Needing Employees

Okay why is it so hard to find good employees? I can interview people, I tell them about the job the benefits, the duties of the position the hours. Give them a full description, analysis if you will, and yet no matter what, the moment they start, about a week later they quit. This is a hotel job! I know that it is late night job...night audit, but this is probably the easiest shift that there is! All you do is run some reports, set wake up calls, deliver check out folios, and fold laundry. Most of the night goes by so fast, I crocheted a blanket during the audit cause I was so bored, it's easy and it pays well.

The market is doing great here in Lewisville, however the gas prices seem to be what is keeping people away. I love the job, am making a career of it, I know that I don't always agree with my boss, but that always makes for interesting days. It wouldn't be a job if you loved absolutely every aspect and did not have your "bad" days.

I'm just tired of always thinking that I have found the perfect person, the begin getting trained with me, I put in long hours to train them and to try to get my own work done only for a week later when they are about ready to be on their own, they quit. Why is this? Why don't they go home and think about what they are getting into... Ask around to other employees of the hotel industry and try to see if they absolutely love the job, what the benefits are and figure out if you really want the job.

I am tired of having to put in 16hour days in order to cover all of my shifts. I know that it's part of my job but I'm tired. Wonder what would happen if I quit, just stop showing up and the rest of my incompetent employees quit. Wow GM would definitely be in for a surprise...

Where to start... Well I did get promoted to an Asst. General Manager at the Residence Inn. I started to work there on December 6 for that bitch Donna Walker...ugh. I found out about two days later that I was pregnant...man was I nervous. Rumor had it that Donna hated children I did not tell her til after christmas took me a couple of days before I could even tell Matt!

The year has just been dominated with alot of drama everywhere to get to the jist of everything, Donna quit, I had a boy and I now work for Patsy. This past year has just gone from month to month I always wanted to quit but kept facing the problem that no one would really hire someone so pregnant that they would have to leave soon.

Carrying Nathan was rather hard on me this time around, he was born lighter than Leila at 6lbs 13oz and 20inches. He was born on August 1st, and I really could not hold out any longer. With Leila I felt healthy all the way til the end, running up and down flights of stairs everyday countless number of times all the way till Leila was born. With Nathan, I had to actually go on maternity leave 1wk and half before I gave birth to him because it literally hurt to stand up with him still in me, I would go into contractions if I walked at all. This was actually the month that Donna quit so it was extremely hard trying to run the hotel when I could go into labor at any time.

Matt had a hard time adjusting to the fact that we were going to have a second child, we had only wanted one and were actually protecting ourselves from another pregnancy...but nathan wanted and needed to come into existence and he is a complete darling!

I kept getting promised promotion after promotion but I kept getting shafted, almost like they were trying to just keep me in position working for the evil bitch Donna. It was jusst hard working for her since she never wanted to give me any real control over anything. Now I work with Patsy who wants to have all of the control but at the same time does not want to have any. She wants to cause drama, but not be around when it pans out into something. She wants to see how someone else would handle the situation instead of handling it herself. She is way too concerned in trying to make herself appear awesome to Carlos that she is neglecting doing her actual job. Instead of checking a room and saying hey this is dirty let me talk to the housekeeper that cleaned it and make her clean it again. She comes to tell me hey the room is dirty...why? I just have to go and talk to the exec housekeeper to watch her ladies more closely because they are leaving dirty rooms. Why have a middleman?

Same thing is said for guest situations and front desk issues...she goes out to all sales luncheons goes out to lunch everyday, and has time to leave early, but clearly does not know how to enter anything into the system, how to do payroll, or even put the monday mailings together. Well anyways I will be having an interview today at 3PM for a GM position, hopefully I will nail it and I won't have to work at this wretched place anymore. You know after I gave birth I only took two weeks maternity leave, when I got back my office had been moved to a little cubicle that is probably smaller than my bedroom closet! They really suck for doing that, I wanted to take at least 3 weeks leave, but I got conned into coming back after two. Sucks should have stayed at home.

I am in such a bind now!! I have no idea what to do! I have been wanting promotion after promotion and that is just me, to always ask for a promotion because I know that I am capable of doing the job. However, the person that I would be working for would be a total bitch if I were to go ahead and take this promotion, and I know that I would not have job security. However I would be moving up and that is exactly what I want to do. I just don't know what I want I know that I am capable of doing the job, I just don't know if I want to change right now, I love working where I am at, of course there are problems with my AGM but it's nothing where I would consider leaving like my last job.

