Solo Time

First of all, we found out who the Regional Director was for the Phoenix area - Phil Snyder. I sent an email to him yesterday afternoon explaining that our RD will be contacting him to discuss the possibility of a transfer there. There has been no response to that email yet, but these people all have their plates full of more important duties so I'm not surprised. We will just have to be patient and try to make it happen. We really don't want any part of LA, so I think we have agreed that if it doesn't work out for a transfer to Phoenix, we will probably leave the company and go back to the more relaxed lifestyle.

The situation here is deteriorating  more each day. The Community Sales Leader, Lydia, was fired while we were off Sunday and Monday and our Maintenance Manager, Gary, gave his 2 week notice while we were away. They were both good people in our eyes and the residents are all upset over those moves. They will be even more upset when they discover we are leaving as they all tell us, regularly, that they like us better than any of the other managers because we care more about them and are more sincere. That will be the main thing we will miss - the friendships we have gained with the residents. The other managers mean nothing to us and that's primarily because they are so much into themselves that they are difficult to get close to. We hope to have some progress made today on our desired transfer.

Our two long days are today and tomorrow and even though we will be solo, we would rather work this way without the other managers around. We had an ecall this morning at 5:45 AM - false alarm - where a resident heard commotion coming from another apartment down the hall. We didn't hear anything, so that ended that call. Knock on wood, we haven't had a real ecall emergency for a couple weeks now.

The last thing to be mentioned was that the COO visit - scheduled for yesterday - was cancelled. We really don't know what was behind that, but it is a good thing. I guess the meeting we had on Tuesday was enough for everybody that visited from the Region and maybe they were the ones that cancelled the visit. We're just glad that we didn't have that circus to deal with...