Holy Moses! I had no idea it has been three weeks already. Seriously. Things have been insane. My goals for the summer and their respective levels of completion: Update the scrapbook (nothing in it except my trip to Russia back in '99) - 0% Read my anthology of world masterpieces - 19% Lear"N dddddddddddddddddddiTO77" ahem. The typing in quotation marks is brought to you by a special guest writer, Tommy, our kitten. He kindly hopped onto my laptop to entertain you all. What a treat. Anyway, AS I was saying . . . Learn to skate - 0% Hmm I made other goals, too, but apparently they are at 0% as well because I don't even remember what they are. I can't even begin to share everything that's been happening the last three weeks. For one thing, I think tonight is the first night in that whole time that I have stayed home. Not that I wasn't invited anywhere tonight . . .I just declined because I've been a little on the ill side and I knew if I went out again tonight, I'd wake up seriously ill tomorrow morning. Still working. It was 110 degrees when I got to work at 10 this morning. Ok let me choose one thing to update on. Maybe if I tackle one aspect of life in each entry, it will be manageable. Start with work. As I mentioned, it's been hot there. I've been working in the office a lot more, which made this week's paycheck my largest yet (35 hours in two weeks). Here comes the real excitement, though: the head of housekeeping, Lisa, has always bragged about how when she does laundry while she's doing housekeeping, she doubles her hours. As she explained it, they can't have her do two jobs at once without doubling her hours. No, I am not making this insanity up. I never said anything about it to anyone because it wasn't my place. If she wanted to double her overall hours because she spent a little time throwing laundry around in between cleaning rooms, fine. However, she told me the other day that David (the manager) is taking advantage of me because I don't know any better when I do housekeeping and run the front desk. So she told me to talk to him about it. I was like, "Umm, do they (being David and the bookkeeper)know you do this?" She got one of those "Gee, I never thought of that, oops" kind of caught looks. "Uh, I think so." She thought about it and then said, "yeah, they should know about it, because . . ." and then gave this really ridiculous explanation. So I was like, "Sure, I'll talk to David about it." And I did. Know what? He didn't know about it. She was bragging about the day she billed them for 12 hours? He freaked. We had a meeting, the three of us. She said that she had a deal with the owner and with the bookkeeper about it and that she knew she had told him that before. He was like, "That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard, but we don't do custom deals here. It's only fair for Holly to do that too, then." This was the only time I spoke during the meeting: "I don't want to double my hours. If I'm here for five hours, I'm here for five hours no matter what kind of work I'm doing. It's not right for me to do that. If you feel right about it, that's fine." I could tell she was kind of taken aback, but she recovered and said, "Well, I won't do it either, then. I'll just come in and do laundry separately instead of doing it during housekeeping." I told her later that I didn't care whether she did it and she was like, "Why didn't you tell me in the first place that it bothered you so much?" me: "Because it doesn't bother me. I talked to David about it like you said, then I've been thinking about how I feel about it for myself and I just decided it wasn't right for me." her: "Oh. Well, I'm glad you told me. You helped me see things from a different point of view. I honestly didn't see anything wrong with it. I want you to tell me when you see me doing something you think is wrong, because that will help me become a better person." And I was honestly impresssed because I didn't think she had that in her. However, later in the day she made a comment that betrayed some less noble feelings. "Well, we would have been done earlier if we hadn't had that hour long meeting we didn't need to have." But things have been ok since then since she's not the confrontational type. She's nice to everyone . . . but then she gripes about everyone to other people. So yeah. I prefer this anyway. I know it's selfish because it's not healthy for her to avoid dealing with her issues, but at least we still have a peaceful work environment. Even if it's fake peace. |