| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online audio file |
| Playing Time |
08:03:09 |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 115723 KB) or OverDrive Media Console (file size: 226533 KB). |
| Summary |
In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry. Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late check out, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your mini-bar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. And in Heads in Beds, he pulls back the curtain on the hospitality business, revealing the crazy yet compelling reality of an industry we think we know. It is an incredibly funny, authentic, and irreverent chronicle of the highs and lows of hotel life and boy, is there a market for it: in 2010, the American lodging industry generated $127.7 billion in revenue. ... |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Tomsky, Jacob -- Anecdotes.
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Hotel clerks -- United States -- Biography.
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Hotels -- Employees -- Biography.
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Hotels -- United States -- Humor.
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| Added Author |
Tomsky, Jacob.
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| ISBN |
9780449807101 sound recording OverDrive Audio Book |
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9780449807101 sound recording OverDrive MP3 Audio Book |
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