Why Not to Work at a Hotel.
I'm completely grateful for the fact that I have a job. It took long enough to get after all and even now I'm having a hard time with money. The one thing I hate most about my current employment, I have to work with irritable people who have most likely been driving all day and really just want to sleep. However, more often than not, these same people expect the world to be handed to them on a platter!
Imagine this scenario:
A two story hotel, during holiday season (i.e. opening of pheasant hunt season through the first few weeks in January) 10:58 p.m. A group of people all traveling in the same car, all women, come into said hotel asking for rooms. Not just rooms, first floor, single, King-sized non-smoking rooms. After hearing there are not first floor rooms left the become indignant, as though the hotel clerk has something to hide, maybe that clerk is actually lying, we dont' see that many cars in the parking lot, we're older, we need ground level rooms. The group of women continues to bitch and moan until they all settle for separate rooms on the top floor, which really isn't that hard to get to.
Now, I understand that they are older, but in your 40's you should still be able to climb stairs. The stairs are not an issue. I do however find that when these women have been riding together in a car for who knows how long that they do not need separate rooms, really, that' a waste. You're all friends get the fuck over whatever insecurities you're having and stay in rooms with two double beds I think it would be okay for one night. Ok fine, the hotel makes more money when the ladies are picky as shit, so what, well that is fine and dandy until it's later in the night and someone with a disability or an Elderly couple comes to the front desk wanting a single room on the bottom floor and we can't give it to them. These are people who really can't go up the stairs, so what am I supposed to do with MY conscience when I tell them they have to trudge up some stairs and break their frail osteoporosis ridden bodies? All in all, they don't need ground floor rooms.
Scenario 2:
Another hotel is full and they happen to be located near ours. Every person from the other hotel that gets denied comes directly here because it's in a generally near proximity to the other hotel. Problem that keeps coming up... We charge much much more than the other hotel.
When people come in and bitch about how much we charge they don't realize that they have absolute freedom to go wherever they please. Oh how terrible it must be to take a road trip and be tired from forced family interaction. Take it back to the beginning, how much did you really need to drive across the country/state of Kansas with your car full of screaming children and your ridiculously over-sized american dream SUV? Why spend money on "family vacation to see other parts of the family we don't care enough about to live near" when you could save that money and take your over materialistic family somewhere they'll actually enjoy, a beach, far far away from Hays, Ks.
I know I sound unbelievably bitchy about all of this and yes, I understand that some families live apart because of jobs or other circumstances and sometimes people are actually nice and not demanding when they come in to get a room. Those are the people I'm ok with, they're usually nice and quiet, check in check out. And I also know that not everyone is going to be disgustingly annoying.
I don't know why, though, I put a disclaimer on this. A long post of me bitching about my job! Tune in, tune out, later for stuff about my life!
Imagine this scenario:
A two story hotel, during holiday season (i.e. opening of pheasant hunt season through the first few weeks in January) 10:58 p.m. A group of people all traveling in the same car, all women, come into said hotel asking for rooms. Not just rooms, first floor, single, King-sized non-smoking rooms. After hearing there are not first floor rooms left the become indignant, as though the hotel clerk has something to hide, maybe that clerk is actually lying, we dont' see that many cars in the parking lot, we're older, we need ground level rooms. The group of women continues to bitch and moan until they all settle for separate rooms on the top floor, which really isn't that hard to get to.
Now, I understand that they are older, but in your 40's you should still be able to climb stairs. The stairs are not an issue. I do however find that when these women have been riding together in a car for who knows how long that they do not need separate rooms, really, that' a waste. You're all friends get the fuck over whatever insecurities you're having and stay in rooms with two double beds I think it would be okay for one night. Ok fine, the hotel makes more money when the ladies are picky as shit, so what, well that is fine and dandy until it's later in the night and someone with a disability or an Elderly couple comes to the front desk wanting a single room on the bottom floor and we can't give it to them. These are people who really can't go up the stairs, so what am I supposed to do with MY conscience when I tell them they have to trudge up some stairs and break their frail osteoporosis ridden bodies? All in all, they don't need ground floor rooms.
Scenario 2:
Another hotel is full and they happen to be located near ours. Every person from the other hotel that gets denied comes directly here because it's in a generally near proximity to the other hotel. Problem that keeps coming up... We charge much much more than the other hotel.
When people come in and bitch about how much we charge they don't realize that they have absolute freedom to go wherever they please. Oh how terrible it must be to take a road trip and be tired from forced family interaction. Take it back to the beginning, how much did you really need to drive across the country/state of Kansas with your car full of screaming children and your ridiculously over-sized american dream SUV? Why spend money on "family vacation to see other parts of the family we don't care enough about to live near" when you could save that money and take your over materialistic family somewhere they'll actually enjoy, a beach, far far away from Hays, Ks.
I know I sound unbelievably bitchy about all of this and yes, I understand that some families live apart because of jobs or other circumstances and sometimes people are actually nice and not demanding when they come in to get a room. Those are the people I'm ok with, they're usually nice and quiet, check in check out. And I also know that not everyone is going to be disgustingly annoying.
I don't know why, though, I put a disclaimer on this. A long post of me bitching about my job! Tune in, tune out, later for stuff about my life!