you may have heard me grumble about work on occasion...well it just gets worse. so unbelievably demotivating and unpleasant. i find myself not thinking about going to work until the very last possible second because it depresses me so much.
basically i work for some small, 4 star hotels in the most beautiful and blessed of locations in the west highlands of scotland. they used to be privately owned and the team i worked with in sales and marketing made a pretty good job of what we did. the owners sold out to swallow hotels last year which we knew was going to be bad. the marketing function was disbanded and strangely enough sales went to hell. we rejoiced when swallow went into receivership and we bought over by 'seemingly' high standard hotel group Folio. Huge promises were made - one2one meetings with HR, prospect of higher wages, job satisfaction, hotel refurbs - the whole thing. 5 months later we are so far in the shit its not true. Weak management, no direction, no sales strategy, no marketing whatsoever, staff morale is non-existent and bizzarely enough guests are pretty thin on the ground too.
why u still here then stupid? well, the brains at the top are still paying me the same wage to do a menial and brain mumbing job, the hours suit and its close to my kids. the next 'right job' hasn't come along yet. got offered a job which would have been amazing but it was just a little too far away. soo wanted to buy the cafe but was too poor.
i feel a strange conflict of emotions...really why should i care, i'm so far gone that i'm totally demotivated. but then i see them totally dismantling everything our team worked for in the past. and they know best, oh yes they do. what would the likes of me know? (i stress that this is their point of view NOT mine, they piss me off but they don't dent my ego!)
well that's made feel loads better - bit heavy though, sorry to any poor soul who read this xxx
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Well said.
I was working for Folio until a couple of months ago but like some colleagues, saw the writing on the wall and got out. It was out of the frying pan into the fire!! The small privately owned hotel I came to, working for the most wonderful family, is also about to go down the gutter. This economic downturn is hitting everybody HARD!!
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