Category: Hospitality Hive

This is a series of posts I made in my (now defunct) Hospitality Hive blog over the course of several years, published via the Orlando Sentinel.

The Good, Bad and Downright Ugly About This Industry

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GOOD= interesting jobs, great opportunities for upward movement, nice perks (when you get them), pretty darn good (mostly) work environments.

BAD= lower hourly pay (until you reach management level), potential for odd hours as we are a 24/7 industry, repetitious dealing with crazy tourists who are (sometimes) hot-tired-sunburned-angry at having to wait in another line-dressed like tourists who actually don’t care what they look like (and for the most part, we can’t argue with that belief, right?), etc., etc., etc.

UGLY= repetitious dealing with crazy tourists.  Oh, did I already mention that?  Well, it’s worth repeating.  Again.

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Welcome to the Hospitality Hive!

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First of all, a BIG THANK YOU for visiting the Hive!  I’m honored that you’ve peeked inside to check me out, and hopefully we’ll get to know each other through an open exchange of dialogue that we’ll keep ‘buzzzzzzing’ about (pause for long groan while wondering if this author is going to overuse that overly dramatic descriptive word; then switch to happy face after receiving author’s personal assurance that it simply won’t happen – that’s a TML promise!).  After all, this industry is first and foremost about, well, hospitality, which is loosely defined as friendliness.  So that explains why so many who enter this line of work describe themselves as ‘people-persons’, right?  (Well, at least that’s what it said on their resume, sigh. . .)

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