I loved working at hotels in my youth because I had absolute authority when I was alone and I used it to study my graduate degree while I worked 40 hours a week and studied full time.
My job was almost always done by the time I got there. I’d speak to maybe 3 people all night and because I’d get along with people they’d constantly shout me out.
When anyone called we were magically sold out. My predecessor accidentally gave away 1000’s of dollars of snacks and drinks in a scam so I padded my pathetic food budget with free monsters, chips, anything that could get me a free meal. And us hotel workers are treated well. Free food, good perks. I did this from 25-30. I really recommend it if you want a job that has pretty much no oversight. I sure do know how to run a auditing updating though.
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Dream job!! paid, free snacks, and free time!
I did this too! The days before cameras.
Had a friend work overnights in early 90’s for a few years Guest Quarters…he was in a suburban corp area. Professional travelers, he got so much sleep on his 11-8’s.
Hope it was a timeshare chain and not a locally owned
So why is it called an auditor? What are you Auditing??
How do I get one of these “I did nothing for 10 years and got paid $45,000 a year.” jobs?
Two of my friends worked their way through college doing night shift guard duty. The worked high-rise office buildings, empty at night. You carried a card and had to scan the card at a station on each floor within a certain time interval. In between scans, they would do homework, take naps, read a book, or etc. Sometimes, they worked in the same building and could cover each other’s stations while the other one caught a longer nap. You kept a private list of security items, broken locks, windows unlocked, and used the excuse of writing those up to cover oversleeping and missing a card scan.
I was a night auditor. I used it for time to study and read.
I worked front desk at a hotel for a few years. There was this guy who worked the night auditing shift. He did whatever he wanted. He’d hook up his PlayStation and play Diablo all night or whatever game he wanted. He’d binge watch TV shows. It’s such an unwanted position due to working overnights. He’d always show up, and never called out. Other night auditors could barely last a couple months or even weeks, so he was always working overtime. When I quit, he had been there for like 13 years. He’d do his actual job in like 30 minutes and mess around for the rest of the night. Because the other night auditors could barely last, management just kept him and never bothered him about a single thing because they knew that if they fired him then management would also be covering his shifts, and they absolutely did not want to be doing that.
I hated night audit.. can’t lie
Except it’s the graveyard shift. No thanks. I did that for two years in my youth. Not worth it.
My friend did this in the 90s. They would occasionally be asked to do morning call duty. So it wasn’t all that free.
so…what exactly was your job?
I worked at a shitty Holiday Inn for a while and most of my shifts were the shift before the night auditor would come in. I just stood at the desk and watched Adult Swim shows on the computer for hours. It was pretty sweet most of the time. It was also old af and really fucking big with a “”convention room” and an old ass restaurant. I’d sometimes use a flashlight and walk around back there like I was a fucking ghost detective sometimes. But yeah shit was fucked. I’d be literally the only employee in the building from like 6 to midnight.
The night auditor at Lake McDonald lodge in Glacier Park won the Calvining contest. Said he would pour himself drinks at the bar every night.
I miss working for hotels
I am gay and I met a guy online who invited me for a hookup. He gave me the address of a hotel. But he wasn’t a guest. He worked the desk at night. He brought me in the back room and ……. He invited me back several times. I then found out that he had a steady stream of guys coming and going all night long.
I did this for 8 years, slept most nights in a guest room or the laundry room. It makes me sleepy just thinking about it.
It was embarrassing when I would forget to run the audit. I’m there for 10 hours and would forget to do the only 30 minutes of work that was expected of me.
When I worked night audit, I’d drink, smoke, sleep on my shift. I even had sex on the clock. Great times.
Miss being a night audit. 10mins of work total. Also got paid by taxi”s(pre Uber) for every airport port run I sent their way. Made an extra $200/night average from tips from them.
Did you ever see the dude coming in for free breakfast every morning when you were in your way home?
I would totally go back to night auditing if it paid more. I also got my degree during that time and carb load on the continental breakfast every morning. I dont know if this is standard or I just had a shitty manager but we didn’t keep inventory on anything, only reordered when it was low. I got a ton of free shit, and if something was in the lost and found for more than 90 days it was up for grabs. Got a $150 camping blanket that way, a housekeeper got a brand new unopened keurig. Third shift just wasnt worth the $16.50/hr and I quit when my boss denied me a raise when minimum wage went up to $15
As a former General Manager, I know you well! I worked with you to improve, came in on the overnight just to walk you through procedures so I could help you get better at your job, assuming you were just sort of slow or stoned. I dealt with the guest complaints and other weird scenarios, as well as the complaints from the morning shift who had to pick up your slack, but I eventually fired you once I realized you did not give one solitary fuck and we’re an anchor.
