Post by lena on Jun 10, 2020 10:57:12 GMT
Hot , humid, and , raining here to day .Moi was able to once gain sunbathe in the raw on the roof Now leaving my unit without anything on with just a towel & my keys . Was on the elevator with some fellow tenants from Taiwan who I could tell didn't know quite what to make of me .............
Was at the hotel for 5 hours of meetings . While I usually hate meetings these 2 days a week things have been good for keeping the team coherent and best of all giving everybody something to do .Mostly job related today but then spent an hour on all the insanity going on back home .
Doing hotel rescue ................. It was like being on the reality ( or with most of them close to reality ) tv series HOTEL IMPOSSIBLE where experts save faltering hotel .The corporation has a special section that saves faltering properties as well as bars /restaurants in them that operates out of coperate out of Los Angeles .Knew about those people and were a whole world away from what I did but in June 2014 on just 72 hours notice there I was with those people in Des Moines Iowa a city /area of around 700,000 people that is 600 miles from Louisville .Very intense like when I'd worked in China but interesting and with the exception of the year under that fat bald prick Henry helped this accidental career of mine in the hotel industry .
How did this happen ? We had a VP visiting who worked with me for most of one nite and thought I was great despite what he said about me talking like country comedian Minnie Pearl . When I came into work on Friday , the reverse .Mr VP was there and he had liked what he saw with me the nite before then with me not at first understanding anything said how the bean counters at corporate had discovered some irregularities at the property in Des Moines which had led to more & more irregularities . Didn't understand how this affected me but things became clear when he told me how the whole management team had been terminated and said they were sending in a new team to keep the place going and wanted to know if I wud be interested in going along ? It was actually more of an order then request with me realizing I had to say yes which I did .After that we all went up to the bar and had aa glass of champagne .But despite being an alcoholic who has trouble putting an down I had only half then excused myself to get back to the floor.The old boy liked that
So there I was all day Saturday either on the phone with the guy I'd be working for off and on or packing .Sunday I flew out to Des Moines. Took a cab to the hotel that was down town where I met the 8 other people on our keep the ship afloat team .My boss was as you wud expect a white male in his 4's with an MBA who specialized in saving the day .We started calling him " Captain Kirk " . His title was Acting General Manager with me being while I was the Acting Guest Services Manager .In reality Captain Kirk was always too busy with larger things * to run the hotel so it was all left to be . Gave myself the title of Actual Acting General manager which even Captain Kirk thought was funny and true ( although at the end he still took credit for the turn around) was in charge of day to day operation.So there I was proud of my job but usually too stressed out to enjoy my sudden high rank ! Did start calling myself Captain Janeway from STAR TREK VOYAGER
For 6 weeks I slaved away having just 2 .5 days off with one of those days having an exhausted moi sleeping in her room . Most days was on the floor at 7:30AM not leaving till 9PM , longer whenever there was a function . Always running around doing something . At first there were concerns for our safety since we had taken over other people 's jobs and in the middle of a big criminal investigation . So corporate hired some off duty cops to hang around , even at nite when we slept there was a cop in the hallway of the area we were all bundled .Captain Kirk was easy to work for even though learned he was a Republican and big israel supporter Politics didn't matter since we were struggling to keep the place going and we were both too tired to talk about anything else but work .
Was always busy doing lots of running around . Did my best to gte along with everyone else on our team ( very hard with Acting Execurtive Chef Hakim who was a huge gay male Diva who looked like a pudgy version of the late star PRINCE ) and the local crew some of whom didn't like us .Thank the gods corporate brought in a CPA to keep an eye on the money freeing me of that part of the job and also hired 2 locals away from other hotels to do the marketing which saved me there too . After a few weeks I lost track of what day it was since every day was the same with me in a suit & heels on the floor .Met some interesting people including the mayor, a US congressman , the President of the big state University, and the oldest living Iowa veteran of World War Two
As far as the local staff went plenty of angst in the air but only had real trouble with Toria a front desk supervisor who had somehow kept her job despite having had a fling with fired accountant Bill who had been in on the plundering .She had been at the hotel for 14 years and didn't to anyone . One day things blew up when first she was ignoring what I was telling her then blew up at me saying how she had worked at the hotel for 14 years and I was just there temporarily and wud be gone soon so BFD to what I was saying .She clocked out an hour later . Left a message on hr machine later that nite saying she was fired .14 years down the drain !
