It’s been a year since I’ve started working at a hotel. This is my first hotel job. I work at the front desk. I actually wanted to work in the hotel industry, I mean the hotel discounts + talking to different people from different places and occupations.
I genuinely wanted to get into event planning in the hotel industry. It can be a pretty rewarding job.
I work for a good company and I have great managers. However, this shit is fucking tiring. It’s draining. These people go insane when they don’t get a specific floor or when they have to pay for parking or breakfast.
My company says “When you have a passion for helping people, then hospitality is the right job for you”. bullshit because all I am helping are entitled rich people.
Every day I ask myself, “How does anyone last so long in this industry?”. In the past year of my working here, 3 people have quit.
It’s not the company or the job, it’s the PEOPLE. I am so over it. This is an adult daycare. And I don’t get paid that much to deal with these people’s problems.
Boohoo you didn’t get the 5th floor on a sold-out night and you didn’t get housekeeping one day during your 10-day stay. Or they throw a tantrum when I gave them cocktail napkins instead of dining napkins, I DON’T WORK IN FOOD AND BEVERAGE.
Also they just specifically asked for napkins. How am I supposed to know the difference? I just work the front desk, I don’t know everything nor can I solve all your problems.
There are people that are dying in the world! There’s a bloody war going on right now and you’re mad at me because you didn’t get the 5th floor…
Thank you for reading this, I am over this industry. And I am someone who actually wanted to be in this industry.
Now I just want a little office job where I work weekdays and don’t work weekends or holidays. Where I can take little weekend vacations without having to request those days off every time.
Please let me know if there are other positions I should look into besides the hotel/hospitality industry. I am genuinely over it.