More of the Little Things
Oct. 24th, 2010 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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My job has been in the process of moving our PBX operators from out of the dungeon (where they have a hoooooge office, mind you) and into Guest Services. For me, it mostly means I will have 2 - 3 people with me all night long (yay, whatever). There's been a lot of speculation as to why PBX is moving, along with speculation on whether that means Guest Services & Night Audit will move into a different office, and if we're getting new carpeting (probably not).
The bitch of it all is that they decided to put some ugly-ass burgundy carpeting on the walls. I get it, it's supposed to be a noise buffer. It makes our office look very tiny and squished in, it's made the room darker (we used to have obnoxious nicotine-yellow splotched wallpaper), and they've had to pull all the cubicles away from the walls to install it.
As a result, our primary printer/copier/digital sender is all unplugged. I'd plug it back in, but, uh... I'm not sure where that plug goes. The wiring at the hotel is kind of sketchy, and I imagine if I plug it directly into the wall, bad things will happen. If everyone goes to their rooms and turns on their t.v.s, which usually happens around 10:30pm, the power on the wall where the t.v.s are dies & Engineering has to go flip the breaker. If I attempt plugging the monstrous beast into the wall, it will probably start an electrical fire the minute I turn the power on. Either that, or it will knock out power to the entire front desk. Which might be lulzy, but in actuality it would be a tremendous pain in the ass. So I have to use the Bell Desk's copier/printer, which doesn't have a working digital sender. Back to copying hard paper backups, yay.
The desk we're set up on now has no front feet. The people doing the work have managed to break or bend the feet on every desk they've moved. I'm like, can't they pick something straight up a few inches & set it down? Do they have to drag big heavy-ass desks, which bends & breaks the feet, which are just rubber stoppers on screws? It looked like some kind of setup for the Winchester Mystery Mansion or a fun-house. Everything on the desk was tilted forward, and as I sat there, even the computer kept slowly inching its way towards me whenever I'd vibrate the desk. I gave up & stole the feet off another out-of-commission desk, tried to screw them into the bottom, only to find the holes where the feet screw in had broken screws in them already. So now the desk is just precariously perched on those two screws. One wrong jiggle & it's going to fall again.
Another thing they've done is broken the night audit desk. We had a corner unit, nice & big so we could spread all our paperwork out. It's attached to a 3-drawer cabinet on the right side, and a shelf-bracket on the cube wall on the left. First, whoever took our cube apart basically just dropped the desk onto the ground, tipping the drawers sideways. Thursday night was an adventure for me because, for the second time since I started the first time, I had to get all the crap that had slipped down into the bottom-most corner of the desk, behind the bottom drawer, to get a key to another set of drawers. My co-worker had a collection of t-pins in a drawer tray that also got flipped into the black hole o' doom. With the help of a supervisor, I got the bottom drawer out completely, but due to my arms being so short, I couldn't reach all the way to the back corner. I had to scoop stuff towards me using a duster we have laying around. Every time I reached into the fantastic pile of crap, I got stuck with the exposed t-pins. I felt like I was auditioning for a Saw movie.
I finally remembered that I had my old name tag in my purse, which has a magnetic back to it. I rubberbanded it to the end of the duster & used it to collect all the tacks, t-pins, paperclips, dead staples, foreign coins, some pens, etc. With all that crap out of the way, the only thing left was the non-magnetic key. I got all our crap re-organized & cleaned up. I just left the bottom drawer out. Fuck it, if they move the desk again, more crap will no doubt fall out of the remaining drawers. When I came in last night, they had moved the audit desk for the Guest Services clerks. They had propped it up on the other cabinet we use. I had attempted that Thursday night, but I noticed that the cabinet was just tall enough to either break the desktop in half or pop it off the drawers on the right side. Once again, whoever moved the desk was fucking lazy - now the top of the desk is bowed and it's pulled off the drawers.
To top my work week off, I found a mistake on our daily revenue report. There are taxes for a revenue center that haven't been on the report since mid-September, and the taxes for another revenue center have been wrong since then, and maybe even before. Of course, I had to be the one to finally notice this - no one else has found it, including the supervisors who are supposed to be checking our work. In a way I was relieved to see the mistake didn't originate on one of my work days - but then again, if it had, I might have seen it & caught it.
