New Job

Recently I have been trying to get another job, after being tipped off that many people were leaving the gift shop I spoke with the manager a few times and he said he would take me on in a week’s time, my customer service experience in Morrisons helped a lot. However, he told me to check with the Housekeeping manager first because he didn’t want to go around stealing other people’s employees. This didn’t sound like good news because I knew this woman wasn’t the most flexible of people. So, I talked to some friends and they suggested that I become a really bad worker, so that they would be happy to be rid of me. So, I began to miss some parts of the cleaning process out, such as the ‘courtesy fold’ on the toilet paper or the cleaning of a sink or two. However, it made me feel terribly guilty because the supervisor kept cleaning up after me without reporting me to the manager – so this plan really failed. I spoke to the manager today and her immediate response was ‘uuuuuuhhhh’ mixed with a rolling up of the head and coming down with a blunt ‘no’. She informed me that 50% of the Housekeeping staff were leaving very soon so she couldn’t let me be taken away, although she said she would talk to the gift shop manager about it – I am not sure what that means. Hopefully he can convince her to let me go.
I have seen abundant amounts of wildlife lately, Canyon is quite closed off and in the middle of nowhere with woods surrounding everything. Last week I saw my first Grizzly Bear wandering all jolly down the slope of the hillside below, we saw it only for a second before it disappeared into the trees and green dips. There is also a ‘friendly, neighbourhood buffalo’ around the cabins that I clean, they gave it a name but I am lost for it now. A few days ago brown flashes began appearing around the buildings when I was cleaning, I couldn’t figure out as to what these were (it was certainly a LOST moment) until a single yet colossal buffalo came charging right towards me and my cleaning cart, scaring me witless. Luckily, it turned away within a few yards and sprinted around some distant cabins, but I was sure ready with an escape plan to take hiding in one of the hotel rooms after that – they can actually run three times faster than humans and many people have been attacked or gored by them so far this year. There are many small creatures too, like squirrel and gerbil type animals – I don’t know their real names but they often run inside the rooms while cleaning and attempt to eat the trash and put their mucky footprints all over fresh towels. My friend Mary was shouting at a very dedicated and consistent squirrel earlier, always hiding beneath the balcony at the sight of her. There are also many deer type animals, again I don’t know their official names, but they stand out in the woods around here a lot.
Last night I went to Lake Yellowstone with Mary, from New York, and Eli, from Macedonia – which I never even knew existed previously. We got stuck in a Bison jam which stretched for miles; I was fascinated, while Eli and Mary were not as they are common occurrences. It was like driving through a safari, albeit a very American one. The Buffalo were dotted all over, dark beads from afar, almost like rocks, and up close they remind me of Viking warriors. Although, very lazy and placid ones as they are often stuck still in the centre of the road with no apparent sense of the vehicles around them. Many began chasing each other at great speeds along the road, swerving in and out of the traffic at times, which I can tell you is pretty damn scary. When we got there it was around 8 pm, the sky was a dark grey with a hint of navy and the clouds curled and swelled in so many ways I have never seen. They blanketed the vast pool of water, except for a small golden opening in the mountain beyond. The lake was of such a great range that the water extended over the flat horizon, the closing day and slight mist formed the towering mountains across into silhouetted layers of multiple shades, like from the eloquent hand of the abstract painter.
Right now there is an intense thunderstorm going on, rain so dense and close between that I see teens bolting on ubiquitous self made paths, covering their precious heads with whatever is at hand. The power keeps going out in flashes, although sometimes I can tell not whether the blink of darkness is from a twitch of my eye or the spark of a bulb.
I now have my weekend again, as they say it is my Friday, so hopefully I find some fun stuff to do. I will possibly go kayaking on Lake Yellowstone tomorrow; however a friend invited me to their leaving dinner with some other friends at the posh restaurant above our terrible EDR (Employee Dining Room).
I also got my first pay cheque last Wednesday, it came all to the grand sum of 4 dollars and 95 cents – I don’t know what happened to the rest.