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Sigh...your Uncle Khiras is desperately close to being incarcerated right now. This weekend is stretching my patience to its absolute limit, and I am not pleased at all. Feel my pain.
Edit: I should mention that part of the reason this weekend sucks is that there is a massive Halloween concert that is Fri/Sat/Sun of a band which attracts, shall we say, hippies. I can't say which (so as to not identify my hotel), but it's causing me quite a few problems...
Taxi!
This one isn't really an SC thing, but a shitty company thing. The hotel I work for is not in downtown Denver, and that is where all of the cab companies keep their headquarters. Since the cabs all want to get as much money as possible, they are doing a LOT of ferrying people back and forth from the bars once last call hits. To add to things, since it's Halloween weekend, there are a lot more people calling for cabs.
This means that the drivers, who selectively screen out any "outside of downtown" calls in the queue, will let us slide until much later.
To put this in perspective, one guy (who was an asshole, so I kinda enjoyed the third party antagonism) had to wait three fucking hours for his cab to arrive last night. Tonight, I already have 3 people waiting for over an hour for separate cabs. I don't expect it to arrive within the next hour either, since last call just hit downtown, and they are not going to be first priority for these guys.
So yeah...blows for them. I'm more indifferent, because for once, it's not my fucking problem.
I'm an asshole like that.
DST Strikes Back
Sigh...another non-SC rant, then I'll get in to the real stuff. I work the overnights here at (hotel), and every single time we do anything with Daylight Savings, I say the same things. Basic stuff: "make sure the doors are set to work", "make sure I have the info on how to fix the phones", and so on.
Every time. Every. Fucking. Time. The people during the day manage to fuck this up. It's always something different too. When the clocks jumped forward in April, they screwed up the stuff they needed to do during the day to make sure the phones updated (and by the time I found out, it was too late), which meant every single wakeup call was an hour late. The phones don't update tonight for another hour or so, so I don't know if they've fucked that up again yet. I do, however, know that they screwed up the door coding: every door in the hotel turned backwards an hour...one hour early, before my computers did. Which made every single key except the master keys stop working, so I got to spend a good hour running around the building like an idiot until, yay, every key mysteriously re-activated!
And, thanks to the time change adding an extra hour to my already long shift, I'm not even halfway done yet! YAY!!!
What is it with you and signs!?
There is a...I don't know. To paraphrase Mitch Fatel, I wouldn't call him retarded, but I would say he's about as close as he could get and still live alone. On top of this, the Pan-Galactic Dumbshit is also drunk. A lethal combination.
On top of that, one of our elevators broke yesterday, and will be broken until midweek. Oh, did I forget to mention that we have a few hundred idiots here thanks to a weekend long, 3 night concert? Well, you can sense that I, now stuck with only a single working elevator, am having a shitty time!
PGD, however, is making it worse. Every time I go to his floor, the idiot (and yes, I know it's him) has switched the sign that was taped to the elevator door advising people it is out has been moved to the other door. Which then opened, because it works, destroying the sign. It's also making people think that both elevators are fucked, so I'm getting random barrages of calls, to which I finally just responded "Sorry, there's an idiot who keeps switching the signs."
Random Drunkness
This weekend, so far, I have had all of these wonderful interactions:
-Idiot gets super drunk, carries giant bottle of Svedka (vodka) around with him. Gets stopped by a cop, pukes on cop, gets arrested. Evicted from the hotel for good measure for screaming racist epithets at the top of his lungs (locked out his room, and left him a note for when he sobers up letting him know that he will need a police escort to retrieve his items).
-17 different rooms, so far, setting off the fire alarms by smoking in their rooms. Evicted every room, and charged them our $250 smoking fee, because I am an angry god.
-13 different rooms all throwing huge night parties until well into the morning. 5 rooms evicted so far, the rest are on their final warning, so may throw out several more.
-Of the 5 rooms that we evicted for noise, 3 of them had people who managed to get themselves arrested by either annoying the cops, or in one particularly hilarious moment, trying to forcibly push the cops out of the room. And yes, there was a beating involved afterward, which I found satisfying...again, because the idiot there had been a douchewaffle all night.
-Pack of idiots decided that standing on our front sidewalk, right under rooms of people sleeping, was the perfect place to start screaming "Fuck the Police!" over and over again at 2am. Said pack of idiots was apparently unaware that said police were standing right behind them, and took a trip to detox. Again, I laughed, because they were annoying me. What? I'm an ass, we've been over this.
-3 random idiots found their way to the dining room area (which has all its lights off) and tried to go to sleep there, arguing with me when I kicked them out. Thankfully none of them puked in there.
-Sign Guy (Idiot who keeps moving them) decided to lay in the hall and play his guitar (badly) while singing. No cops on property, so I kicked him out of the hall, and warned him that cops could deal with his next bout of stupidity.
