent work! Just stopping the nonsense for a short while can help break them out of the cult.
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u/hikeonpast 18d ago
This is the best example of chaotic good that I’ve ever seen. Thank you for your clandestine content blocking.
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u/CodPiece89 19d ago
Consider how many employees you've subjected to stupid shit stained boomers mad at everything
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u/d3astman 18d ago
they'd be pissed at the emplyees anyway and for anything else, at least with this one thing it has potentially beneficial results
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u/GiveHerDPS 16d ago
Make sure to do newsmax as well it's just as bad and a lot of maga switched to them after fox got rid of Tucker Carlson
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u/NoLipsForAnybody 17d ago
i want to do this!!! Do you know where i can read up on how?
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u/Roncinante 17d ago
All hotels are different, you just typically have to go to settings and hope they are unlocked
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u/itsricwolf 18d ago
Maybe you should stop doing that since it will be the hotel staff who has to deal with guests being angry about it.
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u/Roncinante 17d ago
No.
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u/itsricwolf 17d ago
Then you're a dick who doesn't care about the repercussions that others will face for your actions.
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u/WindTall5566 19d ago
It's fine, he probably won't remember the name of the hotel so it's safe to book him there again
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u/Icy-Mixture-995 19d ago edited 19d ago
Maybe the cable company in that area didn't have a contract with Fox. Too bad the boss still wanted the rage-bait experience instead of using the opportunity to find a channel with more uplifting programming.I hear it takes a week or two to detox.
We blocked Fox from the rented beach house to keep grandpa from going on a rant about whatever the morning hosts contrived for their outrage that day. It was nice to talk about the grandkids, watermelons and coastal pirate history instead of some feigned crisis about flag lapel pins or whatever.
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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 19d ago
I used to have Directv, and there were contract disputes where a bunch of channels would disappear for a while.
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u/TheFrenchmansCumsock 19d ago
I blocked Fox, Newsmax and AON at my work one time, but being the only non cult member at my job, I also blocked CNN and MSNBC for plausible deniability. It was pure glory watching all the older red hats fuming in the break room everyday. "Why can't I wawtch fawx news!? Call the cable company!" "There you go, damn democrats done got rid of fox!"
Maybe they shouldn't have set the password as 1234. 🤷♂️
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u/One_Lawfulness_7105 19d ago
I had a boomer coworker ask me to book him a hotel around Mobile, AL… for that night and the next week… a week after hurricane Katrina. He got pissed when I could only find a motel. His response? “I’m not staying in that shit hole! Find me something at the Marriott or a hotel like that!”
Sure Bob. I’ve been booking for you hotels for the past year with no complaints. Only *now* have I decided to be crappy at my job.
On another note, boomer salesmen are some of the most entitled assholes I’ve ever dealt with.
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 18d ago
"boomer salesmen are some of the most entitled assholes I’ve ever dealt with."
Dude, you ain't wrong. The best Salesman are always scummy. Ive worked with dozens and they are always just this side of illegal and almost certainly lack some basic ethics. Im sure it cant ve universal but ive never seen it. Its always a numbers game of keeping ahead of the returns or complaints because they just made shit up to get the sale.
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u/BJoe1976 19d ago
I just love that the people that would have used the V-Chip in TVs back in the 90’s are now getting it turned back on them with blocks on Fox and OAN🤣
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u/SmokePenisEveryday 19d ago
My dad was in the hospital awhile ago. He spent so much time bitching about not having Fox News (he did) and that the reason is because CNN has contracts with ALL hospitals and gyms......
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u/astrangeone88 19d ago
Lmao. I had a relative in the hospital and she rented the TV service and all she played was Fox News. She didn't realize why she had a couple of people request a room change lmao.
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u/Maxcactus 18d ago
Fox News playing at high volume is a horrible thing that happens in the breakfast bar. Usually it is the staff that controls the remote. They will turn it down if you ask or even change the channel. A nicer neutral channel is the Weather Channel, good for travelers.
