Waiting

In my last post I had mentioned that our manager had transferred to another hotel and now we have this traveling General Manager.  He's pretty cool but I feel lost because he hasn't really brought the staff together and let them know what's going on.  Since we have hit our dead period, business has been kind of slow but yesterday at work was sort of busy.  There hasn't been any weird ones lately but yesterday there was a guy that came in, he wasn't a guest but he asked me if we sold stamps which I thought was kind of weird. Why would a hotel sell stamps?? I never knew hotel sold stamps much less an economy hotel like us. Now we're just waiting on our new general manager which is about time because our hotel has been kind of going down.  I don't know about sales but our house keepers have been doing a bad job and some front desk workers haven't been doing their work either.  We finally hired one but she isn't suppose to be coming till the first week of December so we'll just have to wait. 

Dead Period

 This is the time of the year where our business slows down.  I think it goes for all hotels here in Pittsburg although, for some strange reason all the hotels in Pittsburg or the bigger ones like Holiday Inn and Comfort Inn are all sold out today.  There's been a recent trend the past two months where those two hotels and even the Lamplighter Inn have been sold out starting on Tuesdays and leaving on Thursdays.  I think they are either conventions or contruction workers but it just seems odd for contructions workers to come on Tuesday and not on Monday.  Today we aren't full or anything but I have been gettting alot of phone calls.  There's only been a couple of new people checked in including one that looks like Jerry Sandusky.  If you don't who he is, he's a former Defensive Coordinator for the Penn State University football team and he's recently been accused of having inappropriate relations and other things with little boys.  Other than that guest looking like him, there hasn't been anything interesting going on around here.

Weird Day

Today at work was kind of weird.  We recently lost our Manager and his last day was yesterday.  When I say lost I mean he transferred to another hotel not that he died.  I didn't get a chance to say good bye which I don't know how to feel about that.  He really did a good job but sometimes he treated me like a little kid or somone who had just started working there.  But I guess I can't complain, besides that he let me do whatever I wanted as long as the job was getting done.  Today we had the interim GM and he didn't really say anything to me so I don't know if he's going to be a strict manager or not but I guess we'll have to see and wait.  There were only 4 guests that checked into the hotel today so there isn't really much to talk about in that aspect.