We all know customer service jobs can be grueling, thankless and downright demeaning at times, but in this story, one expected encounter made it all worth it.

When a hotel employee struck up an hour-long conversation about cars and motorcycles with a guest who just wanted real “dude talk” instead of family chatter, he had no idea the gratitude was about to come back tenfold with a lavish gift.

You’ll want to keep reading for this one!

Accepting gifts

Well I’m glad I didn’t call in sick tonight.

Was chatting with a guest about cars and motorcycles and we shot the **** for an hour. He was with his wife and kids and enjoyed actually talking about his interests for once and not family stuff.

So he was grateful — I told him his parking was waived because of the great convo, nothing but just dude talk ya know.

But this employee had no way of knowing what would come next.

20 mins later he’s leaving going drinking and hands me a watch.

Says his buddy works at Stirling, I think I’ve heard of them, but nope I was thinking Brietling.

I’m thinking a 50 bucks watch, not too bad, looks cool.

But, turns out, this watch was much more valuable.

Well about 45 mins go by and curiosity gets the better of me, I break out the ol’ phone and open Google Lens and Google shows me the watch and Stirling website.

I go to it and HOLY **** IT’S A $474 WATCH!!!!!!

This completely changed everything.

I don’t know if I can accept this kind of gift.

I thought it was a <$100 watch and here I have half a grand on my wrist!

To say I was shocked is an understatement…. I almost started hyperventilating.

I’m still unsure if I’m allowed to accept it….

This guy definitely wins the “Best Guest” award!

What did Reddit have to say?

Rich people always give the best gifts.

This user hopes this unsuspecting employee hasn’t gotten himself wrapped up in some kind of crime.

A gift is a gift as far as this commenter is concerned!

Maybe it’s best to keep this a secret from the other employees.

He almost called in sick, but instead he walked out with half a grand on his wrist.

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