Should I take the hint and move on from this disorganized and micro-managed hotel?
hi there, I recently became a maintenance technician for a fairly small Hilton Park Hotel that had already agreed to pay me several dollars under my asking wages, even though I have 10 years of hotel, maintenance experience as well as operations manager.
As I began working at the hotel, I noticed quickly how an organized and the lack of structure there was between management being that sometimes a general manager and a hotel owners were on site at the same time constantly giving me different orders and managing me different. I slowly began to give suggestions on different computer software used to streamline work orders and preventative maintenance for a hotel. I’ve used in the past that works well while all management here wants to keep it strictly on a notepad and paper, which is very disorganized at this point in the hotel industry.
Two days ago I come into work and the owner calls me into his office and tries to tell me that there’s something wrong with me and that I have been sleeping on the beds in rooms that were turned over and was getting mud on the beds from standing on them, which was a blatant lie I don’t lay on guest beds and have been in industry for so long that I know how to keep a room, clean and fix what is inside and exit the room. I felt like telling him off and saying he must not need me because all I do is what you guys want me to do on a day-to-day basis. I also clean the trash around the whole resort. Make sure the pool is up and running day today and clean out over 100 AC unit.
The manager also asked me what was wrong with me when our break room is up over 90° so I sat out in the lobby for 15 minutes and close my eyes and took a drink couple drinks of water and he asked me what was wrong with me because my eyes were closed while I was sitting in the lobby, I mentioned to him I was taking a break and was pretty tired that day considering I had taken out six AC units from the rooms down to the bottom floor, clean them and then put them all back into each room all by myself with no help and a broken dolly because they won’t get a good one.
Finally, the day is coming to an end and my day off is not until Monday and tomorrow is Sunday so I expect to be coming in but at the last minute the boss tells me why don’t you just take tomorrow off and I hesitantly said why and he said he has his other maintenance guy coming into do stuff and he wants me to have a day off which is not what is shown on the schedule. I told him fine. I would take the day off and now I have several interviews set up at other places, but I feel like I’m being harassed and all I do is work all day on projects they need to have done. I have not once missed a work order and I’m constantly trying to get Replacement parts for the hotel that sometimes don’t come until a month later.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? I feel like I wanna sit down with them again and tell them that if they don’t up my salary or show me more respect then I am out the door. I can’t take this much disrespect when I have been in the industry longer than most of the people that are working there making the same money amount is me as I only make $17 an hour, but have responsibilities of housekeeping duties too as I have to clean floors vacuum anything else they tell me to do and I still do all of it even though I maintenance.