Orientation

There is the supplies closet and here is the laundry room. I clean rooms 1-15 in the hotel, and you clean the rooms 101-108 outside in the motel. These are your keys. Never knock on a door before eleven, and never knock if you know for sure the guests haven't checked out yet. Unless, however, it's a guest that is staying for another night, then check your paper work. If your paper work doesn't say anything about a stay-over go check with the laundry man first--he knows best. If you can't find him, go ask Nicole Samond, who cleans rooms 109-114. She'll check with Heather Hogans who works in the gift shop. If you knock on too many doors while the guests are still in there, you won't get your tips. 

This is your room slip. I mentioned it earlier. All of the rooms you cleaned must be checked off, initialed by you at the bottom of the paper and turned in behind the front desk at the end of the day. Here are your rubber gloves and here are your rags.

If you want hours, it’s best to pace yourself. You have six hours maximum to get all of your rooms cleaned. Some days you will only have an hour’s worth of rooms, others you will have eight hours’ worth of rooms. Figure out how to go both fast and slow, but never let Linda see you go slow or she’ll think you’re slacking and you won’t get your tips.

That is John. He’s one of our handymen. He’s been here for longer than even he’d like to admit. Be extra nice to Steve, because he knows all the secrets about working here. But don’t get too close to him, because this is his last season here. And he is ready to be done with this hotel. You can be sure of that.

That’s the men’s room over there. The women’s room is over there. Once, Megan cleaned the bathrooms with bleach while Linda was out—Linda hates bleach. She says she only did it because the sink was growing mold. We all know better though, the cleaning supplies around here doesn’t work. Megan is the overachiever. She enjoys the thrill of a job well done. We all ignore it though; we’re just here to get paid.

Antonio Reyn, who is the head laundry man, is in love with Nicole Samond, who cleans rooms 109-114. Antonio is thirty five years older than Nicole but thinks because she gave him her number for work the other day, that she is madly in love with him.  

Nicole Samond, who cleans rooms 109-114, and is oblivious and definitely not interested in Antonio Reyn’s advances, has dreams of finding the right man and having children of her own. Her work-supplied housing is filled with photos of her family and cute clothes hanging in her closet in hopes of finding the perfect man. Be sure to comment on the outfits when she wears them.

But we’ren ot supposed to know any of this, so keep quiet or else your tips might go missing.

Nicole Samond, who smiles confusedly at Antonio Reyn when he calls her beautiful, is in love for Lee Hogans, who works in the laundry room. Most of the time, Lee Hogans hardly remembers Nicole Samond even works at the hotel because Lee Hogans has eyes only for Heather Hogans who works in the gift shop. They are first cousins. No once removed. No second in there. Full blood cousins. For Heather Hogans it’s just another relationship to fill her resume of romantic adventures. For Lee Hogans, she is the sunshine of his dim, hopeless life. Lee still lives at home with his parents and his only social interaction is ultimate Frisbee with the high school kids at the city park once a week.

This is your housing. There are no windows, only the doors, so pray there isn’t a fire. I’m not even sure if they have checked out the fire alarms lately. The fire department comes once a summer, but they only check in the guests’ rooms, not the employees’ rooms. The hotel across the street burned to the ground a couple years ago.