Chapter one. Coworkers
So my manager goes on Vacation, and tells me, as she is leaving "Oh, BTW.. you're in charge" Joy. So I get my shit in order, and everything is fine most of the week. I dont work weekends, so when friday rolled around, I doublechecked everything, and went on my merry way. Only to return to find out that one of my dayshift people decided that hunting flies with a flyswatter was more important than lending a hand in laundry, one of my other day people spent the weekend at work looking at porn on the company computer, and one of my housekeepers decided not to show up, call or anything.
Also, somebodies kid shit in the pool, and nobody wanted to clean it up, so they just left the pool locked the whole weekend. Now, why they unlocked the pool, I have no idea. Why some parent would let thier kid shit in the pool, and not offer to clean it up, I also dont understand. But the people we PAY to CLEAN SHIT UP, refused to do thier jobs, and left it to me. I turn on the high pressure pool filter, which is, amazingly enough, self cleaning. All they had to do was flip a goddamn switch. One of the day people also has a limited grasp on the way water flows. He does the dishes from breakfast, then mops the floor, but leaves the water running, in a plugged sink. A plugged 100 gallon sink with 4 basins. Each with somewhat caustic cleaners in them.
Chapter 2. Customers.
A nice Italian gentleman checked in last thursday under the name "Joey Bag'o'donuts" Yes, Italian.. with a nickname.. and wearing tailored Armani. Lovely. him and his boys rent half the hotel, pay cash, and dont want to give thier names, other than Joey Bag'o'donuts. I'm thinking mafia.
Wrong.. car salesmen.
One of them is a real jackass. He showed up drunk, and spent the entire time during checkin, leaning on the doorbell. He gets in his room, and complains that the TV doesnt work. The next morning, he whines about not getting hsi wakeup call. Well, the TV had to be working, for he ordered "Nasty Black Housewives" twice. And he didnt get his wakeup call, because he didnt bother to answer it. He was drunksleeping right through it.
He then yelled at me, complaining about that rude asshole working the night before, who checked him in, and called him all kinds of names, and hit on his wife.
Well, that would have been me, but I was working then, and I dont remember any of it. And his wife was a skank. So I took his complaint, wrote down every detail, and filed it away securely in the shredder. Maybe I should have waited until he left the desk area before doing this, but oh well. He went to work or something, and hsi wife started calling down, wanting towels, blankets, pillows, shampoo, toothbrush, soap, razors... everythign we offer free, and extras. I explain the limits on the complimentary, and inform her that she has to come down and get the shit. She informs me that if I dont do as she says, i will be fired tomorrow, as she is the managers best friend, and talks to her daily. Funny how she didnt know the manager was out of town on vacation.
Now, the jackass got fired by the bossman the next day. He was told to leave the hotel, and take his barslut wife with him (His bossmans words, not mine, tho mine were very similar). They refused to leave. They began making tons of phonecalls, and such. Police were called, and the jackass and his hobag wife got the boot.
And they stole 3 pillows, 4 towels, the comforter off the bed, and the TANK FROM THE GODDAMN TOILET.
Shame I had his credit card number. That toilet tank cost almost 500$ to replace.
the end. for now.
[ 12-02-2003: Message edited by: Zeke the Final Fencer ]
Edit: I just remembered, Joey Bag'O'Donuts is burrito at Moe's also!
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El Imán Grande! thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
I'm pretty sure Joey Bag'o'donuts is a joke name Dom Irera made up.
Actually, its a fairly common nickname with Italian Jews with the last name "Bogdanovicz".
I asked.
Oh i had a stripper OD on coke and the police found 1500 in her thong when they carried her out.
and there was the time a drunk obease woman threw a chair at me becuse she didnt get comped her LD calls.
has a Indian hotel owner (patel) 
sabatoge our pools filtration system a few times.
and then there was the time we had PAL staying and the litle darlings set of the alarm system and the master key was missing so i couldnt open the damn door to shut it off.. then one of them fired a pistol of some type.
but never all in one night. err weekend
It appears that the guy was staying at the hotel for a while, and using it as a legal place of residence. During that time, he got into some kind of trouble with the law, and was placed under house arrest.
Which landed him stuck at the hotel against his will. And, aside from the con, there really wasn't much to do there. I guess that's why he was sledding down the main stairs in a laundry basket.
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Nobody really understood why Somthor wrote:
used to be a night Manager at a hotel for a few years....nothing like that ever happened.Oh i had a stripper OD on coke and the police found 1500 in her thong when they carried her out.
and there was the time a drunk obease woman threw a chair at me becuse she didnt get comped her LD calls.
has a Indian hotel owner (patel)
sabatoge our pools filtration system a few times.
and then there was the time we had PAL staying and the litle darlings set of the alarm system and the master key was missing so i couldnt open the damn door to shut it off.. then one of them fired a pistol of some type.
but never all in one night. err weekend
"night manager"
This is a title givin to somebody who thinks they are more than a desk clerk. Usually as a way of increasing thier responsibility, without increasing pay. It also describes anybody who is working the desk after the manager goes home.
I prefer "Dark Overlord of the Hotel"
It confers nothing special, but it sounds more evil, and dorky. And having worked at several hotels, I have many, many stories to tell. If you dont have similar stories, you didnt work there for years, or you worked in a tame place.
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Tal At Work had this to say about the Spice Girls:
If you dont have similar stories, you didnt work there for years, or you worked in a tame place.
No kidding. I work mornings-days at McDonald's and I have better stories than that.
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Jake the Reaper was listening to Cher while typing:
its been a while since we got a decent snoota story..
How many accounts do you have?
Thinking about your posts
(and billing you for it) since 2001
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Gydfather had this to say about dark elf butts:
How many accounts do you have?
One at work, because of the shity AOL dialup.
This one, which I rediscovered, and is my second oldest.
Another, which is two weeks older, that I cant recover the password from.
One that is BAND!OMG!!11oneone
One that is A lot newer..
One slightly newer than that.
And one that is my wife's so if she ever logs herself in, I can switch to post under my name, because I never notice who's name its on, until I write a metric asston, and dont wanna rewrite it.
So.. all together.. 7
but only because we dont have a "delete account" button.
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Tal At Work's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
"night manager"This is a title givin to somebody who thinks they are more than a desk clerk. Usually as a way of increasing thier responsibility, without increasing pay. It also describes anybody who is working the desk after the manager goes home.
I prefer "Dark Overlord of the Hotel"
If you dont have similar stories, you didnt work there for years, or you worked in a tame place.
So true.. Have you seen the movie "Four Rooms"?
duities were overseeing the desk clerk, doing the nightly audit, preparing the morning deposits, Handling any and all complaints, overseeing the security guard, overseeing the attached resturant and its personel, payroll preperation and scheduling hours for the hotel staff.
at night I had at least 3 people and by early morning i had as many as 30.
night manager 3rd key 2nd assistant whatever you wnat to call it......
I did this for two years. until my school schedule changed and I had to give notice. [ 12-02-2003: Message edited by: Somthor ]
