It's been one of those days where you get the feeling that your workplace is going to end up tanking.
Why?
Considering that we're only open 3 days a week at the spa right now, and the hotel does not need full staffing either.
And that the person doing payroll submission last pay period and next seems to have her panties in a knot over the fact that I'm getting more hours than she is. Sorry Ms. Spa Manager but I've got more skills under my belt than you do and can do pretty much everything other that massages or esthetician services, while you can barely do your own job. Hell, the look on her face last week when I told her that I didn't get a minimum of 30 hours a week that I was going to go sit on EI spoke volumes. As did her flat out admitting that she doesn't know even half of what I do, and is not as comfortable with handling emails, chats, and FB as I am. Hell, she can't even log into her computer in her office properly to get at anything - I've offered to help her, but she won't even let me look at the thing right now. Something is clearly up there. Not to mention that she's only allowed to work 20hrs a week while we're half shut down.
My direct manager is on full lay-off and is not lifting a finger to help the spa and hotel. I don't blame her one bit - they clearly laid off the wrong person in this situation. But I have a feeling that we're dealing with a 'give you enough rope to hang yourself' situation with the spa manager.
The general consensus is that she should never have come back in the first place. Things were going in the right direction finally, after a summer of utter bullshit and childish games, and then she begged to come back. Why? Because her plans to open her own spa didn't pan out. Turns out that all the folks who left when she did were going to work for her at her own spa...and when that didn't happen, they all begged for their jobs back.
If it were up to me, none of them would have been welcomed back. We were not that desperate for staff, and we were in the process of rebuilding with the folks that stayed on during the worst of it, as well as bringing in new staff that had no connection to the spa manager.
Now?
Considering that the spa is only open three days a week, and I do a lion's share of the admin work and can run reports that the spa manager doesn't even know how to find? Yeah, that says a lot.
I would not be one bit surprised to come into work one day to find out that the spa has been fully closed. I'm not worried about my own job, because I have a feeling that I would be put to use somewhere in the business, even if it's rebuilding the spa.
I suppose all I can do right now is just wait and see whatever happens. At least I've got a LOT of skills that will serve me pretty much anywhere else I end up applying. And it's looking more and more like I will be on the hunt for a new job sooner rather than later. And it's not even the stress of not knowing what is going on - it's the stress of knowing that things wouldn't be so convoluted and fucked up if we had the right people in place.
*sigh*
Time for me to go home before I fall asleep in my office.
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