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  • Front Desk Rant Notes. (:D) (long >>)

    So since I started working, I put my frustrations about guests and even coworkers/managers into notes, since everytime I say the smallest thing on FB (like, "tough day at work") someone has to tattle to my father and he yells at me like i'm in preschool.

    So. Here we go.


    LIEK OMG U HAZ NO CHANGE!1!!1?!!eleventyquestionmark

    Okay, "madam". Everyday, the front desk is BOUND to get low in quarters. Why? We offer guest laundry services, and plenty of unprepared people, quite like yourself, see us as a bank as well as a place to pay for your room. On a good day, if my manager does his bank run, I'll still be out of quarters by the end of my shift. Not only do people come to us for them, we also sell foods/detergent/etc. at my desk, and people need change back for THAT as well.
    So screaming at me, acting like I should have REFUSED anyone else BUTTTTT your royal ass for the quarters, and telling me that because of this we won't get a good review....would have made me slap you.

    If you REALLLYYY need to do laundry, please, think ahead. Get change on the road. I would LOVE to have unlimited quarters to give to guests. Really. But come the fuck on, it takes two here. Be prepared just in case someone beats you to it.


    GARBLE THE FAN IS TOO LOUD GARBLE YARBLE

    I can see this complaint. I really can. But really, we let you know constantly that these fans...are part of the hotels. Sure, we can turn them off in your section of the hotel, but its not really recommended. We WILL if its that big of a problem, but its nothing to scream over. I get some of you are light sleepers, but screaming, asking how we're still in business, yadayada doesn't make me want to help you. I am allowed to tell you to walk if you get abusive. Oh and, almost everywhere in town is sold out, that is of reputable stature. Best calm down sonny boy. If you'd like, the nice Korean gentleman down the streets sells earplugs for a cheaaap price. (.50 cents) Oh, I turned off the fan now. You still hear it?
    Odd. Wanna scream still? Out you go.

    Coworkers, do what we're supposed to
    We have certain steps for CLC. DO THOSE STEPS OR WE DON'T GET PAID BY THE COMPANY. OI VEY.
    Also, you, missie. Quit calling in sick every sunday and then quit then come back and beg for your job back...even though you ranted in front of guests and told everyone you're quitting cause the Housekeeping Supervisor called you a liar.
    And yet you told her you didn't want to quit...and she hired you back. Whereas I get great reviews, and my boss tells me I need retraining while cutting my hours because I say "No problem sir" instead of "You're welcome"? and other small things that never got me in trouble? o.O;
    Err.....fustercluck anyone?

    KEYS DON'T WORK. YARGH

    Gents and Ladies, there is a sign there. Stating don't put your room key near credit cards or cellphones. Oh look. ALL THREE IN ONE HAND. I don't know fully how, but the magnets for the keys won't work.
    Throwing them at me won't solve the problem. Screaming at me won't solve the problem. I'm happy to make you duplicates, its really NOT a big deal, so calm the hell down and stop acting like a raging boar.

  • #2
    Quoth Kaycichu View Post
    GARBLE THE FAN IS TOO LOUD GARBLE YARBLE
    I must be an oddball then. I've slept with a fan blowing on/near me since... well, a good number of years . Hell, we have a really, really old HEPA filter that sounds like a jet engine in our room. And we love it. Every time we look to replace it, we cannot find one that matches it in level of white noise it puts out.
    But the paint on me is beginning to dry
    And it's not what I wanted to be
    The weight on me
    Is Hanging on to a weary angel - Sister Hazel

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    • #3
      Unless the fan sounds as though it's going to explode any minute (i.e. screeching, groaning, rattling, etc.) I find the "white noise" actually helps put me to sleep. However, a friend of mine says she can't sleep if there is ANY noise in the vicinity ... which explains why she turns off even the air conditioner in mid-summer.

