First Day at Work

Hannah McCormack

The first day on the job was a success! Above is the hotel that we are working at. We promptly arrived and got to the hotel early (about 30 minutes too early).  We officially began at 9 kicking off the day with a tour of the hotel by Daniel, director of sales. We entered nearly every meeting room (some twice) and got a look at guest rooms and saw the rooms in the hotel where we would be working.  Today, I was working in restaurant with Celine.  Celine was in charge of coordinating all of the different food services within the hotel.  Her job includes managing the bar, the restaurant, room service, and large dinners.  We started off by looking at the hotel´s performance over the weekend.  We saw what parts of the hotel had been successful over the weekend as well as places where profits might have not been as high as one would have hoped.  After reviewing weekend reports, we went to the kitchen to get food for a photo shoot.  The hotel wanted to photograph food in a hotel room to display in an electronic picture frame by the concierge desk. A nice cheese place, some ice cream, salad, and cookies seemed to do the job.  After we took the pictures, we ate the cookies (I ate the cookies). We went back downstairs to Celine´s office to finalize plans for the dinner the hotel was hosting tonight for 32 people. Some last minute changes requested by the client caused a little bit of stress.  I then found a new best friend named Cesar.  While Celine was on a call, Cesar and I spent the rest of the day setting up tables for the dinner that night.  We were quite the dynamic duo.  He reminded me of Larry from the Three Stooges.  No wonder we got along so well.  Two thirty came around a lot faster that I expected.  After today, I no longer understand why adults complain about work.  Can´t wait for tomorrow!