Meet Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, March 14
The fur is starting to fly in the pitched battle between Amy and Q in the reward club enrollment contest…When I reported for duty Q advised he had zero enrollments for his shift and that Amy has pulled to within two…He also said he suspects Amy of signing people up without their permission, either after they’ve declined or without asking them in the first place.
This is some primo front desk gossip – even a loser like me realizes that – with Q adding some research on his part showed two of Amy’s sign-up came at 0430 and 0500 in the morning, odd because most enrollments are done at check-in and there are seldom any check-ins at that hour tho, obviously, the prospect Amy signed them up at check-out cannot be entirely dismissed…Q added he is going to discuss the matter with Brandon who has to have better things to worry about.
That virus deal is starting to affect business…Two of the reports I generate after the audit each morning concern reservations made and canceled the previous day and the reservations made report consisted of half a page while the canceled report consisted of over five pages and Q – on top of everything, as usual – said we’ve lost over $16,000 of business this month alone…I told him he’s senior to me so that when I get laid off he’ll be working the nite audit five nights a week, which he didn’t find funny at all.
No small amount of the cancelations were for tonight…Occupancy was only 48% which is average for the slow season but the lowest ski season total since Jean-Claude Killy was in diapers…Folios took three minutes to deliver altho I was pestered off and on thru the night…One guy wanted a comforter for the pullout couch in his suite and – fortunately and not surprisingly – there was one in the back office…One lady needed champagne glasses and left the distinct impression a personal visit from the night auditor would be welcome…There were also a couple of sundry stand purchases…No one who bothered me wanted to sign up for the rewards club.
Morning Coffee Service (MCS) was out early, of course, and as usual I alternated the water pot used…There are two hot water pots (along with five coffee pots), one is plain silver aluminum colored while the other is identical to the coffee pots except for the Hot Water label…There are a couple of school of thoughts here: one, you put the identical one out there for appearance’s sake: it simply looks better than the silver one…HOWEVER, it is not unprecedented for a guest who has either just woken up or is stupid to mistake it for coffee…This doesn’t happen with the silver pot – even with some of the wizards from the assorted work crews that stay with us – but it doesn’t look as good as the other one.
It took a while, but I finally decided on how to wear my new cell phone holster…Recall my fancy-pants leather one broke about ten years before I thought it should have and I replaced it with a $10 nylon one that I was immediately pleased with…It’s versatile, too, able to rest on your belt perpendicularly or so the pouch faces either forward or backward and regular readers of this crap may – or they may not – recall I did no small amount of field testing to decide which way I wanted the opening to face.
Testing on this vital matter actually ended a week or two ago and it wasn’t a tuff decision: having the phone slide in from the front seems entirely more natural than backward, so convenient the choice was actually made for me.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 0900 Saturday until 1830 Saturday…9.5 hours for the day and 40.5 hours for the week, the lowest Sleep Week total in the memory of man…And we were lucky to get that…Recall the week started so slow that only a late rally got us above 40 hours for the week.
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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