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Hotel companies are characterized by the existence of an organizational boundary between work on the scene, in interaction with customers, and in the backstage. The dramaturgical approach is particularly fertile in order to highlight the different rules governing work in these two regions. At the same time, in luxury hotels, the cut between scene and backstage is accompanied by a social division of labor, based on criteria of generation, gender and “race”. The professional logic of scene and backstage employees depends on recognition at work and on the constraints of the service relationship. In companies whose barriers between scene and backstage are more rigid, employee resistance strategies behind the scenes generate more tension which fuel their antagonism with those of the scene.