First day back at work in a week and it’s already wild. The new guy non-assistant is obvs gone and the new girl hired while I was gone had her first full training today and she didn’t even stick around until the end. This job isn’t this hard, no really, but I just can’t seem to keep someone longer than a month.
Tag: work stuff
The new guy (aka my non-assistant) just tried calling out because he’s too hungover from his birthday celebration yesterday.
WTF.
I already owe my manager a Dr Pepper because I’d optimistically assumed he’s come in today, but now I’m betting on the side of I’ll never see him again. Which is a-okay with me because I’m pretty livid and don’t want to see him again.
So now I’m channeling all that angry energy into completing the tasks he’s supposed to do on his shift because I don’t trust him.
The new guy at work is supposed to make my life easier, not harder, yet the month he’s been here makes me wish that I didn’t have another person and instead was just doing everything on my own.
He’s been here a month and yet he’s making day-one rookie mistakes (out of the blue! On things he’s done plenty of times before!) that mean I waste a lot of time doing the things he should have already done or fixing his mistakes.
Granted, there is a learning curve. I get it. I’m patient and willing to find new ways to communicate and train so something will stick. But just when I think we’re on the same page and getting somewhere, I end up spending half my day on something that should have been completed last night and wouldn’t have taken very long at all then, but because I have to squeeze it in between all the other stuff I do, it takes forever.
I don’t know how many times I can explain something or say “hey show me what you think this task means so we can figure out the disconnect together” or be like “you’re still doing this wrong and I don’t understand why because you’ve shown before you understand how to do it correctly.”
I’m closing Friday and then opening Saturday. *pre-emptively cries tears of exhaustion*
Workmate called in for the third day in a row and tbh I’m not sure if I’ll be calling her a workmate much longer. I can understand being unable to find a baby-sitter at the last minute because of schools being closed for snow, but she didn’t even call today and we were like, “uhhhhhh, okay, does she even know she’s supposed to be here at all?”
So I’m cranky and tired because I’ve been the lucky one who not only gets to do my regular job but also pick up her slack. It isn’t all that bad, considering it’s a slow period, but still. Kinda frustrating when I just want to know that people will be reliable and stick around for longer than a week.
Electricity’s out at work and apparently had been since 1am. The power company is working on it and it should be up and running in an hour but we’ll see. All the battery backup has died, too.
This is gonna be a fun morning.
One of the girls who was hired to do what I do when I’m not here quit without notice and everyone’s scrambling to cover next week because I’m like “hahaha no overtime thank you I am going out of town!”
It’s the slow season so we’re not too bothered, since I can barely find enough to do as it is. And I’m not crying about her leaving because she was really frustrating to work with and kept making serious mistakes even though I kept teaching her how to do it properly. She also told everyone where I hid a secret stash of pens (because no one can keep a pen here to save their lives and I need them for guests to fill out forms). It was a secret stash for a reason!
She also made me realize that a ten-year age-gap really makes a difference in terms of experience and responsibility, and even though I act like I’m allergic to responsibility, I am more of an adult than I give myself credit for.
Basically no tears for her quitting but not eager to see what kind of schedule I’ll have for the next couple of weeks until we can hire/train someone new.
The last couple of weeks we’ve had ~150 guests in house.
Today we have 20. Or we will have, once everyone arrives, because right now there’s 12.
I’m happy for the slow season because I’m just beginning to recover from the holiday season, but I’m also wondering how I will fill my time today.
I’m training another person today. Wahhhhh. And I’ve got a cough and feel mildly terrible so was just hoping to get through the day, but instead have to be “on” and talk nonstop. Sigh.
Someone apparently has abandoned their dog with us. WTF. Who does that, especially when they made a point of rescuing him from a kill-shelter in the first place?
And he’s a total sweetheart and lovebug. We haven’t had any issue with him at all – except for the fact we’re unable to contact the people who dropped him off for the “weekend” and now it’s a week later.
If I could have a dog in my apartment, I’d totally take him home because I fell in love with this cutie the moment he happily snuggled up to me as I was getting him settled into his room. He’s better behaved than half the so-called purebreds we get.
I’m just so angry that they thought they could use us like that. Why rescue a dog if you’re just going to abandon him?
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