Staff Meeting and Work

We had a knock on our door at 9 AM yesterday and it was Sharon telling us that there would be a staff meeting at 10 AM to discuss schedules, procedures, etc. The meeting ended at 11 AM and we felt a little disappointed with the whole thing. We talked about schedules for Thanksgiving and, scheduling in general, and it seems like we won't be getting more hours until probably January. The only opportunity for us to earn pay is the coffee cart until then. It is different from what was presented to us before we accepted the job. We do understand that the park has to make money first but there are some things we feel the owner can do to accelerate the occupancy rate. Starting with the daily fees he charges. There aren't many people who would (or could) pay $55 for one night at a park that is brand new and doesn't yet have all its amenities ready for use. Coupled with the remote location, we feel he is about $30 high for his daily fee. We hope he sees the light before it's too late. It's a beautiful park, but not worth that fee - yet.

We did some work on the coffee cart in the afternoon before we had to start work at 5 PM. I will have some pictures of the cart today as we are scheduled to be trained on the machines this morning and we will open the cart soon. Our scheduled work hours have us working mostly in the evenings (aside from coffee cart hours), from 4 or 5 PM to 9 PM when everything gets closed up. We don't like these scheduled hours either. We like to have our evenings and feel that we are getting these hours only to accommodate the managers. We'll give it every chance to work for us though.

Our day is split today with cart training in the AM and work beginning at 5 PM. We look forward to our days off beginning tomorrow. We've talked about a couple things to do, so stay tuned...