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7 Signs That Your Travel Agent Was At Buzz Night Last Night

Travel Agents are known for their ability to party well into the wee hours, whether it be a Saturday night conference in Kuala Lumpur – or a monthly awards night at the Shelbourne Hotel, in Sydney’s CBD – on a Wednesday.

Travel Agents are known for their ability to party well into the wee hours, whether it be a Saturday night conference in Kuala Lumpur – or a monthly awards night at the Shelbourne Hotel, in Sydney’s CBD – on a Wednesday.

The thing is though, Travel Agents age; as do our livers, and these monthly work functions seem to make it harder and harder to back up the next morning for a productive day at work.

Since I’ve been around the traps for over ten years, I’ve become a master a masking my hangover so I can continue to service my amazing clients all day long – whisky breath, or not.

If you spot a Travel Agent doing any of these things below, you know they probably celebrated (too) hard last night.

 

1. Powerade, Gatorade, Lucozade, any ade really

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If you spot a half-filled bottle of blue, red or orange liquid on a Travel Agent’s desk in the morning, it’s not because he hit the gym for a mad sesh before work.

He’s actually replacing electrolytes so he doesn’t faint.

 

2. Bacon

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Fried pork is the hangover breakfast of champions. You probably won’t see it, as he’ll probably be sneaking bites out the back when there aren’t any customers in the shop, but you can smell it.

 

3. Multiple unfinished coffees

After the sports beverages and the bacon, your hungover Travel Agent will hit another barrier by 3pm – staying awake.

His boss knows this and will keeping pumping him full of caffeine so he stays upright.

 

4. It’s busy

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The golden rule of being hungover at work is that it will always be busy.

A brace of river cruises; a gaggle of Contiki tours and a twenty-stop RTW airfare will be locked in – all before lunch break.

 

5. He’s wearing yesterday’s clothes

This is also a clear sign that he probably didn’t make it home to his own bed – although that doesn’t always mean he got lucky, a lot of Travel Agents live far from where they work, so perhaps he decided that getting a cab to Bankstown at 4am just to get changed and showered wasn’t really necessary – or he got lucky.

 

6. He didn’t even ask for the booking

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The hungover Travel Agent generally switches on the autopilot, which is a possibility these days due to the increase of simple point-and-click systems (try booking a RTW ticket ten years ago while hanging and using only Galileo).

This means he can forget a step of the sales process every know and then, even the important ones – like asking for the booking – alert (and more experienced with hangovers) Team Leaders might swoop in and finish the job if this is the case.

 

7. Panadol within reach

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Every good Travel Agency will have a good first aid kit at the ready.

These are rarely used for actual emergencies, but the giant bottle of painkillers generally gets passed around during the morning meeting and then makes the rounds during the day.

What was your best/worst Buzz Night experience?