Working in a large hotel vs a small hotel

i work at a 74-room hotel, and i have to do the auditing, deal with guests, deliver receipts, newspapers, set up the breakfast area, and make min wage (8.40/hr), bleh

joe noname in Vancouver, Washington said: i work at a 74-room hotel, and i have to do the auditing, deal with guests, deliver receipts, newspapers, set up the breakfast area, and make min wage (8.40/hr), bleh

I say move to a bigger hotel! you still have to do all the paperwork but you dont have to make breakfast!!

Steve in Memphis, Tennessee said: I am currently the night auditor at a 100 room hotel and am the only employee in the hotel for a majority of my shift. At larger hotels does the auditor have to perform as many front desk duties (dealing with the guests) as auditors at small hotels do?

I am looking to change properties and am curious what larger hotels are like.

It is beautiful. You not have to deal with the hotel's guest. Also, the Auditor's department are located in the Accounting Office. I

hey all
I am a new night auditor in 110 romms I am the only person on my shift I have to combine during my shift between doing all the paperwork day reports ..ect deal with geust cleaning the front office some times I could get more tasks thants normal because it dependes on how many guests we have in the hotel or how many ceremonies and conference we will have in the next day anyway in my opnion thats not a very hard work for some one who should do that druning a day shift but it could be some times hard for some one who doing that during the night shift cause of the body condition anyway my question is for the night auditors with a experiance in this job

is there any health hazards doing this job working 5 night in every week and some times 11 nights in one time ?
if yes please would you tell me which hatards and how to avoide them ?
I am saying that because it s kind of hard to adapt your body on this timing work thank you all night auditors

i work audit in a 303 rm hotel with about 500 employees. believe me you do deal with the same issues as a smaller hotel. however, be careful. because of the ressession, i am now having to do partial fd manager duties, some of payroll and accnts receivable because they are laying off 2 positions in accounting. (there are only 5 people who work in accounting) and guess what, no raise! they arnt even going to personally train me. yay. i can tell you from experience it was better at a smaller hotel.

as far as schedules go, go to sleep right when you get home. youll be up about 3pm and youll still have a day left. the only hazards are you may become depressed from the lack of sunlight, its harder to maintain relationships with your friends because of the weird hours, and of course there are the guests who are harder to deal with because they are drunk/tired/cranky about flights/homeless/crackheads/exhibitionists/just a** holes,ect....which usually isn't the case during the day. oh and extra hazardous if youre a woman. men (and the occasional female) will try to be a little too friendly and will not take no for an answer which is very disracting and/or dangerous. also that is the perfect time for a hotel to get robbed. just saying, ive had personal experience with all ive just said. its hazardous, but an easy job sometimes. you set your own pace an you have to be quick thinking. youll never have a dull night as long as you have guests inhouse.

Wow... here I am taking a hospitality course for my associates degree and hearing about the wonderful life of a fd clerk sounds like I picked the wrong career. I did really wonder about joe Q. public. My big question is.. what do you do when someone wants to make a reservation and you just can't understand them (thick accent, drunk, etc). What is protocol at that point?

sparklegirl in Stevensville, Montana said: Wow... here I am taking a hospitality course for my associates degree and hearing about the wonderful life of a fd clerk sounds like I picked the wrong career. I did really wonder about joe Q. public. My big question is.. what do you do when someone wants to make a reservation and you just can't understand them (thick accent, drunk, etc). What is protocol at that point?

if drunk, you just hang up. If not, pretend that you are having phone difficulties, and hang up mid sentence (your sentence). Or just tell them to call back whenever you are not working.

I work at a 125 rm hotel in Chicago as a night auditor. I am the only employee on site the whole night, so I do the FD duties, deal with maintenance issues (not resolving, just accepting them), deal with any a8holes that decide to be a*holes.

