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only 11/180 rooms in the hotel i work at are reserved. this number has been dwindling for weeks. i joked yesterday with my wife about how one of these days im gonna check the numbers and see 0 stayovers and 0 arrivals, but that& #39;s becoming a reality.
as far as i know, not a single one of us has received hazard pay. we were given the option to receive a gift certificate to stay at a different hotel (same chain), but in order to get it you needed to respond to an email that i didn& #39;t have access to until after the cutoff date.
the first 2 months of quarantine we had no boundaries set. we had rope only 3ft around the front desk and no glass. 3.5 months in they put up plexiglass and removed the ropes. we can ask guests to wear their masks in the lobby, but were told not to press the issue.
there is a massive touch screen in the wall in the lobby that guests use to take selfies and get tourist info. because of the way it is built we aren& #39;t able to sanitize the screens. i& #39;m sad every time i come into work and see new pictures in the rotation.
when someone checks out of their room, we& #39;re supposed to set the room to Out Of Order for a certain number of days. management said this was to give the virus a chance to die if anything in the room was contaminated. the max time we& #39;ve ever set was 3 days, not the recommended 12.
when all of this started we were given a list of questions to ask guests when they checked in. these were related to covid, in the sense that if they had recently been to a "high concern" area we were to turn them away. i never saw this questionnaire actually implemented.
(that questionnaire was thrown out after about a month btw)
the rules here have changed seemingly every few days, with new standards and policies coming out of no where with no warning. sometimes these new policies don& #39;t really make it from manager meetings to the front desk, and then we get reprimanded for not doing things up to code.
but the reason i started this thread in the first place is to say this hotel is in oregon. oregon, if you dont know, is currently on fucking fire and the smoke is coming into the city. it& #39;s so bad in some areas that you can& #39;t walk more than a mile before your lungs don& #39;t work.
and even with the city drowning in ash, even with covid cases spiking, we have no received hazard pay. we are still open, and still accepting reservations.
and people are still booking rooms for a hotel in the middle of a pandemic, staying in a city that has been at war with the police for the last 100+ days. and almost every guest i& #39;ve talked to has asked if it& #39;s safe to go outside.
it& #39;s not fucking safe! the air is toxic to breath, the cops will stop you if you look like you might even be slightly on the left, we& #39;re in the middle of a fucking pandemic and half of you mother fuckers still won& #39;t wear your masks above your chins!! no it& #39;s not fucking safe!!
but it has to be. so i say & #39;this is a good area& #39;. (a guest was assaulted at the park behind the hotel) & #39;this is a safe place to be.& #39; (we are 5 blocks away from some of the heaviest police activity). & #39;portland is a great place to vacation.& #39; (our sky is on fire why are you here)
