I am going to start off by telling you about the weight loss challenge. My friend Amber and I are busting our butts at the gym. We had gone almost every day last week working out anywhere from an hour to 2 hours. I didn't realise it was so fun to work out with a buddy. We did our measurements as well. I have done very well for our first week, now to just keep it going. Now with my work schedule it has been tough for the past few days.
Speaking of work. So I am not at MVC/Le Tache anymore (after December 11 I will do a massive bitch blog about them). I have been wanting to get back into the hospitality industry for a couple of years now. Looking for a new job had been so horrible! The online applications SUCK!!!! All I needed was a place that I could go in and apply in person because I am awesome!! Well that happened. I did it, and I got the job, on the spot! Where did I get a job you ask, well thats the sucky part. I got a job in the restaurant/banquet department of a Holiday Inn up the street from the house. Here's how it was explained to me, first start out doing breakfast serving in the full service restaurant, then add on working in banquets, then working server during the dinner shift, then to bartender. However, there is a huge catch. Noone can know of my experience. Which really sucks because I am a sayer not a doer! I get people to do work, I don't like to do it myself. For instance today, today they had to set up a conference in the restaurant area. OMG!!!!! it took them over 30 minutes to figure out how to set up the tables (for 12 people!!). It was as if they had never held a meeting at the hotel before, and its 4 years old. Finally I was just like, HOLD UP, look put the tables like this, place the other tables over there, cover them like this, and BAM. So then the Restaurant Manager (who get his, his last name is Asshat, HTF can I take anyone serious with a name like that) anyways, he gets there and asks why the meeting is set up like that. First I wanted to say, well you told me yourself that you don't have anyone reliable in the banquets department yet you are showing up an hour before it starts AND you still have to make their lunch???? Whatever, I told him why I thought it was the best way, not to mention it was listed on the banquet order to be set up like that. He looks at me and says, yeah you're right. DUH OF COURSE I'M RIGHT!!!! I wanted to just say, dude, I have worked in every department in the hotel yet I have never worked in one this small. I could do circles around you in my sleep! He talks to the staff like they are all stupid, which they totally are not, they are all Latina and smart as shit!! And really care about their jobs and making the customers happy.
Oh, let me backup to serving for breakfast. For the time being the guests get either a free buffet breakfast coupon ($8.99 value) or a coupon for up to $20 off anything on the breakfast menu. Well NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE orders off the menu. People will pay for only 1 guest in the room yet 4 will come to eat. The lady training me (whose birthday also happens to be the same as my daughters-TODAY) never offers it. I told her today, look, I know its going to piss off the ladies in the kitchen but I want to start offering the guests the menu. As of January 1 we will no longer be serving the free buffet anyways, why not start getting into the habit now. Right now we are making between $6-$20 a day in tips. That is not enough to live on! The breakfast prices are $8.99-$12.99 plus drinks and extras, that's at least $3 per person. Right now we are averaging $.50 a person. I hope she doesn't mind but I am trying it tomorrow. For example, we have had this group in house since Friday. And have only been tipped about $.50-$1.00 for their lunch (which was only $9.95) Most didn't tip at breakfast.
~ be tee dubbs people, if you go to a hotel and you get breakfast *even if its free, and you are eating off nice plates, real silverware, and someone gets you your beverage and cleans up after you TIP THEM YOU JERKS!!!!!
Anyways..... Well yesterday the RM sent my "trainer" home and had me stay to take care of the only 2 people who ordered food from the restaurant (I'll get to the shit in a minute). well, these 2 ladies lunch was $15.00/together. And they tipped me $6.00. OK, back to there only being 2 people eating lunch. FUCK THAT!!! The lady in sales who booked that shit needs to be slapped (especially since she is the owners wife, she should know better!!!) Our restaurant isn't open for lunch, just catering. Who the hell books a meeting for 35 people yet permits only 2 people to order? Seriously, we had to have a server, a cook, and a dishwasher on staff for a $15 tab, hell to the no!!!!! At least 50% or a minimum of 12 people need to order. We have alot of banquets and meetings this week. Hopefully I'll get to show my mad skills again!
I am also going to talk to the GM about working some dinner shifts. I am sure they make way more money, plus they get an automatic 20% gratuity for room service. Not to mention, I HATE working at 5:30am. Anyways, I hope that I can get somewhere with this job. Either way, it is my first steps to running a bed & breakfast, which I will do!
Damn, I really wanted this to be a more fun blog but I got on a rant. Tomorrow, or tonight if I can't sleep I will post about the dating thing.
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