It's MADNESS!! MADNESS, I TELL YOU!!

[Antisocial_Worker]

Okay, I've been at work about 40 minutes now, and here's the latest.

-- The first shift girl never showed and isn't answering her phone.

-- Our backup employee won't answer her phone.

-- The boss' sister and her husband have been working first shift.

-- The modem broke.

-- The computer wouldn't work.

-- We're out of printer paper.

-- The laundry girls left at noon, leaving about half a hotel's worth of laundry for me, and the boss' sister to do.

-- Somebody puked in the dirty sheets. They're wet and they smell. I discovered this when I picked up a big armload to stuff in the washing machine.

-- I can hear thunder outside.

-- The lady who was certain her jewelry box had been stolen last night thinks she may have actually left it at home.

-- A man with bowels of steel clogged the lobby bathroom toilet this morning.

-- Somebody in the restaurant had a seizure while I was eating lunch before coming to work today, and I had to call 911.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Wow, that sucks.

What's next, the flaming bees from your sig?

[Sliceanddice]

omg whats left... FIRE MONKEYS THATS WHAT!!!

[Antisocial_Worker]

4:57 PM -- The man in Rm 111 couldn't get his remote to work. I walked him through the process of getting the remote to work. It still didn't. I went down there to see if I could get it to work and couldn't. Seeing as a remote control is a crucial, can't-live-without item in today's world -- I mean, what is this? Hungary under the rule of Elizabeth Bathory or something? -- I had to lug another TV from another room to Rm 111, switch the TV's and take the TV from Rm 111 back to the other room, where I still couldn't get the remote to work.

The punchline? The TV whose remote would not work at all is equipped so that you can hook up a dvd player or a video game machine to the back. The TV whose remote did work is not. The guests in Rm 111 wanted to keep both TV's. When faced with the choice of keeping a TV whose remote did work versus one whose remote did not, however, they chose the TV with the working remote. As was to be expected. Anything less would be barbaric. Honestly. The very thought of having to change the TV channel manually makes my guts clench.

[Antisocial_Worker]

7:02 PM -- Because of the laundry situation, I'm discovering that numerous rooms do not have towels. I discovered that one particular room did not have washcloths when, in the process of delivering a rollaway bed to someone, a person stepped from their room, stepped up to the second-floor railing and shouted down at me, "Hey, chief! We don't have any washcloths."

Still pushing the bed, I yelled back, "I'll get some for you as soon as I can, sir."

Then I experienced a Stephanie Tanner moment when I muttered, "How rude!" out of earshot.

Also today, Sunday, is supposed to be the slowest day of the week. Last Sunday we had a total of 16 rooms taken out of our 46. Today, we're edging toward 36. This is likely because I don't want anyone to come in today, and I'm not in the mood to deal with customers. If I can just figure out how to genuinely want people to come in, then I'm sure the flow will dry like a spring in the Sahara.

[Antisocial_Worker]

10:25 PM -- The guests, a husband and wife, were lost, and needed directions. When they arrived, we discovered that, as usual, the room they booked online had come through the complete opposite of what they actually wanted. They did not want a smoking room and were not happy at the prospect of getting one. I was able to switch their smoking standard room to a nonsmoking handicapped-accessible room, the last nonsmoking room in the building. They left.

The husband returned. The room smelled "very strongly" of smoke. Is that just the way that nonsmoking rooms next to smoking rooms smell? I replied that it could simply that the room, after sitting closed up all day, has gotten stale. He left.

He returned. The room had no microfridge and according to our website, all rooms have them, and he wanted one. The only way to get him one was to move him to a smoking room, to which he agreed. He left.

10:35 PM -- As that guest was leaving, another one arrived to say that the carpet in his room near the sink was soaking wet. Could be a leak. Could be that someone let the toilet or the tub overflow, could be the water demon-beasts from a plane other than our own. He moved to another room.

10:36 PM -- As I write this, the central reservations system has gone down. This means that no reservations are getting into our computer, and communication between our computer and the central computers is a thing of the imagination for the moment. It's a nationwide system outage! What fun!

[Becks]

What fun. What excitement.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo...what's going on with first shift girl?

[BlaqueKatt]

w00T! I finally found a post that made me laugh enough to steal for a sig-unless owner of said statement makes me give it back......it followed me home can I keep it?

[Sliceanddice]

headhunter.... you now have killed any desire for me ever work in a hotel/motel....
and i didn't think it was that funny but ok.

[Antisocial_Worker]

What fun. What excitement.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo...what's going on with first shift girl?

Hell if I know. That shift is cursed. We had someone reliable who worked for several months before leaving to be the manager of a fast food restaurant. Then we got a girl who could not get through the witching hour, that nebulous tickle of dawn between 6am and 7am, without some major crisis including flat tires, housefires, plague (she was the proud mother of the two most disease-ridden little children on the face of the earth ), and -- really -- a supposed meteor strike on her house.

We fired her and hired a woman who was very eager to work AND bilingual. Her mother-in-law is one of the laundry ladies, even. She worked fine for a couple of months and then magically, she needed to take someone to the hospital nearly every morning between 6am and 7am. Her entire family is afflicted nearly every night. It's scary -- like the 10th Plague of Egypt almost.

We dropped her down to stand-by status, and hired a girl who used to work at the Dreadful Inn some time ago. The first morning she was scheduled to work she no called/no showed and we later found out that she had spent the night in the drunk tank at the jail, and this is probably also what happened this past Sunday.

The search is on again.

[Becks]

Oh. I see.

Most places have their worst employees on third.

Heh.

[TruthHurts]

-- The lady who was certain her jewelry box had been stolen last night thinks she may have actually left it at home.

Grr I've met people like that nothing feels better than being screamed at and accused of theft by some harpy only for her to realize she left it at home. And of course no apologies to the poor employees she terrorized before.