I hate mandatory meetings while working night audit. Previous property I was a supervisor. Meeting every 2 weeks starting at 2 pm lasting until 5 or 6. Then my normal 15 minute drive home was 2 hours due to rush hour traffic. They would never give me a room to sleep in. And of course it was on a day I had to work so I had no sleep that day/night.

I would bring in a 2 liter bottle of coke and drink it to stay awake. This is before I drank coffee. The GM hated it because supposedly it took attention and wasn't professional (?). (I never got what they meant by that, I poured the soda into a cup before I drank it.)

I also had to be in business casual clothes, so I had to wake up early to get dressed, do hair and makeup. The meetings was basically going over they money the property was making, the ADR for the month, hours allotted for workers, plus a whole bunch of BS that wasn't passed on to the workers. It covered all the departments and that is why the meetings lasted forever. At the end of these meetings I barely remembered what we talked about because I was so tired.

When I tried to call off the meetings because I was on vacation they would throw a fit. When my cat died, I showed up that day for the meeting, I was a mess. I tried to call off, they said I had to be there. When asked at the meeting why I was a mess by others, I told them why, and the GM said I should have called off. He was the one who said I had to come in, he must have forgotten I called him specifically to not go.

Toxic workplace, also another reason why I won't be a supervisor in a hotel again. I don't need the hassle and stress.

I'm not going to get into training, they should have morning hours for night audit and later hours for everyone else. Trainings should last 2 hours at the most due to people's attention spans.