The pros of my job: I have no bosses to watch over me, I can do whatever I want, I can take as many breaks as I want, I can say whatever I want, there are not many people to bug me at night, its peaceful, I can work on my hobbies, the pay is almost 12/hr.

cons: I'm alone, so I have no one to rely on but myself; I have to deliver newspapers/receipts, while tending to the FD; we are located between the woods and a highways, so...; night is when all the freaks come out.

Its not a job for everyone, and I would not recommend it if you are easily offended, scared, intimidated, or bored.

Night Audit SUX THE BIG ONE!

oh my god i could write a best selling novel on the things that have happened to me at night-and this is upscale hotel on way to south lake tahoe-farthur up the mountain the more freaking freaks there seem to be-people leaving drugs in room(several times) overbearing drunk males-who think because you work 11pm to 7am that you want to come up to their room-idiots- i do get paid well 13.50 PER HR-also i do ALL my laundry there.

Boy are you ever spot on about the drunks on the weekend and the dogs barking all night. I have done audit for 7 years now and the first night back is the pits. It does wear you out but on the plus side you are in demand getting another job because the smart ppeople do not want thses hours.

Martha Morejon in Orlando, Florida said: It is beautiful. You not have to deal with the hotel's guest. Also, the Auditor's department are located in the Accounting Office. I

Sorry, but it depends on the hotel. In south beach, FL. the boutique hotel between 27 or 40 rooms the night auditor performs "all duties" such as: check in/out guest, answer phone and make reaservations and the like; in other words, same duties as front desk + night audit. Salary $12 up.

I am a night auditor in for a 70 room hotel and I am going through what they call a dismal in disguise I need some information if anybody knows. Is it compulsory to have someone on duty at night?

Natasha in Memphis, Tennessee said: if drunk, you just hang up. If not, pretend that you are having phone difficulties, and hang up mid sentence (your sentence). Or just tell them to call back whenever you are not working.

I JUST MAKE UP A NEW LANGUAGE THAT THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND UNTIL THEY HANG UP!!!!

anyone in nh looking for a night auditor position at a small hotel? i have 40 hours available in a 57 room hotel. emial me if interested

sparklegirl in Stevensville, Montana said: Wow... here I am taking a hospitality course for my associates degree and hearing about the wonderful life of a fd clerk sounds like I picked the wrong career. I did really wonder about joe Q. public. My big question is.. what do you do when someone wants to make a reservation and you just can't understand them (thick accent, drunk, etc). What is protocol at that point?

yes I agree with you I started my school the same time a got a job in a 107 room hotel and let me tell you what I think im going to school in vain I hate this job a crap load of work for little or no pay heck I have not made this amount of money sense the 90s. doing the audit is no big deal its all automated for me other than sorting all the paperwork out its a brainless job. then you have to clean the place as well as set up all the meeting rooms deliver the departing folios and new papers then set up and prepare breakfast for the same money as the day crew. in my opinion its a bunch of crap! I should be getting paid more for doing all this extra crap.damn economy anyway grrrr. when Im done im getting a bachelor in mortuary science and im going to open my own funeral home and centenary theres the money right there man. I currently own a human remains removal business and the money I have made doing this is freakin crazy but the down fall is the stinky smell dead people you have to pick up thats why I;m in school in the first place, to get out of this but it seems to me this is what im good at so I should continue the education in this field.

I work in a small hotel in pigeon forge TN. 53 rooms. I'm responsible for doing the normal night audit paperwork as well as answer phone/make reservations, attend to guest problems, etc. It's probably the best job ever because I rarely even see any guests after 2:00 (that's only when we're busy) and I get all of my paperwork done in about 10 minutes. I do have to help set up the breakfast during the slow season though. The rest of my time is spent surfing the web, listening to music, watching movies, playing video games, and getting all of my homework done. I'm actually working as I type this. It's rad. The only downside is that I only make $8 an hour with no hope for a raise. After reading some of the previous posts I can see that it's pretty low for a night auditor. I'll probably try to find a new night auditing job with a different company sometime soon. Can't really complain though.