Job 2.0 & going back to school.

It's rare that I feel the need to post on my blog about the same subject more than once but I'll make an exception in this case. You know that song by Theory of a Deadman where he talks about how he hates his job, and his boss, and he doesn't get paid enough money to put up with it. Yeah, I feel like that guy a lot lately.

I may not have a college degree but I'm not an idiot, and I'm way more computer savvy than either of my Indian boss' are. I do not do well with being yelled out or talked down to like I'm a moron, and I especially don't take kindly to having both done at the same time.

My female boss decided to raise her voice at me and basically tell me I am making too many mistakes and I need to pay attention. So many things wrong with this it's not even funny.

1. One of the mistakes I made was on the program we use to take peoples credit card information and take their payments. They have completely changed this program as of about three days ago and I'm having to figure it out on my own because my boss is an asshole. Sorry if I make a mistake on a program I've used for less than a day.

2. I accidentally took out the wrong person's room information from a cubby and stapled it to the correct person's information whom I had just checked out. Yes, I should have been paying more attention, my bad. But the word "hypocrisy" plays a huge role in what is wrong with this. The same person bitching about me having made this mistake had just a week earlier put not one, not two, but five peoples information into the wrong room number cubbies and acted as though it was nothing.

3. If you are going to complain about a mistake I've made at least make sure you make a note of it so I actually know what the hell you're talking about. I check people in and out and take payments constantly. Other than cleaning, that's the entirety of my job. Do you really think I'm going to remember some joe shmoe that stayed one night a couple of days ago, what room number he was in, and what information I printed out for him? NO.

4. Either I discount people to keep them from going to another hotel or I don't.. Make up your fucking mind and stop telling me I shouldn't let people leave and I discounted too much in the same damn breath.

5. I am a woman, yes, and I live in the south, yes. But that doesn't mean I call everyone "hun," "sweety," or "darling," and I find it kind of offensive that my boss would even ask me to do that. You're in BFE Alabama, trust me when I say, any guest staying with us that see's a young white girl as apposed to a middle-aged Indian guy is going to be happy, I don't need to call them pet names to make them feel good. Racist? Maybe. Truthful? Completely.

6. I am married, I have parents, I have step-kids. I have a family. In other words, the business you opened is not my responsibly, my job is my responsibility. Stop calling me on my off days to try and get me to come in just because you're too "busy" getting drunk with your friends to work one shift in a week. I'm not going to come in. Just because you hate your wife and want to be away from her as much as possible doesn't mean we all feel that way. I love my husband very much and would RATHER be home with him than in that place or anywhere near you.

7. I don't work for my health or because I like to (especially not this job) I do it because I need the money. You'd be wise not to continue to conveniently forget to pay me for any hours I worked after 40. I'm not business savvy but I know enough to know that some of your business practices are not legal. If you push me too much I will push back and unlike me, you're going to lose more than just a little bit of money.

I realized the last few weren't actually mistakes I had made but hey, sometimes you just have vent. I've had 3 jobs in my life (including this one) and I can honestly say up until this point I had always enjoyed working. I do not enjoy this job. Scratch that, I enjoy the job but the boss' make it overwhelming at times.

In other news, I'm working on going back to college. At the moment I'm trying to get some past student loans taken care of. For the record, don't ever use Stafford Subsidize for student loans. I was 16 and they let me sign a contract (no co-signer) to be responsible for paying a $1,500 loan back. I suppose this is good on my part considering they can't legally hold me accountable for signing something I wasn't legal to sign in the first place.

Anyway, so I have to get that taken care of and I'm looking into some online school options. Right now I'm looking at University of Phoenix. I could get an Associate of Arts in Information Technology/Web Design in 2 years. Sounds nice. We'll see where it goes, I'd really like to have it all taken care of and starting classes by June.

-Shelby