Enough is Enough

First of all, I hope nobody believed the "April Fools" joke in yesterday's blog about going to Alabama. The irony though is that now we are certainly going to go somewhere, based on what happened yesterday at work. For starters, there were 4 of us assigned to work the front desk, with only 3 terminals. Further, Josie and I still don't have the passwords to access the system, so one of the terminals had to be used with the Managers' passwords. That made me odd-man-out on the terminals, and also a seat. So, I spent the day standing around, checking on the departures of guests, and basically, doing nothing else. It was the worse, most boring and longest day so far for me. Unfortunately, the same group is also scheduled today and tomorrow. I have no idea what I will be doing today as the mass exodus has already occurred. We are now into our 3rd week here, and we are barely past the first day as far as paperwork and business tools are concerned. There is no feedback to us from the managers - both of whom are leaving shortly - and except for nice comments from some of the guests, we don't how we are doing, or even if they are glad we are here. Some days, we don't think they even know we're here.

The absolute worse episode occurred when I approached the business manager - the one who hired us - and asked her when she thought we may be able to get into the online payroll system to set up our deductions, direct deposit, etc. She snapped back that Josie already could register with the limited passwords she was given, and we just had to read the package she gave us on the day we arrived. Well, the package we received contained many items about the company, rules, benefits, etc. and the only reference to the online payroll system indicated that no access could be gained without a "registration" password. We were not given any these. After spending about 1/2 hour trying to register with the one "code" we were given with no success, we decided to approach the park manager today for help. In the meantime, our checks will be prepared with the maximum federal deductions taken - as single employees - until we can go online to change the data. That's about the last straw for us.

We will wait until the proper moment to inform them that this is just not going to work for us, and we will give them notice that we are departing. Probably, next Wednesday, when this next pay period ends. We are planing to offer them a 2 week period to obtain replacements for us, but we will move on right away if they don't want us to stay. Such a shame. We really like the area and the people that we've met so far - with the exception of these 2 managers. Actually, the business manager is disliked by everybody and there wasn't even a going-away party scheduled for her like there was for the park manager. Also, the company is so disorganized that even with new management here, the situation would be stressful.

With that kind of bad news - or good news, depending on how you look at it - we will endure the next week or so as best we can. Until tomorrow...