Anyone work in a hotel?

[riddler 0]

Reading Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Choke". He talks about if a hotel plays the Blue Danube Waltz over the lobby speakers, that's a cue that there's an evacuation emergency, and the employees are to get out. Anyone here work in a hotel, and can confirm/deny this?

Usually Palahnuik speaks in shades of truth, and sometimes he just makes things up. Just wondering if this is fact or fiction. Couldn't find anything on snopes.

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[shropshire 0]

Only by the hour

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[airtwardo 7]

if a hotel plays the Blue Danube Waltz over the lobby speakers, that's a cue that there's an evacuation emergency,

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Don't know about that..but if yer in an airplane and hear 'Easy Victor" on the PA.....cancel Christmas!

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[ryoder 1,590]

I worked at a Holiday Inn, and never heard of it.

Hospitals have "codes", e.g. "Code Blue", "Code Yellow", etc, which can be announced over the PA without alarming patients/visitors. Funny thing is that at the time I worked in a hospital, ('80's), these codes could be different from one hospital to another.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[Muenkel 0]

I worked in the Hotel Industry for 15 years and never heard of it.

We have been known to play "Hotel California" though.

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