Life Is Not Purgatory
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Chopping Block!
... I feel like Robespierre!
Yesterday it was officially announced that the owners had received and accepted an offer to purchase the hotel, conditional upon satisfactory completion of a 60-day due diligence process. The prospective buyer also owns the other two properties and the management contract would go to the existing holder for the other two properties, which means that likely if this goes through, the GM and the three division heads (myself included) will likely be out of jobs... although there is a chance that the GM will be be offered the Director of Operations position for the complex, and I could be offered a similar position there, but it's unlikely. Everyone else should be just fine... but there is a lot of resentment of the other property amongst my staff so holding on to them for the next three months could be tricky.
We'll see, I was headhunted once last week and I started putting out resumes when I first heard we were for sale and have receive two interview requests already (one in Sherwood Park), so we'll play it by ear for now.
... I feel like Robespierre!
Yesterday it was officially announced that the owners had received and accepted an offer to purchase the hotel, conditional upon satisfactory completion of a 60-day due diligence process. The prospective buyer also owns the other two properties and the management contract would go to the existing holder for the other two properties, which means that likely if this goes through, the GM and the three division heads (myself included) will likely be out of jobs... although there is a chance that the GM will be be offered the Director of Operations position for the complex, and I could be offered a similar position there, but it's unlikely. Everyone else should be just fine... but there is a lot of resentment of the other property amongst my staff so holding on to them for the next three months could be tricky.
We'll see, I was headhunted once last week and I started putting out resumes when I first heard we were for sale and have receive two interview requests already (one in Sherwood Park), so we'll play it by ear for now.
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:: posted by Lazarus, 10:10 AM
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Catastrophic Data Loss
... three words that strike fear into anyone who has a clue.
At 3:00pm yesterday afternoon, the file server at my hotel suffered a one in a million failure of the main drive and the mirror which has resulted in a massive and irreparable loss of data. While our IT person was able to retrieve data from an uncorrupted backup – that backup was around 11 months out of date, destroying every document and application installed/created/modified and stored on the file server since September 2006.
Fortunately, through an EXTREMELY fortuitous circumstance, my new auditor performed the night audit on a different station 5 days ago and the backup was stored locally on that machine. Which meant we only had to jury rig four days of transactions from the time the server came back up (and remained stable), and 7am this morning… which would have been much easier, were I not in Spruce Grove. However, I am extremely happy with the leader of my Front Office team, who pulled an all-nighter acting as my eyes, ears and hands for almost three hours over the phone. It worked and although I have about a weeks worth of work just fixing the jury-rig waiting for me… that is the least of my problems.
I am leaving for K-Country this morning, and walking into a nightmare… God help me.
... three words that strike fear into anyone who has a clue.
At 3:00pm yesterday afternoon, the file server at my hotel suffered a one in a million failure of the main drive and the mirror which has resulted in a massive and irreparable loss of data. While our IT person was able to retrieve data from an uncorrupted backup – that backup was around 11 months out of date, destroying every document and application installed/created/modified and stored on the file server since September 2006.
Fortunately, through an EXTREMELY fortuitous circumstance, my new auditor performed the night audit on a different station 5 days ago and the backup was stored locally on that machine. Which meant we only had to jury rig four days of transactions from the time the server came back up (and remained stable), and 7am this morning… which would have been much easier, were I not in Spruce Grove. However, I am extremely happy with the leader of my Front Office team, who pulled an all-nighter acting as my eyes, ears and hands for almost three hours over the phone. It worked and although I have about a weeks worth of work just fixing the jury-rig waiting for me… that is the least of my problems.
I am leaving for K-Country this morning, and walking into a nightmare… God help me.
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:: posted by Lazarus, 6:13 AM
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