So...good news: I got an extra hour of work tonight, which means just a little bit more on my next paycheck; always a good thing. The bad news is that I got that extra hour because the cleaning ladies just walked out without vacuuming or mopping the floors. And nobody knows why. They just left, so I stayed late to finish the close while our cafe lead mopped the floor. So I'm happy about the extra money, but annoyed at the cleaning ladies for leaving us in a mess. It's not the first time they've bailed on us either, but usually they have some excuse (seems like everyone in their family, including them, has been ill sometime in the past five months). At this point, their jobs are looking a little shaky. And I don't get how anyone could think it was a good idea to jeopardize their job when the unemployment rate in this country has passed 10 percent.

They also couldn't have picked a worse night to do this. We were busier than we have been because holiday shopping has picked up, but our schedules are still reflecting the slow months we had this fall, so we're still running on skeleton crews. We were also training our new guy, who does fine on drinks and register but has never closed before, so we were trying to get everything done while explaining to him what we were doing and why. And the icing on the cake is that the FCOM (field cafe operations manager) is coming for a "visit" tomorrow. Meaning he is going to show up at 9 a.m. to tell us everything we're doing wrong, so we were also trying to get the last cleaning tasks done tonight.

Yeah...wonderful night for the cleaners to bail. I'm just a little annoyed.