Shorter Day

Even though we still worked a little bit past our designated end time of 3 PM - we worked until about 3:45 - it was a far cry from the previous 2 days. Charlie, on the other hand, was still meeting with prospective residents when we left. He was under a different pressure to close more business before the end of the month. Our Community has to climb out of the basement in terms of occupancy (70%) and there already is a sign that the trend has been reversed. Even though Terri and Charlie have only been here for about a month, the occupancy has risen over 3%. The goal is always to achieve over 90%, so we have a way to go yet.

The day was almost entirely taken up with sales activity for me, and Josie again was learning more office procedures and accounting functions. It is a different kind of sales from the kind I used to do, but the elements of the sale are the same. It should be a fun and interesting experience.

We will always perform our pour duties at meal time and we did that yesterday for only the 2 meals we were scheduled to work. The other couple (Jamie and Rob) came on duty at 11 AM and they were to work until closing at 8 PM. We didn't get much of a chance to talk to them as they were busy doing their thing, whatever that is. Honestly, we don't know what their responsibilities are except to assist Terri and Charlie until our arrival. There is some kind of issue with them that Terri and Charlie haven't shared with us, and that is OK. Now that we are here, it is a little awkward working around them. The problem for us is that Terri and Charlie are leaving Thursday afternoon to visit their home in Oklahoma to see his mother who has cancer. They will be gone all next week and we will be the managers, along with the other couple. Our understanding is that they have another assignment somewhere and will be leaving us shortly after Terri and Charlie return from their trip. We'll see how that turns out.

Our start time today is 11 AM so it was nice to sleep in a bit and catch up on rest...