Up north, ’bout five hours you can command $11.00 to start and a raise at 3 months. The way I see it the night audit holds the place together, completes all the work the day staff does not. And if your hotel is like mine, does it all alone while the day staff has a full line of breakfast attendants, house cleaners, maintenance people, two desk clerks, sales staff and managers.
Then the night audit comes in and fixes up the paperwork, gets out the bills, answers telephones, takes reservations, tracks down pillows, delivers towels, sets wake-up calls, keeps rowdy guests in line, makes coffee, deals with every guest demand for service, gets airline crews off, make beds, walk guests, search (and find) rooms for the over-sold guarantees when everything is sold-out for 50 miles, and I could go on and on, only to be relieved 5 to 15 minutes late(everyday)by daytime front desk staff worried that you might have neglected to pull and or file guest folios from the bucket that they left from the day before as they were to busy playing w/ myspace to do their job.
Night audit does it all and saves the managers/gm tons of trouble w/ corporate and does it with little to no contact with anyone else in the operation. (And yet must know intuitively everything that’s going on in the hotel). Seems like it ought to be a $20/hour job to me.
Now you could not sell me a managers job because i like walking away at 7:10 to 7:25 without a worry in the world. But it seems the night sudit commands a lot more respect that they get!
Good luck with your job search! Should be easy with the experience in multi-taksing that an auditor is used to!
» Posted By UpAllNight On August 4, 2006 @ 4:55 am
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