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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 0:39:08 GMT -5
just some basic cold type stuff. Had a low fever the other day, like 100.3 or something like that. sucks though because the circuit to my room burnt out or the breaker went bad or something so my room has no power and we can't get an electrician to fix it until everyone's healthy again.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 16, 2021 0:40:16 GMT -5
That really sucks.
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 0:43:13 GMT -5
yeah, but I'm not trying to let it drag me down too much. been playing video games and just generally relaxing a lot before I start school on the 23rd.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 16, 2021 0:44:35 GMT -5
Downtime can be good. You're school starts really late though!
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 0:47:57 GMT -5
Yeah, my college i guess decided to let everyone have a few extra weeks of summer. So how have you been?
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 16, 2021 0:53:51 GMT -5
I've been pretty good. Work was pretty stressful this week (mostly due to the incompetence of some of my coworkers), but it's better tonight. Happy to be able to sleep as long as I want for the next 2 days.
How are you, aside from the Covid and all of it's nasty little friends (feeling sick, isolation, having your room revert back to the 1800's)?
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 1:00:06 GMT -5
sleep is always nice lol. I feel you on the incompetent coworker front. I work in construction management and we had someone dump wet cement on a roof at the end of the day and not tell anyone so we get there the next day and we have a solid block of cement where people were trying to work. I ended up having to break it up with a hammer VERY carefully so as not to damage the roof. this was a few weeks ago.
Pretty good, all in all. I watched some movies that I hadn't seen like A Field of Dreams and a few that I hadn't watched in a while like Cable Guy and What Dreams May Come.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 16, 2021 1:09:01 GMT -5
I heard there was a spike in interest in Field of Dreams after the game the other day.
Yeah, my stuff is more like I come in to having 8 arrivals still to arrive, but only 3 rooms that are clean, and someone giving a guest keys to a room despite not having any payment on them and not actually checking them in in the system (meaning the room got cancelled before I ran the audit), only to have a guy I check in at 4am walk in on said unknown sleeping large military guy and his German Shepherd.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 16, 2021 1:10:41 GMT -5
Who the hell just dumps wet cement on a roof though?
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 1:14:35 GMT -5
tbh that isn't the worst hotel experience I have heard of. We checked in one time and they didn't have any types of rooms that we paid for available so they "upgraded" us to one that had one of those conjoining doors that would normally lead to another hotel room. the thing was, the door only locked from the outside (we couldn't lock it from our room) and the other side of the door was a massive conference/dining room type of space. Creepy as hell and it didn't help that we had no way of preventing anyone from coming through there if they wanted.
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 1:15:03 GMT -5
Who the hell just dumps wet cement on a roof though? Brazilians apparently.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 16, 2021 1:28:40 GMT -5
Oh I have plenty of hotel horror stories, both as a hotel worker and as a traveler. Those were just 2 of this week's issues. Basically problems that I had to clean up even though they were in no way my fault.
We had new management take over this past month, and they are trying to clean up the mess that the previous one left, but in the process they are making things more difficult unnecessarily (things like changing all of the locks in the hotel, and deciding that only upper management should have access to the laundry room and trash/maintenance room, even though I'm here alone all night and people do need things like towels in the middle of the night). I'm probably going to come back up here later this morning after I take Pandora to the vet to try to talk to the new manager and get her to understand that I NEED access to these places. Also they gave us all our "individual" codes so they can track who makes keys to the rooms that are being essentially stolen - only problem is they gave me and this new lady who I have physically caught stealing a room the same code, and I do not want to be associated in any way with her stealing a room and having strange men meet her up here at night.
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 1:37:52 GMT -5
dang. All I can say is I'm glad I don't work in the hotel industry. I don't quite get why they wouldn't let you have access to the maintenance and laundry room when you're the only one there at night. Seems idiotic to have no one on premises with access to something as big as that. I think management in a lot of places are so disconnected from their employees that they don't really get what people have to do on a daily basis.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 16, 2021 1:57:11 GMT -5
There was a lot of theft going on under the previous management. I understand what they're TRYING to do, and that at this point they aren't really sure which of us they can trust, but it's like come on, my reputation precedes me every time new management comes in, you already know how long I've been here and what kind of employee I am. If I were going to steal from this place, it certainly wouldn't be used towels or bed linen.
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 16, 2021 2:08:49 GMT -5
exactly. It'd obviously be tiny bottles of shampoo! All jokes aside, props for putting up with all that. I know I couldn't.
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Aug 16, 2021 21:37:04 GMT -5
pumpkin pie It's still exciting though! I'm guessing you'll have your own rooms now, so you can keep yours clean and ignore her mess? mintedstar/fur🦇 Basic needs are important. Indeed they are. I'm managing so far!
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 17, 2021 7:28:47 GMT -5
exactly. It'd obviously be tiny bottles of shampoo! All jokes aside, props for putting up with all that. I know I couldn't. Sadly, we don't even have those anymore. The showers now have pumps attached to the walls (which housekeeping never "remembers" to fill). The good news is our old head of housekeeping that quit because she didn't get along with the last manager that tanked the place is now back, and she's really good at her job, so hopefully housekeeping will fix itself now and they can move on to fixing another department (like front desk or breakfast). Anyway, overall it's a good job. I just have to ride out the bad times, and it will get better.
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Post by Shadowflight on Aug 19, 2021 10:02:18 GMT -5
hi guys! how are you all? i just started high school!
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#a8d1ff
The Ancient One
Name Colour
pumpkin pie
what if i fall? but my dear, what if you fly?
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Post by pumpkin pie on Aug 19, 2021 11:25:16 GMT -5
congrats! that is exciting! i miss those days lol
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Post by Brindlebriar on Aug 19, 2021 17:31:43 GMT -5
I don't miss highschool, but I do miss college lol
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Post by Fire the Watcher of the vale on Aug 19, 2021 22:17:15 GMT -5
oof my sister got the rona now. on the plus side, my quarantine ends today so I can go do stuff tomorrow.
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Cloudy Sky
*briefly emerges from under my massive pile of schoolwork* I LIVE
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Post by Cloudy Sky on Aug 19, 2021 23:23:45 GMT -5
oof my sister got the rona now. on the plus side, my quarantine ends today so I can go do stuff tomorrow. Hope she's okay!
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 20, 2021 0:18:13 GMT -5
My work has descended into yet another level of Hell
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Post by Brindlebriar on Aug 20, 2021 11:52:04 GMT -5
I have all the symptoms of rona but my test came back negative. So thats fun.
Now my chest is just on fire all the time when I cough
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#a8d1ff
The Ancient One
Name Colour
pumpkin pie
what if i fall? but my dear, what if you fly?
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Post by pumpkin pie on Aug 20, 2021 23:19:11 GMT -5
anyone getting hit by the hurricane?
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 21, 2021 0:37:36 GMT -5
We were supposed to get the remnants of one of them (not the one you're getting) but it looks like the one we were supposed to get went to Mexico?
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 22, 2021 0:28:05 GMT -5
In this edition of crazy people at Turin's work, a woman who spent well over an hour ranting about her "donkey" daughter (her word) that literally pulled over and kicked her out of the car somewhere near the hotel finally calmed down enough to talk without screaming, only to suddenly interject in her conversation, "I had breast cancer you know" and then pull up her shirt, pull up her bra, and flop a boob out to show me the scar.
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Aug 22, 2021 3:44:26 GMT -5
... That ... is ... woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Whatever they're paying you, it isn't enough.
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Post by Leapkit on Aug 22, 2021 11:31:30 GMT -5
I still exist.
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