This is the most amazing thing I've seen since Fleury's save against Ovechkin the other night:
What you're looking at is the space shuttle Atlantis against the Sun as seen from an Earth based telescope. Yes, this picture is real.
What you're looking at is the space shuttle Atlantis against the Sun as seen from an Earth based telescope. Yes, this picture is real.That picture is crazy! Seriously, how crazy is that picture? Nuts if you ask me! And pretty damn cool too!
Anyway, something totally unheard of happened today: Michael Phelps won a race. His first swim meet since Beijing and uh... yeah the media totally mentioned his meaningless suspension. Glad that no news is still no news. The real news here is that Phelps is now sporting a snazzy goatee and he still set a world record. Whats new pussy cat, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!
If you take a quick look to the sidebar on the right, you'll notice that we are now T minus 29 days to No Doubt's concert in Pittsburgh aka My Date with Gwen Stefani (and 4 guys, the 3 dudes in the band and my Hot-As-Balls boyfriend). I'm starting to get REALLY excited here. Obviously, I'm not going to immerse myself in No Doubt's music while reading up on hockey blogs, message boards and chatrooms. God, it looks like June is going to be the best month ever.
Fuck! I forgot to request the day off for my cousin's Graduation party today. Dammit!
Next week is Associate Appreciate Week at the hotel. I'm sure a Penny Candy day and Ice Cream Float day will make me feel way more appreciated than I do already.
Shame on me, I shouldn't be so sarcastic about Associate Week. They're trying to make us feel a little more motivated but the fact that I know that it pretty much went unnoticed by my department's upper management is something of a morale killer. The bottom line is that after Associate Week is over, we're going to go right back to being overworked, underpaid, miserable, tired, stressed and frankly that's just not an environment that anyone wants to be in.
Misery loves company and boy is it getting a lot of it lately at our hotel.
During a lull in the Front Desk action, I actually caught myself talking about the Snap Cup from Legally Blonde 2 earlier today (I'm outing my boyfriend as being the influence of this thought since he totally texted me and told me he was watching it. Whatever, that movie is a guilty pleasure, I can admit it) and explaining the benefits that come from just recognizing people for the little things they do every day.
If you don't know what a Snap Cup is, just watch the movie. I can't bring myself to explain it. Or just go ahead and click the link: Snap Cup.
The point is, people need motivation to show up every day--not just for a week. Employees are not kindergartners that will sit still if you flash some cookies in front of us or work harder if you give us a gold star for one day. Those cookies go stale after a while and the gold star fades and is forgotten about in a few hours, things need to be renewed.
I'm seriously considering going to management about this.
Maybe not necessarily an idea like Elle's Snap Cup but some daily Front Office Kudos might work pretty well. Where us as employees recognize each other. "Hey I overheard my coworker helping a guest this way." "I saw this guy step up and do a great job in this situation." It doesn't have to be fancy, it just shows recognition.
Hmm... stay tuned.
Anyway, something totally unheard of happened today: Michael Phelps won a race. His first swim meet since Beijing and uh... yeah the media totally mentioned his meaningless suspension. Glad that no news is still no news. The real news here is that Phelps is now sporting a snazzy goatee and he still set a world record. Whats new pussy cat, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!
If you take a quick look to the sidebar on the right, you'll notice that we are now T minus 29 days to No Doubt's concert in Pittsburgh aka My Date with Gwen Stefani (and 4 guys, the 3 dudes in the band and my Hot-As-Balls boyfriend). I'm starting to get REALLY excited here. Obviously, I'm not going to immerse myself in No Doubt's music while reading up on hockey blogs, message boards and chatrooms. God, it looks like June is going to be the best month ever.
Fuck! I forgot to request the day off for my cousin's Graduation party today. Dammit!
Next week is Associate Appreciate Week at the hotel. I'm sure a Penny Candy day and Ice Cream Float day will make me feel way more appreciated than I do already.
Shame on me, I shouldn't be so sarcastic about Associate Week. They're trying to make us feel a little more motivated but the fact that I know that it pretty much went unnoticed by my department's upper management is something of a morale killer. The bottom line is that after Associate Week is over, we're going to go right back to being overworked, underpaid, miserable, tired, stressed and frankly that's just not an environment that anyone wants to be in.
Misery loves company and boy is it getting a lot of it lately at our hotel.
During a lull in the Front Desk action, I actually caught myself talking about the Snap Cup from Legally Blonde 2 earlier today (I'm outing my boyfriend as being the influence of this thought since he totally texted me and told me he was watching it. Whatever, that movie is a guilty pleasure, I can admit it) and explaining the benefits that come from just recognizing people for the little things they do every day.
If you don't know what a Snap Cup is, just watch the movie. I can't bring myself to explain it. Or just go ahead and click the link: Snap Cup.
The point is, people need motivation to show up every day--not just for a week. Employees are not kindergartners that will sit still if you flash some cookies in front of us or work harder if you give us a gold star for one day. Those cookies go stale after a while and the gold star fades and is forgotten about in a few hours, things need to be renewed.
I'm seriously considering going to management about this.
Maybe not necessarily an idea like Elle's Snap Cup but some daily Front Office Kudos might work pretty well. Where us as employees recognize each other. "Hey I overheard my coworker helping a guest this way." "I saw this guy step up and do a great job in this situation." It doesn't have to be fancy, it just shows recognition.
Hmm... stay tuned.
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