Today Was A Bad Day

The meal at the Brasserie Centrale was good. I had a fondue which was excellent and then came home and waxed lyrical about GTA San Andreas as usual. I got to bed fairly late after demonstrating the most awesome game to the six “down-stairs staff”. I don’t know if I’ve explained this already but in the chalet there are upstairs and downstairs (or more commonly referred to as the dungeon) staff members. Basically the chalet is managed by the upstairs and run by the downstairs. The upstairs staff are constantly worrying and hate the dungeon jokes etc mainly because “they’ve got too much on their plate”. What you also find is that the upstairs blame every error they make on the dungeon, to the point of ridiculousness.

So today Naomi decided to leave because she’s fed up of being treated with no repsect all the time and never doing a thing right. Garry decided to give up in a month. I'm worried that if he goes I’ll have to be the kitchen hand and I would rather go home than work with the Chef. I started clearing the car park which didn’t take long as the “much more than 16cm” turned out to be about 2cm so I just swept it up with a brush. Then recycling. Then for the first time since 1967 I cleaned the boiler room whilst Adam removed the soot from the flue (if that’s how you spell it). It took ages and I started to get worried when the boiler started billowing smoke and the place stank. Once I gave up trying to sweep the crap up to no avail I helped the girls with the rooms lifting the beds etc. Na asked me to get some towels but they all had stains on except for one and in any case feel like that 20 grade sand paper. We finished cleaning at around 1400 for lunch and Andy finally surfaced when James got him out of bed to do the shopping for next week. Once he was gone we started in the kitchen at about 1500. I won’t go there, but all I will say is that the chef has never cleaned the kitchen more than giving the surfaces a wipe with a damp cloth. I can still hear someone hoovering and I can hear someone manoevering the bus outside. The one thing I keep asking myself is why we didn’t do this when we didn’t have guests at the start of the season. To top it off when Beccy and Nicola spoke to Adam about people pulling their weight and doing their job properly it was my name which sprang to Adam’s mind. I don’t seem to do anything right any more. The one good thing that happened all day was that James bought a new hoover and some mop buckets so at least it won’t take so long to clean, I hope.

I worked out that in the last 8 days I’ve skied 4 hours and got paid £1.40 per hour of work and I’m really considering coming home with Na.

I’ve still no idea what I’m doing tomorrow. It’s no new thing. Three weeks ago it was 2030 on the Friday evening and I still didn’t know what time I was supposed to be driving to Geneva and getting rather annoyed that nobody had told me but as Andy put it I “don’t need to f*****g know”, apparently.