I'm so glad it's my weekend.
The bitch of it all is that they decided to put some ugly-ass burgundy carpeting on the walls. I get it, it's supposed to be a noise buffer. It makes our office look very tiny and squished in, it's made the room darker (we used to have obnoxious nicotine-yellow splotched wallpaper), and they've had to pull all the cubicles away from the walls to install it.
As a result, our primary printer/copier/digital sender is all unplugged. I'd plug it back in, but, uh... I'm not sure where that plug goes. The wiring at the hotel is kind of sketchy, and I imagine if I plug it directly into the wall, bad things will happen. If everyone goes to their rooms and turns on their t.v.s, which usually happens around 10:30pm, the power on the wall where the t.v.s are dies & Engineering has to go flip the breaker. If I attempt plugging the monstrous beast into the wall, it will probably start an electrical fire the minute I turn the power on. Either that, or it will knock out power to the entire front desk. Which might be lulzy, but in actuality it would be a tremendous pain in the ass. So I have to use the Bell Desk's copier/printer, which doesn't have a working digital sender. Back to copying hard paper backups, yay.
The desk we're set up on now has no front feet. The people doing the work have managed to break or bend the feet on every desk they've moved. I'm like, can't they pick something straight up a few inches & set it down? Do they have to drag big heavy-ass desks, which bends & breaks the feet, which are just rubber stoppers on screws? It looked like some kind of setup for the Winchester Mystery Mansion or a fun-house. Everything on the desk was tilted forward, and as I sat there, even the computer kept slowly inching its way towards me whenever I'd vibrate the desk. I gave up & stole the feet off another out-of-commission desk, tried to screw them into the bottom, only to find the holes where the feet screw in had broken screws in them already. So now the desk is just precariously perched on those two screws. One wrong jiggle & it's going to fall again.
Another thing they've done is broken the night audit desk. We had a corner unit, nice & big so we could spread all our paperwork out. It's attached to a 3-drawer cabinet on the right side, and a shelf-bracket on the cube wall on the left. First, whoever took our cube apart basically just dropped the desk onto the ground, tipping the drawers sideways. Thursday night was an adventure for me because, for the second time since I started the first time, I had to get all the crap that had slipped down into the bottom-most corner of the desk, behind the bottom drawer, to get a key to another set of drawers. My co-worker had a collection of t-pins in a drawer tray that also got flipped into the black hole o' doom. With the help of a supervisor, I got the bottom drawer out completely, but due to my arms being so short, I couldn't reach all the way to the back corner. I had to scoop stuff towards me using a duster we have laying around. Every time I reached into the fantastic pile of crap, I got stuck with the exposed t-pins. I felt like I was auditioning for a Saw movie.
I finally remembered that I had my old name tag in my purse, which has a magnetic back to it. I rubberbanded it to the end of the duster & used it to collect all the tacks, t-pins, paperclips, dead staples, foreign coins, some pens, etc. With all that crap out of the way, the only thing left was the non-magnetic key. I got all our crap re-organized & cleaned up. I just left the bottom drawer out. Fuck it, if they move the desk again, more crap will no doubt fall out of the remaining drawers. When I came in last night, they had moved the audit desk for the Guest Services clerks. They had propped it up on the other cabinet we use. I had attempted that Thursday night, but I noticed that the cabinet was just tall enough to either break the desktop in half or pop it off the drawers on the right side. Once again, whoever moved the desk was fucking lazy - now the top of the desk is bowed and it's pulled off the drawers.
To top my work week off, I found a mistake on our daily revenue report. There are taxes for a revenue center that haven't been on the report since mid-September, and the taxes for another revenue center have been wrong since then, and maybe even before. Of course, I had to be the one to finally notice this - no one else has found it, including the supervisors who are supposed to be checking our work. In a way I was relieved to see the mistake didn't originate on one of my work days - but then again, if it had, I might have seen it & caught it.
I'm so glad it's my weekend.
