Hey blog thread, I've been trying not to bitch about work to you too much, but this is ridiculous.
So they have me training someone for overnights, which is cool and she is pretty smart and learning it, and she just needs to do it maybe 4-5 more times before she understands how it works. Also, it's been really nice that there have been two (or three) people here because it really helps to relieve the amount of work that security has to do to help the front desk (they are the other department that is in at the same time as overnight front desk). Now, I get into work today at about 11:07, yeah whatever I was running late. So I go out onto the floor and see two of the evening shift people and the girl I am training for overnights. And I go up and say hi, and we chat for about 3 minutes before I learn that she was called at 1pm to come in at 2:30 to work, so I am now working overnight alone again. Also, I check to see how many people we have checking out tomorrow and we have around 245 check outs. Which means there are probably around 200 receipts to put under the guests' doors. Normally this would be done by the front desk, but since I am the only one here, and I can't leave the desk for 2-3 hours to deliver all these receipts, security has to do it. On top of this, security has to do this new bullshit thing where they have to go to every room that is not departing (around 630 rooms, six hundred thirty, not a typo) and slide some little card under the door. So that takes them around 4 to 5 hours, and then we are piling the delivery of receipts on top of that (and they can't even be done at the same time since they start their thing at around 1am, and the receipts don't print out until about 4am.
Also, I have to order a salad for lunch because if I order something hot it either sits under the heatlamp for a few hours while I wait for security to show up to watch the desk, meaning that the food is crusty and lukewarm anyways (again, I can't leave the desk) or I pick up the food and it sits in the back waiting for security to show up, meaning that it is now cold, although not crusty, still disgusting.
Good news though, I am going to probably start working for my stepdad and his friend's mortgage company, this will be a daytime job so I can stop losing my nights, also, I'll make more money, and there will be about 110% less bullshit. In the next 6 months I will probably not work at the hotel at all. I will be a loan officer, calling people who want loans, and I'll get commission for the first 3 months, then get put on salary if I do good. This means that I'll be doing both an overnight and a daytime job until I get put on salary, then I'm going to go to working only a few nights a week to train my replacement, or I'll just give them my two weeks and tell them good luck getting anything done since their other full time auditor doesn't know how to do 80% of the things that I do for the overnights. I have only worked here for about 3.5 months and I am already tired of this job and the bullshit that they pile on me.
