Kerry Reid Martin

Growth You keep growing and changing. It’s wonderful to watch. Likewise, the experience of raising you, and the subsequent balance between work, s...

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Still fighting the good fight against interview ghosting.

The combination of work/school/apply for jobs/network for leads/parent/be a functioning human being is getting a bit stressful.

I love UoPeople, but I literally have due dates on Christmas, and I work on Christmas as well.

It’ll be worth it one day. I’ll make Brooklyn proud of me.

Okay so let’s change it up to 20 albums in 20 days, no explanation.

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Day one.

Unfortunately, this behavior is so commonplace in the hospitality industry. I’ve worked with some truly terrible people. I’ve stayed longer than I should have because the employees deserved better.

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This same guy is now the Regional Director of Operations for a hotel management company based in Austin.

It’s time to expect more from the business leaders in our communities.

It’s time to demand more accountability.

The executive chef and I came to this GM and told him about the verbal abuse and sexual harassment the staff was experiencing from the F&B Director, and he blew us off.

Our hotel was on South Padre Island in the Gulf, and the same GM instructed the F&B team to advertise gulf-caught shrimp but serve frozen shrimp from Thailand.

I was thinking of a hotel GM I had early in my career. He once instructed our entire full-service hotel team to review our own property on Google because technically we are experiencing the hotel as employees.

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Oh no, I just realized it was only a 20 day challenge, so that was it! Maybe I’ll keep going, or maybe I’ll switch it up and do 20 days, 20 albums. 🤔

If it’s petty, then I’m petty, but I truly detest this current job climate and think it’s time we all started providing feedback directly to key stakeholders.

Day twenty.

#booksky
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Day nineteen (get it?)

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Employees Only Bar’s social media post announcing they are open on holidays.

My response to them that it’s not a flex to brag about keeping employees from family on holidays.

Just saying.

Day eighteen.

#booksky
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Today I got a bunch of reading done, along with a discussion assignment and a practice quiz for one of my courses.

Long day…

Can I also say, I wish it were easier to follow back people in bulk here.

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A month later and I’m still using both Bluesky and Threads about the same amount of time, which is a little more reduced because I’m busier during the day.

I think the reason I’m still on Threads is that it integrates better with Insta and FB, where my IRL friends are.

Meta still sucks though.

School’s going well this week. Unfortunately, the way that’s working best for me while working is to devote the entire weekend to school, but that’s how it goes, I guess.

Brooklyn is walking around a lot more now. It’s really exciting!

I need to find a way to freelance in my spare time. Reflecting on that time in my life, I really did have fun.

Day seventeen.

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Backbeat Magazine

Today is the 14th anniversary of the first time I was ever published as a freelance writer. :)

Here’s the last part:

I interviewed a few months ago for a Sales role and the GM loved me but the Regional Sales Director never followed up. He just added me on LinkedIn. I sent him this:

Day sixteen.

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Brooklyn Walks You are really growing into such an amazing person, Brooklyn! You are very confident with walking now. You especially love walking into yo...

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Work is going well, though I don’t love sales, I’m pretty good at it.

The salary is significantly lower than we can really afford long-term though so the hunt continues.

School is going well. I’m getting used to focusing on it after work, which has been a bit of an adjustment.

Day fifteen.

#booksky
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