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    Thursday July 13th 2006
    Times Up 3:44 am-
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    I make eight dollars and seventy five cents a hour. I've not received a raise in over five years. That's half a decade. I've been told that is a long time to go without getting a raise. I'm also told quite often that I should have my head examined for still working at the hotel. For this half decade it's not really bothered me all that much. It's not bothered me because I knew that the hotel was not getting it's 8.75 a hour from me. If they are lucky they get about 1.25 a hour from me any given night.

    This all changed late sunday/early monday. You see not only did I not give them a full days wage I also played computer games every night at work. It ended when Node 1 died. Which it's not very surprising when you look at how the hotel handles computers. How any of these computers have lasted as long as they did is nothing but luck. When we got WinPM we received 8 computer systems. We now have 2 or 3 left running. I've often told these stupid fucks what they need to do. They choose not to listen to me. Which is fine. Let their retarded "IT" guy handle this shit.

    So I played games. I played a lot of games. I played EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, and City of Villains at work. Each night I played these games for just about the entire 8 hours. It's what made having this crap job ok. It's why I didn't mind making only 8.75 for the last 5 years. Where else could I get a job were the bosses are so dumb that they let the employees play computer games all night? It's even worse when you realize that the management had no clue I was doing so. Nor could they stop me if they wanted to.

    But now this job just isn't good enough. The lack of raises has finally caught up with me. I can go and find another job and get payed more to do the same (no games) thing. Why settle for this piece of shit job now? It's not like these clueless fucks at work even give a shit. So while I go from playing computer games all night I now will be getting my resume put together and be using work time to look for a new job. It also means I have more time to work on my website. Which is the next best thing to playing games at work.

    It just feels like my time is up. My time has been up for a long time. I've just postponed it. Maybe in august I will do the unexpected. Next month is special because that is when the lady who does the audit on the weekends is supposed to quit. It would be rather satisfying to quit at the same time just to really fuck them over good. No two weeks notice either. Eight dollars and seventy five cents a hour doesn't get them a two weeks notice. At 8.75 they would count themselves lucky if I called them up in the middle of then night to say go fuck yourselves. Nope I'm going to leave nice and quiet. When the times up.

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    Tuesday July 4th 2006
    Independence Day! 11:36 pm-
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    Here is a one sided conversation with Gawain:

    Session Start (Turk:Gawain): Tue Jul 04 23:23:39 2006
    [23:23] Turk: Happy Independence Day!
    [23:24] Turk: do you realize of the five people so far I’ve seen at the hotel, they have looked at me oddly when I said that. And responded isn’t it the 4th of july?
    [23:25] Turk: which makes me feel to smart and sad that americans as a whole are fucking stupid
    [23:25] Turk: one person answered my question of how old the country is by saying 235 years old
    [23:26] Turk: so not only are they ignorant of their own history, they are also bad at subtraction.

    Be proud America in your people.

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    Wednesday June 28th 2006
    Cheap Fucks 5:29 am-
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    It’s been a year and a half since the hotel’s anti-virus license has expired. They still run the useless outdated McAffe Virus scan on some of the computers here. But it appears that more than a few of the computers are running AVG Anti-Virus Free now. It’s funny how management totally disregards the License Agreement:

    AVG Anti-Virus Free is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only. Use of AVG Anti-Virus Free within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.

    So I’ve decided to narked them out. Fuck them. I’ve had it with these fucking cheap ass cocksuckers and their continued nickel and diming. It seems these people never have heard that you have spend money to make money. Yeah I’m more than a little pissed off that it’s been over five years since I got a raise. With all of this cutting corners and cheating the system the hotel does I would think they can afford to give me a raise. But no. They just keep doing shit like this.

    At some point I keep thinking that shit will change. That the managers and owners will eventually wake the fuck up and start running this hotel the way it is supposed to be run. I also think that they should have taken better care of covering up shit like this. I guess they have no clue just how pissed off a guy can get when it’s been over 5 years since his last raise. Sometimes you got to learn the hard way.

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    Tuesday June 27th 2006
    Robbed 1:35 am-
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    You just can’t buy this kind of bad press:

    Police seek two in armed robbery
    South Beloit police are looking for two men who robbed the Shithole Hotel early Sunday morning. According to police reports, the desk clerk said a black man carrying a long-barreled shotgun approached the desk from the north hallway at 1:02 a.m., pointed the gun in her face and demanded money. She gave him money and noticed a second black man standing around the corner, who then also approached the desk.

    All of this I personally find very funny. When I got robbed back in the day we had cops doing security. Which makes this post even more of a “I Told You So” than before.

    One thing worth mentioning (for comedy value alone) is that after I was held up the hotel management at the time decided to install four cameras. Two of these cameras look at the front desk area, One looks in back at the drop box, and one looks at the first floor pop machines. The idea was that the cameras would stop anyone from robbing the hotel. Which up until now it did I suppose.

    Being as old as this camera system is the recording device is just a vcr. Now this thing will record about 24 hours a tape I believe. When you watch it time is played back at faster pace so it all looks like some bad black and white keystone cop movie. But on the night of robbery there was no tape in the vcr. Which one has to wonder just how incompetent is the hotel management that they can’t put a blank tape in the vcr?

    Lets go back to the Security topic again. Now the two guys had a shotgun. What would the hotel engineer (yes it’s still the hotel engineer doing security) do if he happened to come up while the place was getting robbed? At the most the guy has his tool belt and maybe pepper spray. The guy also is one of those guys that wants to be a cop. So the guy would have most likely got himself and possibly the desk clerk hurt.

