Hello It's Me. I Think About Us for A Long, Long Time.
Hopefully most of you will get the song reference in my title. Very fitting since it has been a while since I have touched base. To quote an earlier post from loca, work has consumed my life. It's that time of the year that people are coming and going. Some are going on vacation. Others are quitting. So guess who is the go-to girl since I've done every shift and I'm so close to the hotel? Yay for money. Boo for no sleep. Case in point, it's 3:45 in the morning. I should be in bed getting ready to come to work at 7. I'm currently at work now because the third shift guy we JUST HIRED didn't show up. The guy on second shift asked the security guy to watch the desk until I came in in the morning. However, the security guy doesn't know how to do anything on the desk and is a slacker to boot so I just came in. My mistrust was validated when I come in to the security guy on his laptop in the parlor which is not even in the same room as the desk. So here I am, at work since 1:30 in the morning and not scheduled to leave work until 3 in the afternoon. However, since the front desk manager will need to be notified of all of this (second shift guy called him when third shift guy didn't show up but he didn't answer his phone as usual), I'm going to see if there is a possibility if he can cover the rest of first for me so I can go to sleep. Especially if there is a chance that I will have to do third properly tomorrow night.
I will preface this by saying that I'm so grateful to have the job that I have. One I enjoy for the most part and has been good to me in regards to school. I realize how lucky I am to have a job at all after struggling to get one (as most of you remember me lamenting at the time). It's not that I want to sound ungrateful because I'm really not. I'm more frustrated than anything. We have had a LOT of turnover in the last month. The front desk manager leaves on Wednesday (took a job in another town) so that will be the fifth person we have lost in about six weeks. I have a strong feeling that we will have more people leave before the end of the summer. Most left for other jobs, which I don't mind and completely understand. However, what bothers me is that a few just up and left without any notice. One day they were here, the next they were not. Not only does that bug me with the lack of professionalism, it also puts us all in a bind since we are scrambling to get shifts covered. I'm glad to be able to help out, I really am. It's just a lot to take in and my hours are all over the place so my sleeping schedule is very off. With so many people leaving and so many people coming in and needing to be trained, a lot has been put on my shoulders, intentionally or not. However, I'm up there in seniority so I need to step up and get things done for the sake of the team. I know people are worried that I'm being taken advantage of but no one is making me do something against my will. I just might have to learn to say "no" more often.
I will preface this by saying that I'm so grateful to have the job that I have. One I enjoy for the most part and has been good to me in regards to school. I realize how lucky I am to have a job at all after struggling to get one (as most of you remember me lamenting at the time). It's not that I want to sound ungrateful because I'm really not. I'm more frustrated than anything. We have had a LOT of turnover in the last month. The front desk manager leaves on Wednesday (took a job in another town) so that will be the fifth person we have lost in about six weeks. I have a strong feeling that we will have more people leave before the end of the summer. Most left for other jobs, which I don't mind and completely understand. However, what bothers me is that a few just up and left without any notice. One day they were here, the next they were not. Not only does that bug me with the lack of professionalism, it also puts us all in a bind since we are scrambling to get shifts covered. I'm glad to be able to help out, I really am. It's just a lot to take in and my hours are all over the place so my sleeping schedule is very off. With so many people leaving and so many people coming in and needing to be trained, a lot has been put on my shoulders, intentionally or not. However, I'm up there in seniority so I need to step up and get things done for the sake of the team. I know people are worried that I'm being taken advantage of but no one is making me do something against my will. I just might have to learn to say "no" more often.