Well, last night's shift definitely
had some... interesting moments, but overall it wasn't hard. I was working with
Sofi and Rebecca, with Rob as our supervisor on duty. We had about 150
check-ins expected when we arrived, and were at about 90 percent capacity. For
the first time in a long time, we weren't sold out at the end of the night,
which was fine with me. The night ran very smoothly, with housekeeping getting
most of the rooms ready on time and a lot of the guests actually being really
pleasant and nice to work with. It wasn't until later in the night that we got
some drama. It started with seeing several NPS officers come into the main
lobby and quickly go up the grand staircase. Soon, a few more followed them.
Rob went to check it out and came back to tell us that a guest had somehow
seriously hit her head while eating in the Pioneer Grill. I'm not exactly sure
how that ended, but the lobby calmed back down after a while. The next fun bit
of drama was a bat flying right through the front doors of the lodge and into
the lobby. Thankfully there weren't very many people in there by that time, but
those that were definitely seemed a bit freaked out by it, including my
coworkers. Eventually a staff member from maintenance was able to catch it with
a net and rerelease it outside (away from the lodge). Overall it turned out to
be an exciting but not difficult night.
I returned to work this morning at
seven, along with Cristina and Rebecca, with Emily as our supervisor. Today is
Jen's birthday, so she thankfully has the day off to have fun. Last night some
people from the desk, and some other departments, went camping together to
celebrate her birthday. I would've gone, but what with working until eleven
last night and having to come back in at seven this morning, I wouldn't have
been able to really spend much time there. Emily had gone, and she said that
it'd been a really fun night.
This morning, not long after we
arrived at the desk, Heidi, the hotel operator for this shift, came in with a
scraped up knee and hand. She said that she'd fallen while walking to the
lodge. Elena, who was the supervisor here at the time, cleaned and bandaged up
the scrapes, and said that she could go home if she needed to. I offered to
take over the operator's job for the shift if she wanted to leave; I've taken
over it for meal breaks plenty of times, and it's a super easy job. Just being
able to sit down, and not being right in front of the guests makes it a lot
easier. Heidi ended up sticking around until I got back from
the first lunch break and took over for the rest of the shift.
After work, Cristina and I came home
and relaxed in our room until dinnertime. Since I worked until a little after
eleven last night, I didn't get quite as much sleep as I would've liked, so
just going home and resting sounded really good when we got off today.
It feels weird having the next two
days off since I've only worked two days since my last weekend, but I'm not
complaining. I've got an activity planned for tomorrow that I'm pretty excited
about; it should last most of the day, and be a lot of fun. It started raining
here shortly after I got back from dinner, and it might rain tomorrow too, so I’m
not sure yet if I’ll bring my camera on it or not. We’ll see. Either way, it
should be a really fun day off.
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