I'm sure I'll have more to post at the end of the night, but I had to at least post this before I went nuts. 6 hours to go...
Edit: I should mention that part of the reason this weekend sucks is that there is a massive Halloween concert that is Fri/Sat/Sun of a band which attracts, shall we say, hippies. I can't say which (so as to not identify my hotel), but it's causing me quite a few problems...
Taxi!
This one isn't really an SC thing, but a shitty company thing. The hotel I work for is not in downtown Denver, and that is where all of the cab companies keep their headquarters. Since the cabs all want to get as much money as possible, they are doing a LOT of ferrying people back and forth from the bars once last call hits. To add to things, since it's Halloween weekend, there are a lot more people calling for cabs.
This means that the drivers, who selectively screen out any "outside of downtown" calls in the queue, will let us slide until much later.
To put this in perspective, one guy (who was an asshole, so I kinda enjoyed the third party antagonism) had to wait three fucking hours for his cab to arrive last night. Tonight, I already have 3 people waiting for over an hour for separate cabs. I don't expect it to arrive within the next hour either, since last call just hit downtown, and they are not going to be first priority for these guys.
So yeah...blows for them. I'm more indifferent, because for once, it's not my fucking problem.
I'm an asshole like that.DST Strikes Back
Sigh...another non-SC rant, then I'll get in to the real stuff. I work the overnights here at (hotel), and every single time we do anything with Daylight Savings, I say the same things. Basic stuff: "make sure the doors are set to work", "make sure I have the info on how to fix the phones", and so on.
Every time. Every. Fucking. Time. The people during the day manage to fuck this up. It's always something different too. When the clocks jumped forward in April, they screwed up the stuff they needed to do during the day to make sure the phones updated (and by the time I found out, it was too late), which meant every single wakeup call was an hour late. The phones don't update tonight for another hour or so, so I don't know if they've fucked that up again yet. I do, however, know that they screwed up the door coding: every door in the hotel turned backwards an hour...one hour early, before my computers did. Which made every single key except the master keys stop working, so I got to spend a good hour running around the building like an idiot until, yay, every key mysteriously re-activated!
And, thanks to the time change adding an extra hour to my already long shift, I'm not even halfway done yet! YAY!!!
What is it with you and signs!?
There is a...I don't know. To paraphrase Mitch Fatel, I wouldn't call him retarded, but I would say he's about as close as he could get and still live alone. On top of this, the Pan-Galactic Dumbshit is also drunk. A lethal combination.
On top of that, one of our elevators broke yesterday, and will be broken until midweek. Oh, did I forget to mention that we have a few hundred idiots here thanks to a weekend long, 3 night concert? Well, you can sense that I, now stuck with only a single working elevator, am having a shitty time!
PGD, however, is making it worse. Every time I go to his floor, the idiot (and yes, I know it's him) has switched the sign that was taped to the elevator door advising people it is out has been moved to the other door. Which then opened, because it works, destroying the sign. It's also making people think that both elevators are fucked, so I'm getting random barrages of calls, to which I finally just responded "Sorry, there's an idiot who keeps switching the signs."
Random Drunkness
This weekend, so far, I have had all of these wonderful interactions:
-Idiot gets super drunk, carries giant bottle of Svedka (vodka) around with him. Gets stopped by a cop, pukes on cop, gets arrested. Evicted from the hotel for good measure for screaming racist epithets at the top of his lungs (locked out his room, and left him a note for when he sobers up letting him know that he will need a police escort to retrieve his items).
-17 different rooms, so far, setting off the fire alarms by smoking in their rooms. Evicted every room, and charged them our $250 smoking fee, because I am an angry god.
-13 different rooms all throwing huge night parties until well into the morning. 5 rooms evicted so far, the rest are on their final warning, so may throw out several more.
-Of the 5 rooms that we evicted for noise, 3 of them had people who managed to get themselves arrested by either annoying the cops, or in one particularly hilarious moment, trying to forcibly push the cops out of the room. And yes, there was a beating involved afterward, which I found satisfying...again, because the idiot there had been a douchewaffle all night.
-Pack of idiots decided that standing on our front sidewalk, right under rooms of people sleeping, was the perfect place to start screaming "Fuck the Police!" over and over again at 2am. Said pack of idiots was apparently unaware that said police were standing right behind them, and took a trip to detox. Again, I laughed, because they were annoying me. What? I'm an ass, we've been over this.
-3 random idiots found their way to the dining room area (which has all its lights off) and tried to go to sleep there, arguing with me when I kicked them out. Thankfully none of them puked in there.
-Sign Guy (Idiot who keeps moving them) decided to lay in the hall and play his guitar (badly) while singing. No cops on property, so I kicked him out of the hall, and warned him that cops could deal with his next bout of stupidity.
I'm sure I'll have more to post at the end of the night, but I had to at least post this before I went nuts. 6 hours to go...
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