Staffing Shortages

As I understand we are the only hotel in the Starwood company in Arizona that is still hiring anyone. As the economy dictates it is really hard for companies to justify hiring new people right now. This has become an interesting issue at our hotel because we have recently lost a few people in our department and not been able to replace them because of this. Although we are still hiring they have decided that because the season is ending that we can not justify hiring any new people that will be stealing hours from the full time people that have been with the company for awhile now. It is kind of a catch twenty two right because we are all a little over worked but we will be wanting hours in the summer. When I spoke to our general manager about it he kind of told me the same thing, just that hard work now means regular work in the summer. Although that may be the case it seems silly not to have a full staff at all times. It is a weird subject to tackle.