Went on a tour of Des Moines which was interesting . The town has a great restaurant district , some beautiful old homes , and the site of where Ronald Reagan lived when he worked in radio there in the 30's . His boarding house is now the site of a stadium which still really impressed a late middle aged couple , they were moved to tears seeing a plaque noting Reagan's time in Des Moines . To them Ronnie was a god They were really surprised , shocked , horrified when another person in their age range said how Reagan was a dickhead I laffed at that which the happy surprise surprise Reagan worshippers didn't like
Sexual adventures .Had looked forward to some fun , when the cats away the cat will play But nothing ! Still some amusing stories . There was a 30'ish cop working security who I was flirting with .and planed to bestow my charms upon . I knew he was married with kids but didn't see that as any problem for me especially after he even told me how his wife had left him & taken the kids moving to Minnesota . HOWEVER another cop fooling around with a member off our team opened up how he expected soemthhing from me saying I was a redneck who had probably fucked all my brothers & uncles , told me some big story about his life leaving him to get me to feel sorry for him/be more amenable to , and mocked the way I talk . Didn't t like that ! After hearing all that made sure he never worked at the hotel again .There was also a nite at a girl bar with me meeting a white girl in her late 2's who was a real artsy type in men's plaid boxer shirts , black fishnets , red sneakers, Things were going well until her gf a plus sized black woman in brite lime green sweats and a buzz cut came in .Someone must have called the gf her girl was close to cheating .The two were arguing then King Kong just grabbed her partner and puled her away . I was coming out of the bathroom and to avoid an ugly incident if not getting beaten up faded into the crowd .Back at my room laffed about my near escape from what wud have been a painful experience . /
Bartenders Rule ! The longer I worked at the hotel in Louisville came to understand who the place operated and started thinking I knew more then many of the rotating manager's of the day . At time I did help some and thought how I could both bartend and run the hotel at the same time . That did come true in Des Moines when the bartender didn't show up and acting Food & Beverage manager Pat was back home in Rockford IL .What to do ? Went up to my room and got into my sneakers then taking off my coat /grabbing an apron ran the hotel & bar for the rest of the nite . I go from making a Singapore Sling to TTT the engineer about no ac on one floor ,then checking ID's to make sure the customer is old enough to to having one of the bellmen get the limo to go pick up an important guest at the airport Had fun, made $51.29 in tips too that I kept and was propositioned by a salesman from Chicago ! I fired the missing bartender the next day , he'd been home .
After 6 weeks we had a new and hopefully honest management team . We all went out to a nice restaurant and celebrated , telling stories about our experience .I got nice letter from the corporation commending me , a $ ,500 bonus , extra week of vacation . All nice at first but didn't seem to mean much a year later then I was dealing with the curse of Henry my new boss back in Louisville . Thought to myself how you can't win since ye pat you on the back one minute then shortly thereafter put a knife in the same back .Grrrrr !Turned out I was being too cynical . The VP who had sent me to Des Moines and another who I worked for out three helped me gt my current job . Captain Kirk himself turned up in Louisville trying to salvage our hotel after Henry had ravaged it .He even suggested I be brought in as General Manager which was wonderful to hear although am happier out here.
Now a white Tee & boys jockey shorts .Earlier it was my b'day suit on the roof, and when at work a darker beige safaai dress with plenty of pockets for bullets to shoot lions , elephants etc with nude footlets , brown flats with a pointed toe .
Was at the hotel for 5 hours of meetings . While I usually hate meetings these 2 days a week things have been good for keeping the team coherent and best of all giving everybody something to do .Mostly job related today but then spent an hour on all the insanity going on back home .
Doing hotel rescue ................. It was like being on the reality ( or with most of them close to reality ) tv series HOTEL IMPOSSIBLE where experts save faltering hotel .The corporation has a special section that saves faltering properties as well as bars /restaurants in them that operates out of coperate out of Los Angeles .Knew about those people and were a whole world away from what I did but in June 2014 on just 72 hours notice there I was with those people in Des Moines Iowa a city /area of around 700,000 people that is 600 miles from Louisville .Very intense like when I'd worked in China but interesting and with the exception of the year under that fat bald prick Henry helped this accidental career of mine in the hotel industry .
How did this happen ? We had a VP visiting who worked with me for most of one nite and thought I was great despite what he said about me talking like country comedian Minnie Pearl . When I came into work on Friday , the reverse .Mr VP was there and he had liked what he saw with me the nite before then with me not at first understanding anything said how the bean counters at corporate had discovered some irregularities at the property in Des Moines which had led to more & more irregularities . Didn't understand how this affected me but things became clear when he told me how the whole management team had been terminated and said they were sending in a new team to keep the place going and wanted to know if I wud be interested in going along ? It was actually more of an order then request with me realizing I had to say yes which I did .After that we all went up to the bar and had aa glass of champagne .But despite being an alcoholic who has trouble putting an down I had only half then excused myself to get back to the floor.The old boy liked that
So there I was all day Saturday either on the phone with the guy I'd be working for off and on or packing .Sunday I flew out to Des Moines. Took a cab to the hotel that was down town where I met the 8 other people on our keep the ship afloat team .My boss was as you wud expect a white male in his 4's with an MBA who specialized in saving the day .We started calling him " Captain Kirk " . His title was Acting General Manager with me being while I was the Acting Guest Services Manager .In reality Captain Kirk was always too busy with larger things * to run the hotel so it was all left to be . Gave myself the title of Actual Acting General manager which even Captain Kirk thought was funny and true ( although at the end he still took credit for the turn around) was in charge of day to day operation.So there I was proud of my job but usually too stressed out to enjoy my sudden high rank ! Did start calling myself Captain Janeway from STAR TREK VOYAGER
For 6 weeks I slaved away having just 2 .5 days off with one of those days having an exhausted moi sleeping in her room . Most days was on the floor at 7:30AM not leaving till 9PM , longer whenever there was a function . Always running around doing something . At first there were concerns for our safety since we had taken over other people 's jobs and in the middle of a big criminal investigation . So corporate hired some off duty cops to hang around , even at nite when we slept there was a cop in the hallway of the area we were all bundled .Captain Kirk was easy to work for even though learned he was a Republican and big israel supporter Politics didn't matter since we were struggling to keep the place going and we were both too tired to talk about anything else but work .
