It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Sunday, August 13
The big news at the hotel – and it’s as big as it gets, really – is that Chris was, a while ago, promoted to front desk supervisor (FDS).
I am not making that up!!!
Typical of Chris, he didn’t go announcing this…No one did, in fact – which is pretty typical here – because it became official last month and there wasn’t an email on it and we only found out because we asked…And we only asked because Chris was detailing something else he now has his mitts in and we were curious…This means, of course, that Chris must now be treated with the deference due an immediate supervisor and not like the lousy relief nite auditor he used to be.
We then noted the masterful way he conducted his ascension, from taking over the weekly Coke orders to redoing the No-Show Log to his composing the annual “bear aware” email…Chris nodded affirmatively, noting that his plan all along was to “worm” his way to the top which caused us to touch our nose and say that is the word we were about to use, too…Q, tho, remains assistant front desk manager…For now…Chris may have plans to weed him out.
Even more big news is that FDS Chris asked me if we would be open to working four ten-hour shifts a week instead of five eight-hour shifts…We didn’t even blink, saying you bet immediately…Even off the top of my head, it was plain we could adjust our schedule at the veterans service office (VSO) so that we could have consecutive days off…We were so gleeful that Chris said he would tell AGM Brandon that ol’ Sparrow not only said yes, but even did a jig, which is neither completely true nor completely false.
This was brought on by the fact the hotel might be hiring a new nite auditor, who would do three nites here and two at Hotel B, which was brought on when AGM Brandon was contacted by a chick who’s doing the audit someplace else and isn’t altogether thrilled with it and they need a nite auditor at Hotel B and four tens would allow her to get 40 hours a week…We gotta be honest, the prospect of four tens was really good for morale…We haven’t had consecutive days off in several years, since 2018 or so, whenever we got let go at the timeshare
We were three rooms from a sellout when we reported for duty, a bit of a surprise because demand has been high all month and those keeping score at home know that there’s a tuff call to make here: do you wait and to the audit in case you sell three rooms – and therefore sell out and get a bonus – or do you roll the dice that you won’t sell any rooms and do the audit at your normal time.
Well, Chris said it’d been slow for the past three or four hours, so demand wasn’t all that high, and we made the decision not to wait, tho we came really close to changing that decision…There was a guy who came in and said he needed a room but he had six people to sleep which was stupid of him because had he not said anything we never would’ve known…Anyway, we told him we could not put six people in a room with two queen beds, true enuff, but we’d give a deal on two rooms…He said let me go talk to the family and the answer was evidently no because they drove off.
We saw him again, tho, because his woman reserved and paid for the room with two queen beds online and if she’d’ve come in on her own without her man again, we would not have known the difference…But she didn’t and hotel policy, not to mention the city’s municipal code, hadn’t changed in the last half-hour and we couldn’t do anything for them…It was a prepaid reservation, too, but we told them to call the company and cancel and that we wouldn’t raise a fuss when the company called and asked our permission to cancel the reservation without charge…(This happened about a half-hour later.)
Later, there was an almost funny exchange with a guest with a sundry stand purchase…He had a pizza, two candy bars, and a soda – solid late nite snacking – and wondered if the total would exceed his room rate for the nite, a pretty funny line…We rang it up, pursed our lips and nodded while looking at the screen (itself not completely unfunny) and said “Ninety-three dollars”, not a Line of the Year Candidate, perhaps, but it got a smile out of the guest…It wasn’t $93 of course, but it was thanks to our new higher prices, $23, which is still pretty hefty.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1000 Sunday until 1800 Sunday…10.0 hours for the day, a fabulous start to the sleep week.
Like you, we were surprised at how early we fell asleep…Recall we got ten hours Saturday and regular readers of this crap know we’re usually up until mid-afternoon in these cases but we were yawning on the drive home and were nodding off after only a few pages of reading, so we took some melatonin to see if that would help matters along and it seemed to…The cat even appeared to be surprised.
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The Diary of a Nobody is a novel. All elements are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Anything else is a coincidence.
It was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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