So vacation ends. Today I would go back to work. Would being the key word:

I’m not even going to get fired. The way these guys run things they will keep me on the schedule. Sale on Mybossisapussy.com shirts!

Interested in another persons take on the goings on at the hotel I work at? Want to an inside look directly on how the place is managed? Then ladies and gentlemen I present to you the first four parts of TT’s account of her less than two weeks working at that hotel:

• Part One covering days One and Two
• Part Two covering days Three and Four
• Part Three covering days Five and Six
• Part Four covering days Seven and Eight

And just to wet your whistle to get you to click those links here is an excerpt from day one describing the Accounting Manager? that trains her:

She deletes phone messages from creditors, she shreds mail, she throws important documents relating to state and federal payroll taxes? in a file she calls stuff I don’t handle?. She is an angry employee? who hides it and has been operating like this for a long time. I help her open the mail and we get a notice that the power is going to be shut off in 2 days. Now this to me is funny. I open more mail, we bounced some checks I see, we are having our phones disconnected, we owe back taxes, shit is getting deeper. Didn’t the City give us $400,000 3 years ago? She takes the big stack of bills that came in the mail and puts them on top of a pile on top of a filing cabinet. What are you going to do with them? I ask. Nothing, she says.

With any luck we I’ll be able to put the rest of this when she gets it to me.

Let’s take a look at the owners of the hotel I work for. Just some links for you folks to wet your whistle on some new info that has come to my attention. Below are the links:

• Dunkin Donut/Baskin Robbins Franchise Operator Will Pay 213 Workers
• Dunkin Donut and Baskin Robbins Stores Accused of OT Violations
• Dunkin’ Donuts, Inc. v. Tejany & Tejany, Inc. scroll down to the part that says STATE FRANCHISE LAWS/VIOLATIONS

And for those really interested in finding out about the owners of the hotel I work for be sure to check out this pdf found at the PACER site:

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And for those who wonder about the usage of this document please read:

What are the acceptable uses of the data obtained from the PACER system?
The PACER system provides electronic access to case information from federal courts across the United States. The information gathered from the PACER system is a matter of public record and may be reproduced without permission. However, the PACER customer assumes all responsibility for consequences that arise from use of the data.

What a great vacation.

Not so long ago I wrote about the new night auditor. This is what I had decided was wrong with this new higher paid auditor:

I literally laughed out loud when it dawned on me what she had done. The new night auditor is fucking stupid. So either she doesn’t now how to balance credit cards or the new night auditor can not read or do basic math.

Which as it turns out this was harsh of me. I overlooked human frailty. What follows is another be a night auditor at home example. These below are the Amex and Mastercards that the new night auditor “balanced” (and again these open in a new window):

Here is the Amex Card Report. And here are the Auditor Mastercard Reports and the Desk Clerk Mastercards Reports (both are needed to balance the Mastercards). With this information it’s very easy to see that what the new night auditor is doing is getting the numbers wrong. 64.00 that should be 64.90 and 109.36 that should be 108.36. It was clear what the problem was:

It’s not that the lady can’t read or do simple math. It’s that she is blind as a bat. Ladies and Gentlemen may I introduce the Bausch & Lomb Magna-Page 2X:

8-1/4″x10-3/4″, Clear Acrylic Sheet provides instant magnification of an entire page. Made of high-quality clear acrylic. Specially designed fresnel lenses are molded (rather than hot stamped) of optical grade acrylic to provide optimum image quality.

So not stupid. Just a case of bad eyesight. Bad eyes equal more pay at the hotel. I’ll start sitting closer to the tv from now on and hope it will get me a raise when I come in with my very own Magna-Page.

I just checked in a black guy. He works for So And So Trucking Company. Because of that the guy gets a 47.00 rate. As I was checking the guy in this old white guy comes in and stands impatiently as I check the black guy in. The old white guy hears the 47.00 dollar rate. He didn’t here the first part were I tell the black guy the standard rate of 94.00 bucks. I check the black guy in and send him on his way.

I start to check in the old white guy. I tell him the rate is 94 plus tax and get cut off in mid spiel.

The old white guy is like “why did the black guy get a rate of 47.00?”

“Well sir that gentleman works for So And So Trucking Company they get a special rate of 47 plus tax.” I tell the old white guy.

“Why can’t I get that rate?” The old white guy asks.

Baffled because I thought I had just explained I try again “When you start working for that company I’ll be more than happy to give you that rate” I say.

