Work has been entirely painful this week. The Powers That Be decided that it would be a good thing to drop an entire new computer system on our heads with four days worth of training (the guy was here for four days. Most of us only got one or two days' worth of training) before the switchover, which happened on the seventh. The only reason this ( Read more... )

Started the day by throwing up twice. That's just not fun. One of the (many) reasons I don't drink is that I frickin' hate throwing up. Also had a pounding headache and a generally sorry disposition. Made quite possibly the most intelligent decision I made all day by deciding to go back to bed ( Read more... )

You know, I was all ready to write up a really hostile rant about New Year's and I can't. In the past it's ben a pain to work New Year's at the hotel - I've had to work five out of the last six New Year's Eves I've been at the hotel, and they've all sucked, from the first one (when I had to call the manager at home and she had to come and break a ( Read more... )

In my years at the hotel I've dealt with whiny guests. I've dealt with ranty guests. I've dealt with stupid guests. I've dealt with drunken guests. I've dealt with horny guests. I've dealt with tired guests. I've dealt with various combinations thereof. But it's pretty rare for me to deal with someone as balls-out off-her-meds insane as a ( Read more... )

Or, How I Learned to Give up Hope and Just Get Through the Season ( Read more... )

Actually had some late-night drama over at the Casa a few days ago, complete with a car chase. Too bad I was at work and missed it, but I got the full report from my neighbors the next day ( Read more... )

I've been dealing with people who've been trapped and stranded by the snow and ice all night long. As you can no doubt imagine, these people are filled with the cheer, joy and zest for living normally equalled only by pissed-off lemmings. Some people are pissed off because they're stuck here and can't get to where they want to be, some are pissed ( Read more... )

Apparently one of the little monkeys I had to chase out of the hallways of the hotel (and I think I know which one; it was almost certainly the "Dude?" guy) decided that he didn't care for the way I insinuated that he was, you know, acting like a drunken retarded howler monkey except without half the manners or a quarter the brainpower, and he ( Read more... )

There's a wedding group in the hotel at the moment.  They all went out and got blasted at a local bar.  They all came back at about midnight and decided that going to their rooms and passing out would, you know, not be an optimal use of their drunken idiot time ( Read more... )

Gee, I was all set to write a big long entry about the election, and then I realized that it was all going to come down to me saying "YESSSSSSS!" for forty-three paragraphs, so I'll spare you reading it and me writing it, and simply state for the record: YESSSSSS!

(for people who express this thought rather better than I just did, John Scalzi has a ( Read more... )