Employee of the year goes to...

Our overnight Security officer won Employee of the Year. At first I was disappointed, I seriously wanted my supervisor to win because she is the best boss ever. But when you think about it, anybody who has this job, shows up on time every day, and doesn't ever complain is a valuable employee.

This is the guy who has to deal with drunk bar patrons who are insistent that they are not in fact too drunk for another one. He has to catch the thieves who walk in our bar and steal ladies (unwatched) purses. He's the one who gets called to deal with noise complaints which can be anything from a big party to a loud stereo left on to people fighting or fucking. He's probably seen more naked people than any other employee.* He's the guy that has to deal with the drunk crying chick who's been locked out of her room. Or the gaggle of superfans that figure out when a celeb stays with us and stalk the hotel like the lunatics they are. He's the guy that got spit on when a drunk bar patron didn't want to leave because he was cut off and was starting to cause a scene. And the prostitutes! Oh the prostitutes. ** When the police figure out through craigslist or whatever (note to ho's: don't solicit through craigslist) that there is a prostitute running her business out of a room in our hotel, Security gets called to make a report as well. Things in this report may be the fact that said prostitute had a credit card machine. And I won't even go into the dead bodies - or the DB's as we call them in the biz. But I will later.

*An inordinate amount of guests answer their door with little or no clothes on. Bellman and room service people see quite a few as well.

**Even the nicest hotels have things like prostitutes, doesn't mean a thing.

So I tip my hat to my overnight security guy. You protected me when I did my stints on the overnight shift (and damn if you don't worry about getting robbed at gunpoint every once in awhile especially after reading in the paper that it happened to the hotel 2 blocks away last night). You deserve the $500 dollars and 5 paid days off. But while you weren't looking some guy just stole a painting off the wall. Oops.