Recently I’ve been having a string of awful terrible days!! Let’s just say, work is not all it’s cracked up to be. I know, I know, work is work and you do it to pay the bills, but let me just tell you… housekeeping… is an extremely underpaid job! Before I go into my emotional spill here and a huge revelation I had yesterday, let me give you a few pointers for the housekeepers while you stay in a hotel!
1. Tip, I know, seems crazy, you just spent a ton of money to stay there, but I can assure you, the housekeeper isn’t getting paid enough for it. It doesn’t have to be much, just a little 5 dollar bill would be nice, it just really brightens up our day! (I’ve gotten 50 twice, now that was a fabulous day!)
2. If you’re in your room, ALWAYS put the privacy sign on the door. It is so frustrating trying to figure out if people are in the room. We don’t want to bother you, we don’t want to disturb, and if you’re still sleeping (we start at 8:30am!) we don’t want to walk in on you thinking you’re gone for the day, so just put privacy up, and take it down when you’ve left so we know it’s safe!
3. Don’t throw all your towels in the tub when you leave… I know you think it’s polite to get them all in one place, but it, for some reason, is a lot easier to pick them all up off the floor, then bending over a bathtub.
Those are my small rants for the day! Now back to the topic!
So… like I said, I’ve been having bad days! Back in highschool, I was never this negative. I had a friend who if one tiny thing went wrong for the day, her saying was “It’s not my day!” Every single day, there was something that didn’t go her way that made for an awful awful day! That was so sad to me back then because the stuff that happened wasn’t a big deal, it could be fixed. I remember telling another friend that it’s frustrating to see someone have a bad day over such stupid stuff because for me, a bad day is when someone dies. So that line ran through my head yesterday as I was having yet another awful day (My girl time was not my best friend yesterday and my work shoes are so crappy, I’m pretty sure they’re injuring me, and with my race tomorrow, it’s stressing me out!) I started thinking though… besides hating the job I have here at Disney, there are still so many things to be thankful for, and I want to go back to the days when I didn’t let a bunch of little stuff define whether or not I had a good day or a bad day. I then started listing the reasons why I still was having a good day… I have people who love me (at home and in Orlando), No one has died today (that I know and love), everyone I know is in good health, I have a healthy body that is able to do the work I’m given, I’m about to run a Half-Marathon and not everyone can do that, I have a job that provides money, I have wonderful friends who care about me and check on me daily, I’m not in bad health, the biggest health scare I had was successfully taken care of, I could go on and on!
It’s my goal to let these define my good and bad days, as long as my friends and family are taken care of, they are all healthy and alive, I consider that a good day… because in the end, that IS what matters!! Another thing I’m really thankful for at the moment is knowing that I have a good college education, when I get done with Disney in August, I’m not going to be a housekeeper my entire life, and thank goodness for that because I honestly think it’s already aging me, and I don’t want help in the department! These older women who do this all day every day… I don’t know how they do it, I understand they are just providing for their families, but they seriously deserve more because it is NO walk in the park, I tell ya!
What defines a bad day for you? Are you letting the small things get to you in a bigger way? What are some things you’re thankful for?
I’d love to hear answers to all of these!
im sorry you’ve been having bad days… ive had a rough time lately, too… sometimes its easy to let the little things get you down! usually working out, reading or getting out for a bit (get fancy for dinner, blogging at starbucks or browsing target, usually) brighten me up a bit!
Well, this is just the perfect humbling experience for you then (not that you are not humble already) but when you start marketing career you might have to travel and stay in a hotel. You’ll know how it feels to be the lady that cleans your hotel room, and tip her and then it will make her day!