11 Stories · Password: starwood
01
🎒 How I Got the Job
Walking into the Westin Seattle in 1997
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02
📻 940 to Base — Radio Check
The language of the bell desk
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03
🐪👑🧸 The Saudi Beanie Baby Mountain
The Saudi royal family arrives
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04
☕ The Coffee License Fiasco
What it takes to make coffee at the Westin
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05
🐊 Gator in a Box
A package arrives at the bell desk
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06
☕ Coffee, Kerouac, and the North Cascades
Reading on the graveyard shift
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07
🥤 The Milkshake License Incident
Room service at 3am
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08
📚 Tolstoy at 3am
War and Peace on graveyard
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09
🥂 Turn and Burn
New Year's Eve · 900 rooms · one night
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10
📻 Graveyard Radio
The 2:17 AM moment. The Modest Mouse connection. Seattle 1997.
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11
🤼 Monday Night at the Cantina
Marco, the volume knob, and the night accounting came downstairs
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A note on these stories
These are personal memoirs drawn from memory of events that occurred between 1997 and 2018 at The Westin Seattle. Names of colleagues have been changed or omitted. Some details have been compressed or reconstructed from memory. These stories reflect my own recollections and perspectives — they are not statements of fact about any institution or individual, and are not affiliated with or endorsed by The Westin Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, or any related entity. Any resemblance to specific individuals beyond the author is coincidental.