Here’s something concrete
Just a pointless little update because I feel like lately my journal has been filled with fluff but no concrete entries.
Work at the hotel has been the same old, same old for the last few days. I’ve been making up a lot of memos for the front desk staff because I am HUGE on communication. That, and I hate coming in at 3PM to see that somebody fucked something up on the computer the day before and didn’t bother to leave any pass-on info about it. So then I have to take even MORE time to first figure it out, and then fix it because more often than not it gets more fucked up when you let the night audit process it. >___<
And I have been making up a lot of “master copies” for forms that we probably should HAVE on hand instead of writing little notes on scratch paper all the time. I also got all the marketing done for January 2006. I was assigned to do all of 2005 by a manager at another property but as I recall, when I looked at all the reservations we had over 12,000 entries. I said FUCK THAT. I will do 2006, and continuously make sure that is current. But there’s no way in hell I’m gonna waste my time on 2005 you fuckers. Overtime or not. :/
I will be happy to get my five days back at the hotel once that goes into effect in about a week. I talked to the woman doing scheduling, I told her in a nutshell that I’ve been bending over backwards to help out wherever they need me and that now all I asked for scheduling was 2 things: that I get my full five days a week, and that my two days off aren’t consecutive. That was for the plasma donation scheduling--you can donate two times in a week, but they make you wait like 48 hours before you can donate again. So the schedule was made up, and I got my 5 days back. :D and I get Mondays and Thursdays off. I would have preferred Mn & Fri but apparently Dena, the pregnant 20-yr old, said he doctor said she couldn’t work Fridays. What. The. Fuck. What’s the fucking difference which day she had off? She works on Mon & Thurs, same shift . . . Please somebody explain that to me. She also doesn’t have to work Saturdays OR Sundays. It makes me mad because she doesn’t even TRY here & she is unhappy at guests, where HERE I AM, putting my heart and soul into my job and maybe I would like a weekend off every now and then but NOPE. Apparently THAT is crossing the line for a year and a half of loyal service. : (
Still working on getting some more time over at Copy Central, but maybe it's not so bad--maybe I will just have to sign up to do plasma earlier in the day, so that I can do that and then go straight to work at 3 at the hotel. Hm, that might be an idea--never really thought about it like THAT before. I have Wed & Friday off from Copy Central, so maybe I can put it to good use . . . I also need to check to see if I am allowed vacation hours over at Copy Central. I've been there for over 2 years, you would think that would be good for SOMETHING. I’ve been unofficially put in charge of filing there at the copy shop. I know this sounds lame, but that makes me feel really happy. It’s like I have something that they trust me with, something I’m completely in charge of. I did pretty much all the files for 2005, and now that it’s 2006 I have to make up all new manila folders for each account that does direct bill charges. I’m such an office geek. I dig office types of jobs. And since I am only at the copy place for 3 days a week it kinda worries me just a little bit that some other worker is going to step in on my file system and fuck things up. This one chick Sam who works there got bored & started filing and she put things in so crooked that they were covering the names on the folders and it was a mess. I’m sure she didn’t notice, or care--just needed something to do it DID it.
In the meantime, though, I have been catching up on sleep. Part of me thinks it makes me feel lazy, and part of me feels really rested finally. I've shorted myself SO MUCH on sleep for the past year or two that this is a REALLY nice change (yeah even though I haven't been working, which is a drawback)
Another thing I think I forgot to mention thoroughly is that I am moving. Again. This will be the NINTH time in about 3.5 years. That is a lot. This isn’t the “big Vancouver” move--this is moving about a block away from my current place (I was a little sad when I moved in because I thought it was dirty, outdated, and not that well maintained, compared to that apartment I just came from which was so clean that it was practically clinically sterile!). This new one for February 1st (hopefully-me & Lynn are crossing our finger and she is SO FUCKING excited, MUCH more than me because I do this all the fucking time and it’s just not fun or exciting anymore) will be cheaper (okay, and SMALLER) than our current place, but it’s going to be renovated this month with all new everything (or so we’re told). Goodbye 1971 carpeting!! :O So now that I have so much extra time off work, I have been trying to “streamline” my belongings by going through all the shit I have in boxes and tossing all the stuff I don’t need. Either that or give it to Lynn (who doesn’t have a lot of anything--either she lives modestly of her housekeeping job doesn’t afford for many extras), or donate it to the Salvation Army. I feel so bad throwing shit away if somebody else can use it at all. Ya know?
