Friday June 20th 2008

	Work Report 12:13 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink So the two ladies come down to the desk. They both have key problems. The one lady gives the correct room number for her keys. The second lady gets some numbers mixed up and tells me the wrong number. This is an important part of this story. So two ladies come down because their keys are not working in their room doors. I ask them if when the key were used if the lock flashed a green light or a red light. Red they say. I reply that this is a good thing. They ask why this is a good thing. I tell them that it is good because it means that neither the lock is broken or they (the guests) did it wrong. That is when the lady who tells me the wrong room number for her keys corrects me that the guest is always right. The old lady scolded me like I was some kid who told a lie. The customers are generally speaking always wrong. I will not spit out this manager bullshit speak about the customers always being right. It is a gigantic load of shit. So I go about my business making the right keys for the lady who did not put her foot in her mouth. For my costumer who says she is always right I make the keys for the room number she gave me. This was the wrong room. The keys will work, but it is not the room this know it all is in. The bit with me giving her the keys to the wrong room was chance. I did not check to see if it was wrong or right. Fate stepped in and provided all with proof that the customer is not always right. The even better part was when they came for the correct keys the always right customer did not come down to get them. I made it a point to ask if the keys were for the lady who said customers were always right. The lady who came for the keys said yes. I smiled and gave her the keys for the old lady who thinks customers are always right. Vacation starts tomorrow. Nine glorious days off.
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Monday May 12th 2008

	The New PC 3:22 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink Just because I had mentioned to Gawain that I was going to geek out and post some case porn. The first shot is my old new pc. Then you got the new pc insides. Which I think I did a good job on with my use of zip ties. The old pc has the same number of fans. Yet some how it is noisier. The new case is slick as hell. It has a front air filter that can be pulled out and cleaned. It also has they handy hard drive bays that you attach two things (mounts?) that allows you to slide the drive in and out. Very hand for when you need to pull shit out and replace it. And I’m happy with everything else about the new computer. All of the items I ordered have (so far) worked as I had expected. I went out and bought Crysis to determine what my pc was able to do. I’m happy to say I can run it on high and I get a good 40-60 FPS most of the time. To round out this one above is my messy computer area. Also here is a new poll: Do you build your own Computer? Yes No View Results  Loading ...
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Wednesday April 30th 2008

	Renewed 12:12 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink Domain renewal is another purchase I’ve been putting off. Like buying the parts for a new pc, ordering five more years of Hotelblues.com is a satisfying purchase. Now the domain expires in September 2013. 2013! That is the future man. Shit like that still blows my mind.
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Friday April 25th 2008

	Happy Hour 5:56 pm-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink At the bar with my buddy the old bellman of the worst hotel ever. We are enjoying happy hour at Suds O’Hananans. Update. We have downed beers one and are halfway into beer two. Beer three sits waiting for us to drink. Update 2. Beer three is drunken. We wait for the waiter guy to get his ass over to our table for beer four. Update 3. We finished beer four and wait for waiter guy to cash us out.
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Thursday March 6th 2008

	Definition 12:22 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Default Permalink I was checking some links that lead to me and found Wikipedia’s entry Night Auditor. Wikipedia has a textbook description of what a Night Auditor is and what they do. Here is the first paragraph: A night auditor is a hotel employee who typically handles both the duties of the front desk agent and some of the duties of the accounting department. This is necessitated by the fact that most fiscal days close at or around midnight, and the normal workday of the employees in the accounting department does not extend to cover this time of day. Very textbook. It lacks the real world flavor that this Everything2.com entry has: “Night Auditor” is the glorified term for a hotel front desk clerk that works the graveyard shift (typically 11 P.M. to 7 A.M). This is a nice job if you don’t like dealing with people, but those few that you do have to deal with tend to be mentally ill and/or intoxicated. An upside to this job is that you’re likely to be hired or keep this job despite your incompetence or criminal record, as no one else is willing to work this shift. The usual tasks involved in this job include checking guests in and out of the hotel, running end-of-day reports for the management, making coffee for the early birds, and playing lots and lots of solitaire. Common symptoms of being a night auditor include the inability to see in the sunlight and considering more than one car sharing the road with you to be “traffic.” This was funny enough for me to write about. I also feel it is a dead on description on what night audit is really like today. The Wikipedia entry may have been more accurate ten years ago or perhaps in a big hotel. I know my job is more like Everything2.com description. Back in the day I did some accounting type duties, but not anymore. Which I think is one of the side effects of some of the software that hotels use. It’s easier for the computer to do the accounting end than it is for the dumb human that is hired to do the night audit.
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Friday February 29th 2008

	Bad Dream 12:20 am-Turk Comments (3) Show » Default Permalink Here is the nightmare I had: It starts out like some hot sex dream. Harpy Number One is naked and ready and willing. She smiles as I take my clothes off. When I’m naked she starts to laugh and says “You have a little dick!” laughing so hard she falls off the bed. Which is when I wake up. What the fuck is my subconscious trying to tell me here?
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Thursday January 31st 2008

	Ten Years Old 5:09 pm-Turk Comments (1) Show » Default Permalink Ten years. One decade. My god why have I been wasting my time with this for so long? Ten years of this and what has it got me? Nothing other than the loser claim of being fired twice because of it. Hurray! I just can’t seem to say much more than that.
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