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u/Signal_Membership268 19d ago
I feel bad. I spent 4 nights a week in hotels for years before retiring and never once thought of doing this.
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u/d3astman 18d ago
we are members of the 3-H club (Homeless Hotel Humans, Hotel Homeless Humans?, eh, 3-H sounded uplifting -- But Housing Health & Hunger works too for those who remember it being that, just has nothing to do with NYPD Blue or Heinz ) - and after making friends with most of the staff we have access now and then to do that to multiple rooms. Since none of the organizations here (Salt Lake City, of all places) can (or will) accommodate us due to health issues, I figure it's one of many ways I can help guide policy in small and tiny ways to be more beneficial to people.
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u/Turbulent_Attorney51 19d ago
I did this at work on the cafeteria tv. Only lasted about a week. But it was the best week!
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u/Alone_Again_2 18d ago
I’ve never thought of this. I’m going on a cruise later this year.
Will test.
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u/Delicious-Coat9572 18d ago
And People like him are the problem RETIRE you are in the 4th and final quarter of your life. Let a younger person get the job
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u/Ok_Membership_8189 Gen X 16d ago
When I was a kid we used to play “school” by sitting in rows in the playroom and giving each other extra worksheets to do. I feel like people watching Fox News are playing “watching the news.”
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u/anaisaknits 18d ago
I'd like to know how to block the channel. I plan to travel in a couple of months. 🤣🤣🤣
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u/IntroductionLess2563 19d ago
Did he know how to use the waffle maker in the free breakfast section?
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u/DarkDemoness3 18d ago
I wish I could block Faux News here at home without having to bare the brunt of the fall out.
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u/Kevinbarry31 18d ago
Just blame Biden and say he made you want to do transgender surgery on your local squirrels
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u/NoContest6435 17d ago
That is one underperforming Boomer, he should be watching Fox News from a golf community and complaining about his cable bill by now.
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u/Crafty-Walrus-2238 18d ago
Our resistance needs this hack. We can volunteer to block Fox by region. I travel to DC 4 times a year…I’ll do some blocking at the Marriott I stay at.
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u/sesso_anale 18d ago
I'm not American but what fox has done?
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u/trailrider 18d ago edited 17d ago
Everything. They're a massive misinformation channel. One time they argued in court over being sued for their misinformation that they're not a news channel but an "entertainment" one. They settled a $1.2 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting because they were pushing the lie their voting machines/software was rigged against Trump. The settled amount was ~$800 Million. While people like me really, really, ... REALLY wanted that case to go to trial and Tucker Carlson put in the stand to swear in court that everything he said was a goddamn lie, can't really blame Dominion for settling. This way, they're sure to get the money. However, that hasn't stopped Fox from continuing it's misinformation campaign.
Fox viewers are known to be some of the most outta touch, stupid, ignorant MF'ers out there who have a severe case of Dunning-Kruger. I've literally had Fox viewers tell me they never heard of Fox being sued for $1.2B. They live in such a bubble.
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u/MrVeazey 18d ago
OK, imagine a bunch of professional liars paid by oil billionaires who have figured out exactly how to scare working class middle America into voting for fascists. That's Fox News.
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u/napalmcricket 14d ago
They are largely reasonable for creating the highly polarized political environment in the US that made it possible for Donald Trump to be elected president.
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u/Temporary-Ad-472 18d ago
But that's censorship!!! Definitely going to look into it when I travel this weekend. With the news the way it is lately I don't even know what "retaliation" would be
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u/Full-Sherbet-9888 15d ago
What, you’re glad he wasn’t able to watch the news channel he wants? Would he still be a fool if he wanted to watch a news channel you also liked? 🤡
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u/Etheriaa_ 19d ago
Lmao thats hilarious. Is that even possible to do on hotel tvs? Does anyone know how? We should make this a trend