Edith Tippett's Page

After a year of the job not meeting my needs, I stepped down. I stayed on as simple desk clerk while I decide where to go from here. I know that the world of hospitality is crazy and demanding, but I never imagined that after 20 years in the business I would still not have a job that allowed me SOME statutory holidays off, SOME weekends off, and to actually TAKE my two weeks vacation. I would like to stay in the industry but I NEED my time off and the particular property I found myself at didn't seem to care. When I heard another manager on the phone planning his 4th and 5th week of vacation when I had not had my second, nor ANY holidays off, I lost it. It took all my years of professionalism to not walk out the door that moment and leave the desk unattended. Maybe I was wrong, but I just wanted some acknowledgment. And when I went in to resign, all it would have taken was for my manager to say "Take 4 weeks next year, the week you missed, the weeks you are entitled to, and 7 days for the 7 stat holidays you never got." Those words were not said so I bailed. I got THREE days off in July to move and end an 11 year relationship. I have been badly treated at all 3 properties I have worked at before here, are all places thoughtless and mean? Am I asking too much? With my skillset and university degrees I feel I deserve a regular job. I don't even care about working weekends, I just want two days off a week every week, barring hotel emergency. Since I am not Christian, having Christian holidays off is also not the issue, but the law says I am supposed to get another day off another time in lieu if I work Christmas, Easter etc. NEVER happens.