Thank you so much for this. I, too, work the night audit in a hotel in Canada, and admittedly, the people in our hotel are more likely to be middle aged people traveling with a tour group (I live in Banff), but we do get the occasional weekend rowdies. I've had to deal with drunken guests, with having to knock on the door and remind people that ffs, it's 3am, so be quiet, etc. So far, I've been very lucky - in the almost five years I've worked here, I've maybe had to call the cops 5-6 times, and most of the time, everything was handled quickly and quietly.

But I have had times when there was a noisy room and I just couldn't bring myself to knock on the door, because I could hear the guy yelling at the girl, and then when the thumping noises started, I just went back to the front desk and called the cops, because I was afraid of what might happen if I knocked on the door and someone came at me. And this is where what you've said comes in - people might look at me and see me as "the night auditor," someone who is in a position of sort of authority, or they might see me as "just a girl," who can be disrespected and treated like shit because, after all, she's "just" a girl. And all the "I think I can take care of myself" in the world won't help if someone's truly determined to do something bad, and so many of the people involved in this argument just don't get that.

I'm rambling, and probably not making a lot of sense, but again, thank you for saying this.