Offer Letter Received

Our meeting with the owner and our supervisor yesterday only lasted about 15 minutes. The owner wanted to let us know that our performance was excellent this year and she handed us a letter that essentially outlined duties, schedule and pay for next year. If we want to accept the offer, we sign it and return it to her office. There are a couple problems with the letter as it stands now. The first problem is that Josie's duties were described the same as they were this year when actually, she will be working with Karen and I at the Comfort Inn, behind us at the front desk. We wonder who reviewed these letters before handing them out. The  second problem was that the number of days was specified (4 days per week) but not the shift. We had requested the day shift, but the offer did not specify. Anyway, we haven't decided yet on what we will be doing next summer so we can think on that some more before responding.

The other noteworthy thing that occurred yesterday was that we received notification from Amazon.com that they wanted to move back our start date from Oct 24 to Nov 7. They offered to allow us to come in one week early (Nov 1), but they evidently over-hired for our start date. That will change our schedule a little but will also give us more time to spend at Patty's in Naperville. There are 2 other couples that we work with here in Cody that were scheduled to start with us on the 24th of Oct and they also received the same notification.

Today should be fairly busy at work since we only have a small tour and very few reservations which means that there will be many cabins to sell. With only 2 days remaining this week, it will nice to get done so we can spend our last weekend doing something that is fun. We have talked about one last trip to Yellowstone which we would like to take early in the morning when the wildlife activity is at the highest level. Our problem has been getting up early enough to arrive in the early hours. Our work schedule doesn't allow getting to bed early, but we will probably bite the bullit for one night and get an early start on Thursday with less sleep. That's the plan right now...