    Is the money the hotel is saving by not having cops security worth risking it’s hotel employees? Because that’s the way I see it. These cheap fucks are even too stupid to figure out that all the cops wanted was a raise or two now and then to make them happy. A month later and a fucking engineer is still doing security on the weekends? According to the gm engineering was a “temporary solution”. Does it take a month or more to get rentacops? I’m starting to think that this is just how it is now. Which really is sad.

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    Monday June 19th 2006
    My Night 1:50 am-
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    Was going to “blog” about this but decided it was another time to post a Gawain chat log:

    [01:33] Gawain: what up?
    [01:33] *** Auto-response sent to Gawain: Yeah I’m playing Dark Age of Camelot at work! You think those assholes pay me enough to do work?
    [01:34] Turk: hey
    [01:34] Turk: I had a drunk I called the cops on
    [01:35] Turk: guy just looked fucking odd
    [01:35] Turk: set off my spidey sense
    [01:35] Gawain: lol
    [01:35] Turk: turns out the guy was like drunk I’m going to die drunk
    [01:35] Gawain: nightauditey sense?
    [01:35] Turk: yeah
    [01:35] Turk: so I may have saved the guys life
    [01:35] Turk: plus the dumb fuck had a warrant
    [01:36] Turk: so the moral of this story is don’t call the night auditor 5-10 times in a 2 minute time period

    Honestly folks if you have a warrant out on yourself try not to annoy the disgruntled night audit guy. Because when you call down six times and the first time you worry about being a pain in the ass and the audit guy say no of course your not a pain in the ass. Well guess what? You are a pain in the ass.

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    Wednesday June 14th 2006
    Dummies Book 1:44 pm-
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    This would be a sure sign of the end of the world:

    Hotelblues Dot Com Dummies Book

    You can make your own here.

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    Monday June 12th 2006
    Work Log 11:13 pm-
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    This entry is a log as it happens of my night of “work”:

    • 10:53 pm-Typing this as I get dressed for work. Running late as usual. Must leave by 10:55pm or I will be late.
    • 10:56 pm-Leaving for work. Going to be late again. Of course if I hadn’t typed this I would have been on time.
    • 10:58 pm-Actually pull out of drive way.
    • 11:05 pm-Punch in at work.
    • 11:14 pm-Publish this entry
    • 11:22 pm-Gather the folders of the desk clerks who worked today. Tossed aside until I pull their paper work later on.
    • 11:24 pm-Printed House Count Report, Cancellation/Denials Report, Credit Limit Exception Report, Daily Activity Report, and the No Show Report. All of these reports go to the Sheriff.
    • 11:26 pm-Turned first only walk in away. They didn’t like the rate of 79.00 plus tax. It’s a shame I don’t haggle with these assholes.
    • 11:30 pm-Started to count my cash drawer.
    • 11:37 pm-Finished counting the cash drawer, one phone call interrupted me.
    • 11:43 pm-Call from above some sort of crazy stalker bitch. Guest requested she be told they are taking no more calls. Usual kind of thing for the clientele of this hotel.
    • 11:47 pm-Took paper work out of folders so I can start to balance the credit cards.
    • 11:51 pm-Took reports printed earlier and use them to balance credit cards now that the paper work is all sorted.
    • 11:53 pm-Credit cards balanced. I take all the paper work and folders and chuck them aside till later.
    • 11:57 pm-Time to disconnect the shitty cendant provided isp so I can hook up the good charter provided wireless isp.
    • 12:02 am-The wireless bridge finally resolves the ip address and I’m on the good net!
    • 12:03 am-Boot up Trillian.
    • 12:13 am-Preparing for actual audit done by computer. I print a Guest Name List and the Clean and Vacant Room List.
    • 12:16 am-Room and Tax posted by the computer.
    • 12:18 am-Cashier Closeout completed.
    • 12:19 am-Began Close Day.
    • 12:21 am-Fired up Dark Age of Camelot. Playing a Bonedancer on Midgard/Lancelot.
    • 12:27 am-Gawain finally logs on to aim.
    • 12:31 am-Corrected my retarded typo. It’s a Bonedancer not a Bonelord.
    • 12:36 am-Close Day is complete.
    • 1:27 am-Asshole Redneck Guest doesn’t understand english. Wanted his clothes which were dry cleaned. The phrase “I do not have your clothes here, please check your room” is to much for his redneck mind to handle.
    • 1:42 am-Logged out of Dark Age of Camelot, for now.
    • 2:05 am-Gawain logged off. No one to entertain me now.
    • 4:05 am-Printed miscellaneous reports.
    • 5:26 am-Transmitted the credit card batch
    • 5:45 am-Took all of the reports and paperwork and tossed it in back on one of the desks like I always do.
    • 5:55 am-Logged out of Trillian.
    • 6:00 am-One long god damn hour to go.
    • 6:11 am-Why isn’t it 7:00 am yet? This thought goes through my head until I leave the hotel.
    • 6:25 am-Time to unhook the good internet and plug back in that shitty cendant provided isp.
    • 6:50 am-Ten minutes to go. Here ten minutes equals an eternity
    • 6:55 am-Five minutes to go. A pattern emerges?
    • 6:56 am-Four minutes to go.
    • 6:57 am-Three minutes to go.
    • 6:58 am-Two.
    • 6:59 am-One. Hurray first shift is here!
    • 7:00 am-Take me home Jesus!
    • 7:12 am-Home and I wonder did I punch out? Don’t really care. I’m home.

    And that is my usual night.

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