AviationGeeks.com - Close that robe!

SUNDAY'S New York Times featured an op-ed by Jacob Tomsky, a writer who spent years working in the hotel business. Mr Tomsky argued that incidents like IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid last week in Manhattan are surprisingly common in the hospitality industry:

I’ve worked in the luxury hospitality business (from New Orleans to New York, from valet parking to front desk to housekeeping management) for 10 years, and I know that the country’s 250,000 housekeepers are in a difficult position. They’re often alone on a floor, cleaning a vacant room, back to the door, the vacuum’s drone silencing all sound. A perfect setup for a horror movie.

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