Wow, I’m off four days and a few interesting things happen at the hotel. Nothing that affects me. The hotel’s restaurant got robbed. I hear that they think it was a “inside job”.

The big news of course was that the Front Desk Manager either quit or got fired. Now I have never mentioned the FDM here on the page. Not the up to now current one. I didn’t want any wrong ideas getting into his head. I referred to him as “The Kid”. Which he didn’t much care for. Let me right now clear up any misconceptions about The Kid any of you could have got from hearing me talk about him.

I have/had nothing against him. Sure in the beginning I didn’t like the idea. But, he was a nice guy. I never had any problems with him. In fact I would go as far as to say that the problems the hotel had with him were not his fault. Why? You may ask. Here’s why. The blame should be heaped on the shoulders of whoever hired him. It wasn’t his fault. He got a job that is always a learning experience. I’m sure they were not paying him the greatest amount of money. He’s young. So he is going to pick up things he didn’t maybe know before.

I bet all of us at one time got a job that we may not have been totally qualified for. You learn as you go. That’s part of biting off more than you can chew. I had more than I can handle when I got the gig with Amerihost. And it didn’t work out for me. But I got some experience doing something I hadn’t done before. And it looks good on a resume. I hope he lands on his feet. And I wish him luck.

So who is the title Front Desk Manager going to? Well to my surprise a lady who was Front Desk Manager a few FDM’s back. She’s one of the old guard. She has the experience to run the Front Desk the way it should be ran. So we have a new GM and a new FDM. The new GM doesn’t know me, so I don’t know what to expect from him. She on the other hand has worked with me before. I have change since the last time she worked with me. The biggest change in me is of course this website. She knows that I have it.

But I still don’t know if this site is going to become an issue. I hope not. Because I’m not going to give it up. I don’t foresee me going out of my way to cause trouble. But I will not take any grief over this. I am exercising my rights as an American. I may be getting nervous in my old age. But you never know.

The GuestBook has been pretty quiet as of late. No Ross. No Rindfliesch. No Karstaedt. With out those guys it gets a little boring. But yesterday we have someone who is a cousin sign the GuestBook:

Name: cousin
where: you
Date: 01/11/01
Time: 09:00 AM

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Hey Turk,

What’s up? Do you not know how to call or stop by or drop a line to family? By the way Turk I Thought you were not going to put any pictures of me on your loving site. At least it was one of good taste (I suppose). We need to get together and have some fun again I really need it bad. I need to hear some BILLY JOEL.

Well see ya but wouldn’t want to be ya ! JUST JOKING BABE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DROP ME A LINE FROM TIME TO TIME IT WOULD BE NICE TO HERE FROM YOU SHITHEAD!!!

I have an idea who this is. I’m just not positive. Send me an e-mail cousin.

Well it’s finally here. The first official contribution by a second party. Sure I have people sign the GuestBook before and I posted here on the main page. But, this is different. This is all Iggy. Once again if you don’t know Iggy, you should check Iggy’s greatest hits here. So if you have some kind of problem and you need the kind of advice Iggy deals in, make sure you check out Dear Iggy.

All of the main page archives have been converted over to the new look. That just leaves the Working section and a few odds and ends. Then I can rest, the process of re doing each page is a little boring.

I still have not heard from Guido or Iggy. They most be lost in limbo. But I have more time on my hands than them. So I’ll keep waiting.

For those interested here are some screenshots of my progress in my season of Techmo SuperBowl:

Years ago Me, Rindfleisch, Karstaedt, Izer, and Ross would play a Nintendo game called Techmo SuperBowl. We would set up tournaments and drink beer. It was a lot of fun. In my mind it is one of the best football games ever. I recently found a site which had Nintendo Emulators and Roms.

Below are some shots showing me whooping some ass. Against the computer I had no problem. Against the boy’s I was to predictable.

The Emulator of choice is a program called NESticle. You can get it from me right here. It is a 470kb download. The NESticle website is here. They have a more up to date version for download.

Well I have yet to hear back from Guido. I think I may have surprised him. I may have surprised quite a few people with my last post. I just hope Guido gives me something good to work with.

On another note, I wanted to mention a website I just found out about. If I had to describe it I would have to say It’s the female version of this site. A day in the life of a Crackwhore is the name of the place. Don’t let the name fool you. Anyway just go and check it out.

The man who is the General Manager of the hotel I work at is moving on. He is a man I have taken shots at a number of times in the past. The Letters from a General Manager comes to mind. For the rest you will have to do a search of my site and put in GM or General Manager. Their are lots of references to him. Guido (a former Manager of the hotel) expects me to maybe take one last shot at the GM. Let me give it a shot.

In the GM’s letter that accompanied our paychecks he let the employee’s know about his departure. In it he says:

It is with mixed emotions that I need to inform you I have accepted the position as General Manager at our hotel in Wisconsin. I personally will greatly miss the entire staff who I worked with over the past six years.
Our company looks forward to a great 2001 at the hotel, and each of you are part of that. I will always be a part of this hotel, and will keep in touch with you into the future.

Thank you for making my job here fun! (Most of the time.)

Sincerely,

The GM

Now for the record I respect and admire what this man does. Before when I was at the hotel leading up to the time I got fired I never understood what a GM really does. Back then I would look at what this GM did and think shit anyone can do that. It looked like the guy sat in his office quite a lot.

Well after being fired and sitting on un-employment for six months I went to work for a company called Amerihost Inns. I was a General Manager. It was hard. In fact I really fucking hated it. I also sucked at it big time. I just don’t have the people skills needed for the position. This hotel’s GM does!

Now I know that being a GM isn’t something I want to do. I really don’t even like working as an auditor. But I respect those who can do it and make a good living while doing it. The GM is a good man. I wish that things in the past could have been different. I really will miss the guy.

So to sum up, I apologize for all of the trouble I have caused this man in the past. I didn’t know what he did. I didn’t try to find out what the man did. I made fun of the man and what he does for a living without truly understanding what it was his job entails.

No one put me up to this. No lawsuit was threatened. This is not my attempt at sarcasm. This is how I feel.