Staff Meetings among other things
Today there was suppose to be a staff meeting - yeah right, who is our manager trying to kid. It turned out to be a handing out of the new uniforms. All I wanted while I worked the *winter* here was a fleece jacket - I asked so many times if we could have jackets instead of vests - it made more sense. Get this - everyone who is staying for the *summer* gets not one jacket - but two!! Perfect I freeze all winter and for the summer everyone gets two fleece jackets.
Already we are suffering the loss of Len, the piles of paper on his desk are growing - I keep suggesting to my co-workers we should really deal with everything we can then make sure the Operations Manager (or PR guy) has the rest. I think they are forgetting that it won't be delt with if it is just tucked onto the desk! Also between new girl A, who's favourite line is "I don't know.... I'm not sure... I really don't know" and new girl B, "yeah, um, uh-hun" I'm pretty sure I'm going to go nuts. The best part everyone is turning to me for everything - or maybe that's the worst. Either way I've got 9 shifts left.
My roommate is at it again - I've got two complaints this time. One: when you forget your keys at another apartment go and get them - don't wake your roommate up in the middle of the night to let you into the house. Two: if you are going to be involved with two guys - please don't make me cover for you with the nice one... Next time he calls I'll be telling him exactly where you are.
I'm getting to the point where I am avoiding my room-mate altogether. I go for walks with Abby and Maggie whenever I can, I go out with girls that won't stand to have her along, and I hang out at Matt & Lisa's or Jen's until I'm sure she's out. I can take it - only 10 days till moving day!
Going Away...
Last night was Len's going away party - well it was more of a gathering, but it was great none-the-less. Except my roommate was there and she managed to be the most rude that I have seen her lately. I think I have found my line and she just jumped over it with both feet. To make matters better I get home after and there I find her, totally wasted, with a bunch of guys and of course she forget her keys while going to the bar so she wakes me up to let her in at whatever the hell time it was when she got home. That it it!
However, last night I had another thought you never realize how much you care about people until they go. I hate saying goodbye. So Len, Good Luck, Take Care, Keep in Touch and keep in mind you helped make work in this armpit of a town bareable.
Good Lord the next two weeks are going to be tough....
Tired, no exhausted
I'm tired, actually tired doesn't being to cover it. Does anyone want to know what happens when you have a full hotel, and not enough front desk or housekeeping staff?? You get Len and myself doing both for at least 10 hours a day. That leads to exhaustion. In fact while I sit here I can feel my feet tingling.
So today I got a true understanding for what a housekeeping staff goes through - some people live like animals. I don't think I would have got through it without Len there laughing with me... The first room we walked into has a disaster - and it's not like we have ever cleaned a room before - we spent the first 5 minutes trying to control our laughter. The whole afternoon was like that - stagger into an empty room, laugh, control laughter, clean... repeat. We make a good team. I have one word of advice - you can never have to many pairs of rubber gloves - you never know what you will find.Good times to be had by all
Tomorrow's Len's last day - if my poor body survives until then we will be having a party (which I am pretty sure will be as fun as BINGO night...)
Today is the begining of the end
Today at work I managed to fix all the areas that everyone for the last few days screwed up. This morning I redid all the paper work from yesterday. This is only Len's day's off - his last shift is Monday - let the adventure begin. I am already sick of "don't worry Angela will fix it" and "Angela will explain it to you." No she won't - I'm not making enough and I already put up with too much.
Today the owner, who I have wanted to introduce myself to (simply because I am one of *15* employees), made an appointment to meet with the new girl. That is it.
I'm Done!!
I'm Free
I'm so excited - I made it out and into the city. Today I shopped, wore jeans with heels and ate edamame. I love every minute of it - I have no idea how I wound up living in such a small town but I got to get out.
I am a full time babysitter for a 30-year-old. My roomate did it again; in 24 hours she woke me up comming home at 2:15 in the morning when her dog went biserk because she was teasing it. She woke me up at 7:30 the same morning kicking the guy-de-jour out. While I was trying to eat breakfast she was telling my all about the "nasty sex" with the guy-de-jour. And then instead of thanking me when I found her bank card outside she got all defensive about when she lost it. I don't care when she lost it. Apparently I am not the only person who is pissed-off with her though - nearly everyone she knows is as well. Next weekend should be interesting her guy (the one with the kid and girlfriend) will be in town at the same time as her on-again-off-again boyfriend.
Heard the funniest guy being interviewed yesterday, he is a Muslim American and a stand-up comic. The news program showed a clip of one of his shows. It was great, something like this: "I am a Muslim American, meaning I am a devout Muslim but I am also an American, I would die for my country... by blowing myself up in a dunkin' donuts." It's kinda wrong to want to laugh, but he is a funny guy!!
Went and got food after work with Len the other night - we spent some good times "discussing" the problems of the workplace. Both of us are leaving and it is so good to have someone to vent with. It's not that there are any real problems, just a bunch of little ones that add up. The great news is both of us can laugh... and laugh... and laugh.
I know I have been in a small town too long, yes I realize it has been only 6 or so months (but, hey it has lasted longer than my being a vegetarian), because I regularly start sentances with "The other day on the food network" or "The guy from CBC said"...
I gotta go plan my escape!
Oh for the love of..
Work is going alright – ish, Len is finished in 15 shifts, he’ll be gone March 28th, and we have already begun the downward spiral into Gong Show. Where to begin – how about the new girl, which makes the one I was bitching about look like an employee of the month material. I’ve been training her and while she is really nice and I really like talking with her while we are on shift, she can’t type or answer phones. You think, seeing as our job consists entirely of typing and answering phones, they would have asked her on the interview – apparently not! To make matters better, we finally have the new system in a place where we can use it, *finally*. However it runs off the internet, which out here seems to be always not working. Great system; we just can’t use it.
Home life is going well too. I have come to the conclusion that my room-mate is morally inept. Her current guy has not only a girlfriend, but a child (whose mother is not his girlfriend). My room-mate is neither the girlfriend nor the mother and yet when I come home after work wanting to make dinner and curl up on the couch in front of the TV, I find it is already in use. The displays of affection I would usually find sweet I now find revolting… Maybe I’m the strange on – maybe that is normal; yeah that would also make her telling me that instead of teaching her dog to not eat underwear she stopped wearing it, normal.
My kitchen had been full of a fairly nasty smell lately, and it lingered long after I waded through *her* massive pile of dishes. The last straw for me was the fruit flies – I had already searched through all my cupboards and all the shared food cupboards – I started into her “random thing” cupboard. That’s where I found a bag of potatoes from last Aug. How do you forget potatoes for that long? It’s not like we have a big kitchen.
Good News though, my boyfriend is coming up to visit. I am so stoked. Someone who doesn’t find drinking and driving acceptable; someone who thinks drug usage is stupid; someone who believes sex should be with someone you care about (or at least with someone who is not in a relationship). Between him coming up and my getting to go to the city next weekend I feel like I have been given a Day Pass. I just got to make it to Monday.
Wrote the entrance for one of the J-Schools I applied to. I think I did okay – mind you there were some pretty tough questions: Who are your three favourite journalists and why? First of all how are you supposed to limit yourself to three and secondly how are they going to grade that?
Alright, short of some really great comments I have heard about current events, that is all that has happened to me in the last couple of days (I refuse to even mention my last time drinking at the ‘local dive’.). I would let you know those great comments from Rick Mercer and the rest of the stellar crew at the CBC but I had already typed them out once before my computer crashed... Maybe I will be motivated enough to do it again later.
