Random Ramblings Are Random

Since my last post I managed to take an entire week off of work, but before my last day one of the employees approached me about another employee who has been sexually harassing her. Naturally, I took it up the line to my boss. Only to have my boss say that the employee's direct supervisor needed to look into the situation. There was proof of the employee's allegations against the other employee, and one would have expected that my boss would have taken the steps to remove the offender. Which is what would have happened at pretty much any other job, right? Obviously, that is not the case here, or I wouldn't have seriously stepped up my job search, spending a good chunk of my vacation sending resumes all over the place. Well, those chunks of time when I wasn't able to move out of my bed due to crippling depression. Considering I'd already told my boss that she needed to make a decision between me and the offender before any allegations were even made, well. I'm b

I do not want to go in for my shift tomorrow. I do not want to deal with the bullshit that I know is waiting for me there. I do not want to talk to my boss. I do not want to listen to my boss' repeated lies. I need a break from work that is longer than two days. I need a new job. I need to just toss all the bullshit at work in the trash and walk away. I need a boss who will listen and actually take action when things are reported to her. I need my vacation to start right fucking now. I need to report my boss' actions to the labour board. I am at my breaking point with work. I am self-medicating with alcohol again. I am wanting to just walk away from everything. I have been crying due to the stress I've been under because of work. I have hit that proverbial wall. I have no desire to do anything at all any more. I have had enough. I can't do this any more.

I heard back from the place I'd interviewed at this past Monday. I didn't make it through to the next round of interviews. Bleh. In other news I've managed to properly explain to my boss why I can't do the café job f/t from a physical health point of view. By the end of each café shift I am in so much pain that by the time I get home I can barely move. Even with better shoes that are meant for being on my feet for several hours, it just means that I go a little bit longer before I absolutely MUST sit down for an extended length of time. Yes, if I kept on going with it my body would probably adjust, but at the same time it might not. Why take that chance? So, my boss is now fully aware of why I really am not willing to take over the café. Besides, as she pointed out today when she called to touch base with me, my co-AGM is not really performing at his best either and has been dropping the ball on a lot of things, things that our boss has been relying on him to accomplish

I have officially started looking for a new job. Why? Because I feel that the longer I stay where I'm at now the more burnt out and angry I will become. Knowing that my boss doesn't feel the need to follow labour laws is just part of it. Knowing that I could get the same pay and hours with less responsibility elsewhere also ties into it. I really dislike working for unethical employers, and the worst part about what is going on is that I don't think the owner actually knows what is going on. Or the illegal actions the operations manager is taking in terms of screwing us all out of overtime pay, or just our pay in general. I sent out four applications today, each for front desk positions, at other local hotels. One I'm sure I don't have a hope in hell of getting due to having worked for their out-sourced housekeeping team and quitting without notice, but I figured that it wouldn't hurt to at least try, right? If I do manage to get at least an interview there I ha

So, I've made the decision to have a roomie again. Not because of money concerns but more because a co-worker is in a bit of a situation that makes it hard for her to quit her job if she finds something else. It has to do with the fact that she rents one of our work's longterm stay apartments and knows that if she goes onto a different employer that she will either be evicted or have her rent go up sky high. She pays $1000/mo right now for a tiny basement studio apartment. Sure everything is included but it's not a great situation to be in. Especially considering that another coworker had a 1bdrm apartment for $800! Not to mention that she's not being paid properly for her job title, on top of everything else. Basically, we've both made a decision that if we can find better employment we're gone from the hotel. She's tired of only getting paid $14/hr when she's supposed to be getting paid more as she is the housekeeping supervisor, and I'm just plain

Vacation is booked...starting about a week after missus gets back. Yeah, don't @ me. It boiled down to me wanting make sure we actually had somebody available to work hotel shifts that I usually work. It does mean, however, that somebody is going to have figure out how to give the cafe person their two days off that week because I won't be there to do it, and my co-assistant GM will be needed at the front desk. Which also brings up an interesting tidbit - our boss has told him that she wants him primarily at the hotel front desk, yet she's told me that I can get him to switch up with me so I'm not working all the available cafe shifts each week. She really needs to stop telling us all different things, I swear, because she's not doing herself any favours. I am seeing up close and personal why this particular manager person has caused such horribly high turn-over when she's in charge - she freaks out when things don't go her way, changes her mind without tell

Well, I'm not at all impressed. Maybe I'm weird but if I were working two jobs I'd take the p/t job as seriously as the f/t one. Or at least definitely not state that the p/t job isn't something that takes priority to a member of the management team, friends or not. Despite the fact that the second job very much seems to rely on them...yet she doesn't rely on it? Despite her wanting to get more hours at the p/t job to help make up for the overspending she's done. Despite wanting more hours so she can bank more funds towards her almost two weeks off at the end of September. And her getting upset when I suggest to anyone at work that she not be called to cover shifts. And she wonders WHY the big boss tells me I can book nights at the hotel/B&B free of charge? It has a LOT to do with the fact that I work more hours than pretty much anybody else there, between my scheduled shifts and all the extra work I do outside of those shifts. Let's see...I'm on-cal