ship life (its bad)

i work for a company called american cruise lines as a housekeeper, ive been here for four weeks counting this one.

as the title says, its not too great out here on the mississippi river. the pay isnt horrible per say, with 30/60/90 day raises from a ten dollar beginning. you get paid weekly with an average of 80 hrs with 30-45 hours of overtime every week. though, the only raise that really matters is the 60 day raise. at 90 days, you can earn 14-15 an hour. cool, fine, dandy even.

However.

these cruises can go upward of 14,000. typically our cheapest rooms are still 5,000. so, as you can expect, the company wants these rooms to look like they havent been lived in at all every day. 

you have from 7:30am to about 1:30pm (depending on if the rooms are on do not disturb, requested for a l8r time, could take even longer) to complete all of these rooms, which is typically about twelve or so. ive worked through many lunches (lunch is at 11:15am) to get the number of rooms down to an acceptable level, and cutting corners is just another part of ship life. 

you're assigned a "public space" to take care of each day, multiple times a day. mine currently is the cafe and i would like to throw myself overboard. but i digress. 

if your public space takes longer than 15 minutes to do (they all do), then you will have very little time to do bed bags. mine takes 20-25 minutes and 30 if im really slow. 

i gave you all this information to say: i have like ten bed bags and theyre due tomorrow lol im cooked im so fired. if you work for acl do not get on the goddamn mississipi. dont do it.