I get it, but man, we treated you really well, paid on the top 25 percentile, gave you 2 weeks of vacation, 12 sick days, a 401k, and pretty great health benefits, and bent over backwards to help you grow. It was really disappointing 😢.
I worked overnight security at a somewhat upscale hotel for a while. Easiest job ever. The night auditor/manager was very chill and told me to do as little as possible. I remember that since I was in college, I took my laptop out and completed about a semesters worth of work for one class in about 2-3 hours. Got free Red Bull, and never did much besides making sure there weren’t any homeless people lurking around outside or in certain parts inside the hotel. Made the floor walks once per hour. That was it.
Dang, that sounds great! I’m always happy for people like you when night audit was like what you had. When I did night audit, I was stuck on camera for almost the entire 8 hours. I could read textbooks, but I couldn’t sit, and had to be in camera view (besides restroom breaks, making coffee, or using my 15 minute break). I was also the only employee there, so it was great when a sports team came in and parents were upset I couldn’t deliver extra towels to their room in the middle of the night when they were soooo tired. Also, they purposely overbooked, so I’d keep hoping no one would show up on huge convention weekends in the county, and luckily it was always in my favor when I worked.
Coworkers for the most part were good, management sucked and wondered by no one stayed, even during the recession.
Bruh……. I was a night auditor at a sleezy motel in college too and it was great! I did NOTHING work related. I would bring my tablet and watch Trailer Park Boys and smoke weed in the lobby. I’d dig through the individual boxes of cereal for the continental breakfast and eat all the marshmallows from the lucky charms and throw away the rest. This was back before weed was legal, and multiple times cops would come in while I was smoking and they would always turn a blind eye because I was happy to make them room keys to conduct searches on rooms who they saw cars outside belonging to people that had active warrants. One time the housekeeper found a dude who had been tied to a chair for a day after he got robbed by a hooker. Another time I watched a homeless dude sucker punch a cop in the lobby after they told him they couldn’t take him to jail for a warm place to stay for the night. He told them “you’re GOING to take me to jail tonight!” Then punched the cop square in the nose.
I only stopped working there after the place was condemned. Sometimes I miss that place………
I ran my eBay business there. Brought my laptop and camera. Did basically nothing else. Unfortunately it was sold to a big corporation and they wanted me to actually work. I quit
Did this my freshman year in college.
Only had a couple eventful nights. One was a wedding party where everyone was absolutely wasted. Had to help multiple people to their rooms. Another was some crazy family gathering where everyone was blitzed. Same issue, just with older people.
Did this for a year. It was awesome. Sometimes got laid and was able to nap for hours at a time. Replaced a guy that was looking at kiddie porn on the computer in our office.
I did this at the LSU facility club. We only had 13 rooms but we had a freaking huge kitchen and banquet room. I ate so good while i worked there, had a room anytime i wanted, and got the best grades ever. Freaking Katrina had to ruin it for me when insurance companies rented the rooms for the next two years.
I did this job. Honestly, it was too boring for me. Time fucking dragged. I was allowed to read, watch movies, whatever. But I slept like shit, was tired all the time, and worked 12s. Plus, I made shit for money.
But at the end of the day, pretty chill.
I’m a teacher now, but before that, I was a custodian. That was a better version of a chill job with hardly any oversight. 9 hours a night essentially alone, listening to podcasts and Youtube videos all night. Took a break whenever and wherever. Sometimes, I dipped out early, and I didn’t even have to clock in/out. Had federal holidays off and got paid for them.
If you’re looking for a job, peep out some some school districts.
I did overnight valet during college. No oversight, no coworkers to split tips. Expensive cars would just pay me direct to allow them to park for short visits in front of the hotel while they kept their keys instead of an actual ticket.
1am -5am was dead so I got all my studying in then and room service dude was cool and would let me get one of their expensive salads on the house.
Kills your social life but overnight jobs in college are generally easier, way more chill and you essentially get paid to study for the majority of your shift if you please (if the role is conducive to it). Really wish I had been able to do 24 Hr Fitness for the ultimate get paid/study/workout trifecta
If you don’t ca out. We hiring.
What are the hours typically and what does a night auditor do?
Nobody else here on night audit got shoved a literal fuck ton of work that took about 5-7 hours to slog through?? Seriously? I got SO fucking jipped.
That’s my current job and I pretty much do the same shit lol