{"id":2818,"date":"2013-12-19T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2013-12-19T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T01:02:08","slug":"flyin-blind-at-sea-12192013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Flyin\u2019 Blind \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [12\/19\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FlyingBLind\"<\/a>It\u2019s hard enough learning new job responsibilities. But when you\u2019re learning those new responsibilities and the system you\u2019re supposed to be learning on *isn\u2019t working properly* it makes it a little more difficult. It\u2019s true that I\u2019ve always been a sink or swim person, if you throw me in at the deep end I\u2019ll usually manage to thrash my way to the surface, and I have good people behind me on this one \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t make it any easier per say.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the guests are (mostly) understanding, and the IT Department is working like crazy to get the problem resolved, and I have two trainers on call helping me out, \u00a0but in the meantime I\u2019m still the front lines\u2026and that\u2019s all that the pax really sees. I *want* to be able to help more, but so much of what is needed is beyond even my newly assigned authority that my hands are pretty much tied. I can do much more than I used to, but not everything I ideally would need to be able to do.<\/p>\n

On top of that, I\u2019m still trying to find time to free up space for nearly 200 books that are coming in with the new quarterly order for the world cruise in oh\u2026just under a week and a half\u2026I have nowhere to store the books that are being pulled (well, I will once IT gets all the computer monitors out of my storage locker but they haven\u2019t had any more time to tackle things than I have), I\u2019m working with the HRM to try and find somewhere to donate said books too (I\u2019m hoping for the Philippines as I\u2019d like to be able to do even a little bit to help the situation there). It\u2019s a longer cruise for the holidays so we have bridge instructors, though they \u2013 thankfully \u2013 are quite lovely.<\/p>\n

The other positive thing is that I have an incredible event manager, who has pulled me off of all my usual \u2018extra\u2019 duties; no more bingo, no more trivia, I don\u2019t even have a book club this cruise. \u201cYou have enough on your plate\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

So\u2026flying blind\u2026and attempting not to accidently\u2026I dunno, crash headlong into a cliff or something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard enough learning new job responsibilities. But when you\u2019re learning those new responsibilities and the system you\u2019re supposed to be learning on *isn\u2019t working properly* it makes it a little more difficult. It\u2019s true that I\u2019ve always been a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-Js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}