So, I've been pretty rubbish at posting. I'm sorry. I've got two more delayed-posts that I want to share, to do with some very exciting summer-camp related stuff, and I hope I can get them up later today (it's my day off, so I should have time). I'll do them back-to-back, then we're fully caught up.
Anyway, I wanted to do a 'typical day' for my first Days in the Life post, but I realised I'm never going to have such a thing, so I should just get on and write about what I've got, and you'll get the idea of what it's supposedto be like as we go.
10:00 - wake up for breakfast, having enjoyed a lie in because I don't have a morning shift today. Eat said breakfasst with other staff at the far end of the restaurant, while speculating about which bits of mountain will be busy today, and will it be worth going out or not.
11:30 - start work. Set tables, feed some people soup, hoover dinning room & bar/lounge area, mop bar/lounge area, polish window sills and other things, wash some glasses, refill salt & pepper shakers, polish cutlery. Believe it or not, this takes two and a half hours.
2:30 - finish work. Sit in staff lounge with friends and catch up on emails & the blogsphere while we watch something strange on tv.
3:00 - tidy room a bit more, so that roommate doesn't start tearing her hair out. (Not that roommate would actually do this. She's too nice to say anything about my messy-ness, but I am trying to tidy up and then keep it tidy.) Head across the village to the post office. Discover that it costs extortionate amounts of money to send a small package to my brother, but pay for it anyway.
4:00 - start work again. Iron napkins for evening service, clean toilets, set up tables and bain-maries for kids/staff tea. Feed children, then eat dinner with fellow staff, where we complain about guests, children in the hotel, and work in general.
6:15 - help tonight's waitresses set tables, then go back down to the cold little ironing room to count the clean sheets & towels that the laundrette have sent back. Spend a lot of time going up and down stairs to put things in their cupboards once they've been counted.
8:00 - continue to count laundry as I watch finishing time glide gracefully past. Finally finish with laundry, and go to mop the set of stairs to the staff area & customer toilet that always seem to get filthy. Alter the housekeeping sheet for tomorrow morning so that morning housekeeper will know which rooms need changing over.
9:07 - finally finish work, come down to staff lounge & discover that internet is not working. Decide to watch CSI instead, because I got Season 2 part 2 in the post today.
9:20 - disturbed from watching by roommate, who is currently waitressing upstairs, and has come to ask me to clean up sick from beside reception as all waitressing staff are busy at the moment. Clean up, on the condition that brownies are offered later, but not actually expecting any brownies to be forthcoming.
9:30 - sit down and watch the rest of the episode, plus another one, undisturbed. Discover internet is now working, so spend a while looking at bits and pieces, and talking to the ex.
12:00 - decide that I'm not really interested in going out tonight after all, and therefore bed might be a good thing. Here endeth the day.
11:30 - start work. Set tables, feed some people soup, hoover dinning room & bar/lounge area, mop bar/lounge area, polish window sills and other things, wash some glasses, refill salt & pepper shakers, polish cutlery. Believe it or not, this takes two and a half hours.
2:30 - finish work. Sit in staff lounge with friends and catch up on emails & the blogsphere while we watch something strange on tv.
3:00 - tidy room a bit more, so that roommate doesn't start tearing her hair out. (Not that roommate would actually do this. She's too nice to say anything about my messy-ness, but I am trying to tidy up and then keep it tidy.) Head across the village to the post office. Discover that it costs extortionate amounts of money to send a small package to my brother, but pay for it anyway.
4:00 - start work again. Iron napkins for evening service, clean toilets, set up tables and bain-maries for kids/staff tea. Feed children, then eat dinner with fellow staff, where we complain about guests, children in the hotel, and work in general.
6:15 - help tonight's waitresses set tables, then go back down to the cold little ironing room to count the clean sheets & towels that the laundrette have sent back. Spend a lot of time going up and down stairs to put things in their cupboards once they've been counted.
8:00 - continue to count laundry as I watch finishing time glide gracefully past. Finally finish with laundry, and go to mop the set of stairs to the staff area & customer toilet that always seem to get filthy. Alter the housekeeping sheet for tomorrow morning so that morning housekeeper will know which rooms need changing over.
9:07 - finally finish work, come down to staff lounge & discover that internet is not working. Decide to watch CSI instead, because I got Season 2 part 2 in the post today.
9:20 - disturbed from watching by roommate, who is currently waitressing upstairs, and has come to ask me to clean up sick from beside reception as all waitressing staff are busy at the moment. Clean up, on the condition that brownies are offered later, but not actually expecting any brownies to be forthcoming.
9:30 - sit down and watch the rest of the episode, plus another one, undisturbed. Discover internet is now working, so spend a while looking at bits and pieces, and talking to the ex.
12:00 - decide that I'm not really interested in going out tonight after all, and therefore bed might be a good thing. Here endeth the day.
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