      I had to laugh about the idiot who put the room key right next to the cellphone and credit card. I was traveling in England years ago and several of us went to Paris. They had magnetized tickets for the subway. I put it near something deadly ... can't remember exactly what ... and then went frantic when suddenly it didn't work anymore. For some reason, being stranded in Paris didn't appeal to me at all.

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      • #4
        Same here on the fan -- partly because I like the "white noise", partly because I like a bit of a breeze ^_^
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        • #5
          Hahaha I so feel for you. Except in my house, if I have a bad day my wife defends the bullshit that upset me. When I worked at Walmart she defended the terribad jackasses they had running that place all the time. She just thinks that I should always be in a good mood, and yells when I'm not... which of course starts a downward spiral.

          The room key thing kills me here too. I particularly like the women whose purses have those magnetic clasps and people say things like, I didn't know it was a magnet! (two metal things tat "magically" stick together, could it be a magnet? naaahhhh.

          Have you had the people who are sure that you've somehow encoded their credit card and all their other personal information on their room keys yet? LOL

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          • #6
            You just made me think of a good idea... charge a little higher for earplugs! It will help the company profit by having noise-sensitive customers purchase earplugs, thus making the customer happy and possible return visits.

            I love the fan on, but the best is when it's hot outside, putting the pillow on the floor, laying right in front of the floor fan, and taking an afternoon nap. Aahhhh....

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            • #7
              I can understand with the fan. However, there's certainly a better way to handle and get a fix on the situation than screaming like a banshee. In my case, I'd be rather happy with the noise, that and if it's a really good fan that practically turns the room into a second Ice Age, even better, seeing as I kind of follow the "Body warm, head freezing" rule.
              Some people just need a high five...

              In the face with the back of a chair....

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              • #8
                Quoth EricKei View Post
                Same here on the fan -- partly because I like the "white noise", partly because I like a bit of a breeze ^_^
                Same here. I find I get too hot at night without the fan on, and that will wake me up and I'll have a hard time going back to sleep.

                Besides, the sound of the fan humming is soothing. It doesn't matter what time of year it is . . . it's on.
                Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                • #9
                  Quoth Skarredmind View Post

                  Have you had the people who are sure that you've somehow encoded their credit card and all their other personal information on their room keys yet? LOL
                  Close, a guy gave me his key and expected me to know his room number and name but wouldn't let me run they key to find out who he was? o.O

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Pixilated View Post
                    However, a friend of mine says she can't sleep if there is ANY noise in the vicinity ... which explains why she turns off even the air conditioner in mid-summer.
                    How, exactly, does she manage that? Does she sleep in a sensory deprivation tank? There's always something making noise, either mechanical or natural.
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                    • #11
                      I'm kind of sensitive to noise too but if it's something I recognize, like the refrigerator making its weird little noises, I'm fine with it. It's when I can't figure out what's making the noise that it keeps me awake. I also like to use a fan for white noise as well as cooling off.

                      I must be strange, because it has never occurred to me to throw something at a clerk or a cashier, anywhere, ever. Where do these people come from??
                      When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Pagan View Post
                        ... There's always something making noise, either mechanical or natural.
                        I was propped just right in bed last night... My pulse was scritching my ear back and forth across the pillow...
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                        • #13
                          I sleep with 4 fans on. Of course I live in a building full of elephants too!
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Kaycichu View Post
                            Close, a guy gave me his key and expected me to know his room number and name but wouldn't let me run they key to find out who he was? o.O
                            Haha, yeah. Had that. Didn't you know, as a front desk clerk, you are simultaneously, house keeping, maintenance, a weather man, a travel agent, a mind reader, and probably a wizard too (I've had people mad at me because I couldn't get the cloud cover that blocked our satellite reception to move).

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Skarredmind View Post
                              Have you had the people who are sure that you've somehow encoded their credit card and all their other personal information on their room keys yet? LOL
                              Yes, I don't know where this misinformation comes from. Maybe that's why we lose keys so fast.
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