I’m sitting in bed at a place called Microtel Inn & Suites. it looked nice from outside and the lobby looked alright but looks can be deceiving. The first room I was given was dirty. It looked as if someone was still living in it- bed unmade, dirty towels in the bathroom, etc etc. I’m annoyed and for a moment because I’m so tired almost decide to stay in the room anyway… then think “I can’t sleep in that fucking bed, who was in it before me?!”. 

I’m given another key to a room on the 3rd floor. The first thing I notice after getting off the elevator aside from the noise of screaming children is the smell of smoke. As in cigarette smoke and the shit is STRONG. Not only is it nasty but I sort of found it amusing seeing as the entire building is ‘non-smoking’.

The 3rd room was also dirty. I’m not only annoyed but now disgusted. What the fuck is going on here?! I go down and tell the chick whats up and she looks at me in complete disbelief. So much so she tells me she’ll go up to the room with me. I don’t know what purpose this would serve but to annoy me further. But wait! before she can get to me I have to fucking wait though 4 more customers to be checked in before she can verify that the room is indeed dirty as I discribed. I made it a point to loudly annouce the issue I had with my rooms. The other customers took notice but she tried to ignore what I had said. After discribing in full detail how nasty BOTH rooms where I said something like… “what did your cleaning person quit?”. 

She finally comes up stairs with me and confirms the room is a complete mess then puts me in another room which… ta da! is actually clean and about 3 times the size as the previous 2. It took me a while to figure out why but after stepping into the shower I noticed it was a handicap access room.

I’m still so pissed off about it all that I’m having a difficult time relaxing.

So onto the topic of the post. I took a job in Phoenix.. not exactly sure how long it will last- hopefully a year. With contracting you never really know. Yah thats right something new again? I wrote a huge post about how the old company I worked for folded but I guess it didn’t post for whatever reason. To make a long story short the company I was contracting for stopped giving their contractors work, but never fired them. A lot like what the mangers did to Milton in the movie Office Space.

I have about another day and a half of driving so I guess I’m going to try and make myself goto bed…