Work can now be so confusing. I have no idea why, when I started this job I loved how realistic everyone was that I worked with. Now I'm just not so sure. I work with a particular person that I felt we were becoming really good friends. She would call me just to talk tell me about her personal life. It never interfered with work either, we both did our own job and that was that. But of course I love to learn so a few responsibilities that used to be hers then became mine, because the GM felt that I was more capable to deal with those responsibilities. Slowly but surely she stopped talking to me as much as she used to. She used to invite me to places now, she invites the SM who by the way talks shit about me behind my back but to my face I'm the best thing ever.
However, I have been talking alot more to my GM, who I used to be really afraid of, I still am, but not as much as how I was afraid of him. He has really been bragging about me how I am his protege, and how like him I am. He has really been talking to our Area Director at how I like to learn thing and how quickly I pick up on them. Really cool thing because now my area director really likes me and has been bragging to his Regional Vice President about me and they all seem to be on agreence at how bad ass I am. Now the area director even asks to see when I am working to try to test my knowledge over the areas of the hotel, really cool stuff. So I have really good reason to be happy, however since I work with my AGM in the same office I have tried to not talk to her as much, but she's just a downer never really talks anymore or says anything.

I never really know how to start these things. If I only had the time to update it a bit more I probably would not have to say things like alot has happened since... Leila is now 13months she started walking at 10months and it seems like only yesterday she had to roll around to get where she wanted to go. She does so many things, we just can never seem to stop laughing at her, she truly is a godsend. Since last time I got promoted shorty after my last post to a Sales Coordinator and about a month and a half later I was promoted to Operations Manager. I have now been in the position for about 5 months and it seems to be going well. I am definitely learning alot, the only thing that seems to be annoying me now is that no one else seems to want to do their work. Since I am so anxious to learn new things, I keep getting things passed off on me where no one else wants to do them anymore. Or the things that I used to do are no longer getting done and it seems like that is acceptable way of being now. I can't stand it, and yet when I show that I am annoyed, people get upset thinking that I am not doing anything.

It's weird trying to describe all of this without naming names and I know that it has been bothering me for a long while now so I think once I am not so sleepy from covering someone else's shift I will go ahead and explain myself. For now I will just wait for my coverage and retire to my house.

Just alot of emotional turmoil

I know that it has been a while since I last posted up an entry. But as a recap, Matt and I have now been living in Dallas for a year, we now have a daughter named Leila who just turned six months. She is the joy in both of our lives and we really could not have imagined our lives without her. She gives each of our lives purpose and meaning. We no longer worry about which movie we are going to see over the weekend, but what new thing we will experience with our daughter, every day is a miracle with her. Her learning to smile, laugh, roll, and eat solids. soon she will be crawling, walking, talking and soon potty training. I started a job with the apartment industry, but a year later I quit because the stress was just too much, the managers just seemed to have multiple personality disorder, I really could not stand it, plus I did not have enough time to spend with Leila. Now I work for the Marriott Courtyard. It's fun, I remember now what it was like being in that industry and I realized how much I missed it. I have been promised a promotion as long as I can stay a front desk agent for 6 months then I will be an operations manager making more money that what i was making at Huntington Lakes. Which I did have to take a monetary cut back when I took this job, but I had to measure the consequences and I really just could not have stayed at Huntington Lakes and remained sane, so I took the position and am really glad that I did. The people that I am meeting now are genuinely nice and caring, they are asking for nothing in return and Matt and I love Lewisville, which is the area in which I took this new position. Matt will be taking a new position in Mesquite, he stayed with Starbucks for almost a year and then started to work at Microcenter, now his friend Wes is offering him a job in Mesquite doing drafting for a stereo company which will give him a considerable raise and hopefully we will be in a better position that what we currently are.

At the moment we are in dire need of a new car. The ford tempo that we acquired from Matt's dad has had absolutely everything go wrong with it. From the alternator, to a belt, a transmission and now the computer, and it has had just about everything replaced, but of course it's not enough, it has not even reached 100,000 miles and all of those things have gone wrong with it. I keep telling Matt you know we should probably trade it, and he tells me no, let's fix it nothing else should go wrong. I know that we do not have the money right now, but we do need a different car, one that is reliable and will not leave us stranded everywhere. I don't really know what to do, or how to get the money in order to get that new car, but I know that we desperately need one, or else one of these days we will not be able to get to work because of the lack of transportation. As of right now though, I have borrowed my parents truck and we are using that as a back up. So much has changed now, we don't really have to many friends here in Dallas, but then again, when I got together with Matt I did not see too much of my friends in Houston, but I knew that I could see them when ever I wanted to, now I know that I can't see them and it's all different. I do miss them, and I want to be able to go out every now and then, but I know that I have responsibilties both as a wife and a mother. There are things that I don't even want to do, such as cleaning or cooking.

There are days where I long for us to go out of town to someplace new, and just spend the night at the hotel without telling anyone that we were going anywhere, but just arriving. I remembered, Matt and I used to do that alot, we would never really even leave the hotel room, because of how much we wanted each other. Now I just wish that I still looked attractive. I have stretch marks all over my belly so I no longer feel comfortable about my looks and now I get hemmorhoids, how great is that? Not something that I want to go bragging to my friends about, but it's all true. I just want us to go out and have fun again.