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Today, I would like to rant. A simple rant. See, today was a cacophony of confusion for me regarding one person:

John McFamous. Someone calls me at around 5ish AM stating that Mr. McFamous needs his reservation pushed forward by a day. Sure, whatever, we're booked up and it's not a huge issue since rooms are basically legal crack in our neighborhood and everyone wants some. So no fees, everything waived, etc. etc.

Then she drops this, "Now, given that Mr. McFamous is a well known VIP I'm sure everything will be ready upon arrival."

Hesawuttothewhonow?

I respond, nonchalantly, because I've written this person off as full of shit and not actually very important (hint, if I can't immediatel

Good morning ladies and gents,

I work in a smaller (<150 rooms) historic hotel in an extremely famous port city. Our proximity to another extremely famous, and important, city makes us even more popular as a town. And our hotel being mere steps from a popular local and tourist beach/ocean cliffside makes us a very popular hotel in spite of our many many, and I really mean many, flaws.

But with immense surprise, none of these factors play a role in todays story. Todays story that revolve around the prestige Ms. Karen, of Karen and Associates. A local law firm that specializes in arbitration, likely for made up issues like violating someone's right to privacy by filming them in public. Bu

I've asked in a variety of channels over the years, and am fairly confident in my assumption, but just want to cover all the basis; does anyone know the comparative complexity of cascading shadow maps vs ray traced shadows? Specifically with regards to real time graphics?

See, I've held the position, for about a decade now, that a transition to ray tracing is/was inevitable in real time graphics since ray traced lighting has less cost per shadow-casting light in the scene, let alone the associated costs of anything beyond hard shadows. However, I've never seen anything actually confirm that ray tracing algorithms scaled better than raster algorithms for shadow casting lights.

Does anyone h

I've had this one floating around on my shoulder for awhile, and it's honestly something petty. I recently started working at a smaller hotel as a night auditor. In this area night auditors are basically like gold. Hard to come by unless you find a knock-off. But regardless, I finished up their meager training, mostly getting to know their new system which is old news everywhere else and settling in. It's been a month or so now and I've been getting along great. Even wrangled myself a promotion based on an offer from another hotel, like I said night auditors are gold, and my performance.

Enter a random day recently where I come in and our front desk manager is trying to wrap up her shift, t

For some context, we've recently had our policy changed so that we're not allowed to use the internet at all on our front desk terminals. This is at a location where we are never allowed to leave the front desk except during graveyard where we're only allowed to leave to go do the bell desk or house keeping runs. No cleaning rooms thank God.

So now we're expected to sit through an 8 hour shift, and regardless of how busy it is or isn't just sit there and look pretty. No fun on the job. Absolute no joy will be allowed.

Did I mention we're not allowed to stay at our hotel? Oh but they said they'd give friends and family a discount. Go figure. Overtime goes without thanks, and we're bleeding