The old white guy smiles and says “I own a trucking company.” Now mind you this old white guy looked like he was a member of some rich white only country club. I did not believe for a second that this old cocksucker owned a trucking company. Nor did I care if he really did.

“Well unfortunately that rate is for that trucking company only. You would be more than welcome to call and talk to sales and catering department to negotiate your own special rate.” I said smiling.

“94 fucking dollars!” the old white guy said as he left the counter and out the door muttering like a big baby.

“Yep 94 fucking dollars” I confirmed to the old white guy as he left.

“94 fucking dollars is crazy!” the old guy muttered as he went out the front doors.

“Yep” I said in agreement. life’s a bitch.

The nosy old bastard should have minded his own business and I would have gave him a break. I can’t stand people who try this shit. They get no breaks and I let these assholes walk right out of the hotel. They can take their business elsewhere and they can go fuck themselves.

How about an update on the new night auditor? Because it really is funny in a sad way. As I may have mentioned there is a new night auditor to replace (who can’t be replaced) the one who left. This person has had four days of training. Two days of front desk training and two days of audit training. Four fucking days total.

This is a case of her being able to pick the shit up in four days. Not that it is that complicated. Now supposedly this lady has experience in the hotel field. Apparently she has experience doing the night audit as well. She must have lots of experience to make more than me right? Four days training and the fact she is making more than me say to me that she should be able to pick it up in four days. But I’m beginning to wonder.

Today the new auditor worked the first shift. As a bonus this four day trained person is training another new person. Nothing like the blind leading the blind huh? First shift I think is fairly simple. You check people out. At this hotel that is about what they do. You can’t expect to much from the candidates we get here. They also “balance” credit cards.

This in itself has become a huge joke. The thing is I expect any night auditor that makes more than me to be able to at the least balance credit cards. Below will be visual aids for auditors who know what I’m talking about (and people who can read and do basic math as well). First we have scanned pictures of the new auditors “balanced” credit cards for her first shift. Visa and Amex is all she had at first glance. These open in a new window:

Now when I first looked at her paper work it looked fine. It’s when I started to actually look at the reports that WinPM generates that I started to get confused. And at first I overlooked the obvious. Here is her Amex Report and this is her Visa Report. If you compare the reports to her adding machine tape bunch of folios you can clearly see (if you can read and do basic math) that her shit does not balance.

Now I’m thinking to myself maybe she forgot to remove folios that she may have adjusted off because of a mistake or costumer complaint. So I pushed the amex/visa to the side and started with mastercards and discover. The new auditor also had mastercards and discovers according to the reports I use to balance. Yet she had no paper clipped folios with the adding machine tape to show she balanced them. You have to remember I am assuming that this new auditor at the very least can read and do simple math.

Foolish me. Once I printed up her Mastercard Report and her Discover Report did it start to become clear what had happened. Well not clear but I knew what she did I should say. Her mastercards were in with her visas folios. Her discovers were in with her amex folios.

I literally laughed out loud when it dawned on me what she had done. The new night auditor is fucking stupid. This may seem harsh. Look again at those first two scans. Do you see how the words American Express and Visa are highlighted in yellow? She did that herself with a yellow highlighter. Every folio of hers is highlighted like that. Whether it be amex, visa. mastercard, or discover.

She took the time to highlight the shit. If she can read she should be able to see that her folios did not balance. She’s the one who added the folios up. So either she doesn’t now how to balance credit cards or the new night auditor can not read or do basic math. What do you think it is?

It amazes me even more when I remember that this new auditor is making more money than me. Perhaps if I was an idiot who can not read or do basic math I would get a raise? Maybe I need to start acting like the rest of these retards we call front desk clerks and night auditors. Maybe then I will get a raise. Because at this point I’m so fucking depressed in my current work situation that I maybe willing to act like the rest of these tards if that will get me a raise.

Equal Pay Act:

The Equal Pay Act of 2003 prohibits employers with four or more employees from paying unequal wages to men and women for doing the same or substantially similar work, requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility, under similar working conditions for the same employer in the same county, except if the wage difference is based upon a seniority system, a merit system, a system measuring earnings by quantity or quality of production, or factors other than gender.

So I make 8.75 and two new hires make over 1.25 more than me. Does anyone think that the above law applies to my situation? I think it does. Guess what? The people at the Illinois Department of Labor think so as well:

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So now all I do is download the pdf and print it out at work, fill it out at work, and finally mail it out at work on their dime. So either I get a raise or the new ladies get a pay cut? Either way it only seems fair.