Ah, the glory of management...

One of my employees just had surgery to remove a growth from one of his testicles. I'd known about it for a while, so I was prepared for it. He works the evening Manager on Duty shift on my off days, but I was only going to have to pick one of his shifts up, and we could security to come in early to cover the others. Total, though, he'll be out for 8 days. His surgery was Monday.

Monday evening, my full time night auditor asked me what we'd do if she got sick - not that she was planning on getting sick, or anything, but, what were our emergency plans, cause our other night auditor has sever arthritis, and working more than his two nights a week really made it act up. I told her that I or the guy out for surgery could easily cover that for her if she were sick, or needed some time off.

Tuesday morning, the part time night auditor calls me to tell me his mother died. She's been a terminal cancer patient for almost a year now, so it wasn't entirely unexpected. I offered my condolences and called my manager, telling him I'd be working the night audit on Wednesday and Thursday, and we'd need someone to work my MOD shifts those nights. He asked me to get the full time girl to work one, so we'd only need to find one MOD. She agreed, for a box of Runts, her favorite candy.

So, Bridget and I got to spend Valentine's Day together, or at least the part of the day after she got off from work and before I left for work. We had a great dinner, and enjoyed a lot more of each other's company than we had in a while, and then I left to spend the night at work - I had a room set up, because I'd be getting off work at 7am, and going back at 3pm to MOD.

My full time auditor calls me shortly after I get off: she's running a 102 degree fever. There are 4 people at this hotel that can run the night audit, and three of them are now down for the count; looks like I'll be Night Audit again tonight. Won't be a problem, I can be a lazy MOD. Mostly stay in my room. They can call if they need me. Only problem is, because we only 4 occupied rooms, I'd also scheduled myself to work the 3-11 desk shift. *sigh* I managed to get someone to come in to cover that shift, though - which could have been very difficult, because of the way some of my employees schedules work, and considering the number of them that were now out.

The full time girl called again today, and thanked me for working the shift last night, and she'd be in tonight, she was feeling somewhat better. When she showed up, she was still running a 101 degree fever, and looked it. So I took a 3 hour nap and relieved her about halfway through her shift, sent her home. I have to MOD again this afternoon, during which there is a freaking Mardi Gras Ball, and we'll see how she's feeling for the night audit tonight.

Bridget, I did tell her I wouldn't be able to work Sunday night. So she'd better be well by then.

And that was far longer than I meant it to be.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, I'm testing for my 2nd dan in Jackson, MS, on Feb 24. If all goes well, I won't look like an ass while I'm doing it.