Was always busy doing lots of running around . Did my best to gte along with everyone else on our team ( very hard with Acting Execurtive Chef Hakim who was a huge gay male Diva who looked like a pudgy version of the late star PRINCE ) and the local crew some of whom didn't like us .Thank the gods corporate brought in a CPA to keep an eye on the money freeing me of that part of the job and also hired 2 locals away from other hotels to do the marketing which saved me there too . After a few weeks I lost track of what day it was since every day was the same with me in a suit & heels on the floor .Met some interesting people including the mayor, a US congressman , the President of the big state University, and the oldest living Iowa veteran of World War Two
As far as the local staff went plenty of angst in the air but only had real trouble with Toria a front desk supervisor who had somehow kept her job despite having had a fling with fired accountant Bill who had been in on the plundering .She had been at the hotel for 14 years and didn't to anyone . One day things blew up when first she was ignoring what I was telling her then blew up at me saying how she had worked at the hotel for 14 years and I was just there temporarily and wud be gone soon so BFD to what I was saying .She clocked out an hour later . Left a message on hr machine later that nite saying she was fired .14 years down the drain !
Went on a tour of Des Moines which was interesting . The town has a great restaurant district , some beautiful old homes , and the site of where Ronald Reagan lived when he worked in radio there in the 30's . His boarding house is now the site of a stadium which still really impressed a late middle aged couple , they were moved to tears seeing a plaque noting Reagan's time in Des Moines . To them Ronnie was a god They were really surprised , shocked , horrified when another person in their age range said how Reagan was a dickhead I laffed at that which the happy surprise surprise Reagan worshippers didn't like
Sexual adventures .Had looked forward to some fun , when the cats away the cat will play But nothing ! Still some amusing stories . There was a 30'ish cop working security who I was flirting with .and planed to bestow my charms upon . I knew he was married with kids but didn't see that as any problem for me especially after he even told me how his wife had left him & taken the kids moving to Minnesota . HOWEVER another cop fooling around with a member off our team opened up how he expected soemthhing from me saying I was a redneck who had probably fucked all my brothers & uncles , told me some big story about his life leaving him to get me to feel sorry for him/be more amenable to , and mocked the way I talk . Didn't t like that ! After hearing all that made sure he never worked at the hotel again .There was also a nite at a girl bar with me meeting a white girl in her late 2's who was a real artsy type in men's plaid boxer shirts , black fishnets , red sneakers, Things were going well until her gf a plus sized black woman in brite lime green sweats and a buzz cut came in .Someone must have called the gf her girl was close to cheating .The two were arguing then King Kong just grabbed her partner and puled her away . I was coming out of the bathroom and to avoid an ugly incident if not getting beaten up faded into the crowd .Back at my room laffed about my near escape from what wud have been a painful experience . /
Bartenders Rule ! The longer I worked at the hotel in Louisville came to understand who the place operated and started thinking I knew more then many of the rotating manager's of the day . At time I did help some and thought how I could both bartend and run the hotel at the same time . That did come true in Des Moines when the bartender didn't show up and acting Food & Beverage manager Pat was back home in Rockford IL .What to do ? Went up to my room and got into my sneakers then taking off my coat /grabbing an apron ran the hotel & bar for the rest of the nite . I go from making a Singapore Sling to TTT the engineer about no ac on one floor ,then checking ID's to make sure the customer is old enough to to having one of the bellmen get the limo to go pick up an important guest at the airport Had fun, made $51.29 in tips too that I kept and was propositioned by a salesman from Chicago ! I fired the missing bartender the next day , he'd been home .
After 6 weeks we had a new and hopefully honest management team . We all went out to a nice restaurant and celebrated , telling stories about our experience .I got nice letter from the corporation commending me , a $ ,500 bonus , extra week of vacation . All nice at first but didn't seem to mean much a year later then I was dealing with the curse of Henry my new boss back in Louisville . Thought to myself how you can't win since ye pat you on the back one minute then shortly thereafter put a knife in the same back .Grrrrr !Turned out I was being too cynical . The VP who had sent me to Des Moines and another who I worked for out three helped me gt my current job . Captain Kirk himself turned up in Louisville trying to salvage our hotel after Henry had ravaged it .He even suggested I be brought in as General Manager which was wonderful to hear although am happier out here.
Now a white Tee & boys jockey shorts .Earlier it was my b'day suit on the roof, and when at work a darker beige safaai dress with plenty of pockets for bullets to shoot lions , elephants etc with nude footlets , brown flats with a pointed toe .