So I have finally started my first training shifts in my hope department. I will be working in Channel Distribution/Reservations. Basically, we set the room rates for the hotel by predicting how many rooms we think we can sell in order get the highest revenue possible. It's pretty cool. There are three other interns in the department with me, and we all get along pretty well.
To start off, they are training us in reservations. They placed us with a reservations supervisor, who is a UNLV student, and happens to be younger than all of us. For the first four hours of training, we went through and read the training manual out loud, each taking turns reading a paragraph. It was unbelievably boring. Later, we finally got started working in Stratus, the property management system the MGM uses. Just like the Marriott system I used last year, it is way out of date (DOS-based program). I guess I've been spoiled using Windows so much... Anyway, I guess I'm now an expert making reservations at MGM Grand. Or something like that. We get to take a room tour today, which is pretty cool... hopefully we'll get to see the SkyLofts, which are these two-story lofts at the top of the hotel, which are basically not sold to the public, but kept for invited guests of the casino. A friend of mine is also trying to finagle us a tour of the Mansion, which contains 29 exclusive villas that run over $10,000 per night.
We had our New Hire Orientation yesterday. Basically, they went over a lot of the same stuff they did last week. Once again, we are experts. The nice thing was that they had us do a scavenger hunt around the casino (I think they said it's 4 football fields long? huge.) which was cool. As prizes, they gave everybody 2 free tickets to Crazy Horse Paris, a topless/artistic show they have at MGM Grand. I knew I'd be getting free tickets to something, so I had planned to take either Aunt Bobbi or Aunt Cathy with me and just flip a coin or something. Luckily, at the end of the day, they also gave us two free tickets to KA, the Cirque du Soleil show we have at MGM. Now Aunt Bobbi and Aunt Cathy can both go---it will be interesting to see who chooses to go to the topless one. I also bought tickets the other night to go see Boston and Styx in June. They're celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Thomas and Mack Center at UNLV, so all the tickets were $25--I'm pumped.
Not much else to tell, at the moment. The weather has been beautiful. I've been taking the dog for walks a lot. Now every time I come home, he jumps all over me wanting to go outside. Yesterday, I refused to take him because I don't want him to think he can just get what he wants whenever he begs for it. We'll see how well that works. The dog has it pretty good, though.... the other day he got a nice portion of our New York Strip steak (I was hoping for a second serving, but what can you do....). Anyway, it's been fun playing with him. He's very loyal.
That's all, for now. Weekend is coming up... hopefully some good stuff will happen. A friend from Cornell will be in town, so I should get to go out a bit.
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