Work at the hotel has been the same old, same old for the last few days. I’ve been making up a lot of memos for the front desk staff because I am HUGE on communication. That, and I hate coming in at 3PM to see that somebody fucked something up on the computer the day before and didn’t bother to leave any pass-on info about it. So then I have to take even MORE time to first figure it out, and then fix it because more often than not it gets more fucked up when you let the night audit process it. >___<
And I have been making up a lot of “master copies” for forms that we probably should HAVE on hand instead of writing little notes on scratch paper all the time. I also got all the marketing done for January 2006. I was assigned to do all of 2005 by a manager at another property but as I recall, when I looked at all the reservations we had over 12,000 entries. I said FUCK THAT. I will do 2006, and continuously make sure that is current. But there’s no way in hell I’m gonna waste my time on 2005 you fuckers. Overtime or not. :/
I will be happy to get my five days back at the hotel once that goes into effect in about a week. I talked to the woman doing scheduling, I told her in a nutshell that I’ve been bending over backwards to help out wherever they need me and that now all I asked for scheduling was 2 things: that I get my full five days a week, and that my two days off aren’t consecutive. That was for the plasma donation scheduling--you can donate two times in a week, but they make you wait like 48 hours before you can donate again. So the schedule was made up, and I got my 5 days back. :D and I get Mondays and Thursdays off. I would have preferred Mn & Fri but apparently Dena, the pregnant 20-yr old, said he doctor said she couldn’t work Fridays. What. The. Fuck. What’s the fucking difference which day she had off? She works on Mon & Thurs, same shift . . . Please somebody explain that to me. She also doesn’t have to work Saturdays OR Sundays. It makes me mad because she doesn’t even TRY here & she is unhappy at guests, where HERE I AM, putting my heart and soul into my job and maybe I would like a weekend off every now and then but NOPE. Apparently THAT is crossing the line for a year and a half of loyal service. : (
Still working on getting some more time over at Copy Central, but maybe it's not so bad--maybe I will just have to sign up to do plasma earlier in the day, so that I can do that and then go straight to work at 3 at the hotel. Hm, that might be an idea--never really thought about it like THAT before. I have Wed & Friday off from Copy Central, so maybe I can put it to good use . . . I also need to check to see if I am allowed vacation hours over at Copy Central. I've been there for over 2 years, you would think that would be good for SOMETHING. I’ve been unofficially put in charge of filing there at the copy shop. I know this sounds lame, but that makes me feel really happy. It’s like I have something that they trust me with, something I’m completely in charge of. I did pretty much all the files for 2005, and now that it’s 2006 I have to make up all new manila folders for each account that does direct bill charges. I’m such an office geek. I dig office types of jobs. And since I am only at the copy place for 3 days a week it kinda worries me just a little bit that some other worker is going to step in on my file system and fuck things up. This one chick Sam who works there got bored & started filing and she put things in so crooked that they were covering the names on the folders and it was a mess. I’m sure she didn’t notice, or care--just needed something to do it DID it.
In the meantime, though, I have been catching up on sleep. Part of me thinks it makes me feel lazy, and part of me feels really rested finally. I've shorted myself SO MUCH on sleep for the past year or two that this is a REALLY nice change (yeah even though I haven't been working, which is a drawback)
Another thing I think I forgot to mention thoroughly is that I am moving. Again. This will be the NINTH time in about 3.5 years. That is a lot. This isn’t the “big Vancouver” move--this is moving about a block away from my current place (I was a little sad when I moved in because I thought it was dirty, outdated, and not that well maintained, compared to that apartment I just came from which was so clean that it was practically clinically sterile!). This new one for February 1st (hopefully-me & Lynn are crossing our finger and she is SO FUCKING excited, MUCH more than me because I do this all the fucking time and it’s just not fun or exciting anymore) will be cheaper (okay, and SMALLER) than our current place, but it’s going to be renovated this month with all new everything (or so we’re told). Goodbye 1971 carpeting!! :O So now that I have so much extra time off work, I have been trying to “streamline” my belongings by going through all the shit I have in boxes and tossing all the stuff I don’t need. Either that or give it to Lynn (who doesn’t have a lot of anything--either she lives modestly of her housekeeping job doesn’t afford for many extras), or donate it to the Salvation Army. I feel so bad throwing shit away if somebody else can use it at all. Ya know?