mrsjg
hotel_workers

Please do not stand in front of the steamer trays of bacon, sausage or ham and use your FINGERS to pile food into your mouth.

I cannot tell you how many times I see this at the complimentary hot breakfast buffet. There are 3 steamer trays - as described - and invariably someone will walk up, open the lid - without plate in hand - and just eat, with their fingers, right out of the trays. They don't even make an effort to PRETEND they are going to put a piece or two on their plate.

They walk up, empty handed, remove the lid and stand, picking pork products out and shoveling them in their mouths. And not just a piece. Several pieces.

It makes me fear for the crockpot of oatmeal that is offered. What do they use for that?

Thank godness the eggs are made to order. The horror.

TONGS people - they are there for a reason and are NOT a suggestion.

seklyan
hotel_workers

So, west phoenix was an oozing wound of traffic and mayhem today (and will be so tomorrow as well, joy). My hotel was awash in harried guests checking in, or rushing in to see if we had rooms at the last minute, like Nascar was just announced yesterday, idiots.

We had a new girl working the morning shift, this was only her 3rd day, I understand that there is room for error, and though she has experience with ChoiceAdvantage, some of the errors she made were extremely avoidable, and the kinds of things someone would do who didn't know the full capacity of the functions in ChoiceAdvantage. Anyone who uses it knows that you have to practically tie yourself in a knot to get around some of the error messages, or fulfill one area of pointlessness to complete a task, so I suspect she's not as experienced with it as she claimed she was, or that maybe she just never dealt with certain situations..... If that makes any sense at all. I think other ChoiceAdvantage users can commiserate.

Other than that, everything went surprisingly smoothly, I nearly sold out at a ridiculous rate (I actually felt bad for some of the guests who shelled out the dough on these pocket gouging prices!) and I really think I performed very well under the deluge, I fully expect a few good comment cards. Most of my guests today were genuinely nice people! Surprise surprise. Nascar usually rakes in the jerks.

theljstaff
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Photos of the week

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