Precious Vengeance....

Hey all,
Well. What an eventful week I have had. This is the story of Karma at its best. Precious, precious karma! I'll start from the beginning.
About 4 weeks ago, I started this fantastic job at The Central Hostel in Bayswater, London. Everything was great about it - I really couldn't complain - all but one problem. and that problem was named 'Precious'. Precious was basically the 'office manager' here - as in she had been here the longest of all 3 staff. And yes, her name is Precious. On my second shift, I was taking over for my afternoon shift, and counted the money and found she was £10 out. She began rambling on about 'I just checked it and it was perfect' and 'i have been here for 1 year and have never made a mistake'. I simply just checked the money - that's it. She covered it with her own money. About a week later, before my shift, she basically accused me of stealing the missing £10. she continued saying she 'doesn't trust anyone' and she 'never makes mistakes' - so therefore i must have stolen it (even though I was only in there for .25 of a second) and from that day on, she made working there hell - well, whenever i changed over from her shift.

About 3 weeks into working with her, some customers came down and asked me what room they were moving to. I looked on the chart and noticed they hadn't paid - they disputed this. At this point I was very confused. they backed up their payment with a receipt - made out by Precious. I searched through the entire chart and cash books and this receipt was no-where to be found. On a second occasion about an hour later, the same thing happened. I was seriously confused. I informed my workmate Marius about this and he began to laugh. He had discovered the same thing about another incident the night before. He went on to say he believed she had her own receipt book, and was taking in money from customers, putting them in the chart in pencil - then rubbing it out after checkout, and giving them a receipt and pocketing the money for herself.

I mentioned this briefly to my boss, and as it follows, he has a word to Precious. After this, Precious did her best to write out 'valid' carbon copies of the receipts (which we had obtained) to cover her tracks. But this also meant that she was furious with me for speaking to my boss.
I had been out with Nikki and Jessica the night before and got back to my place at around 1pm - due to start work at 2pm and was dying for a shower and some clean clothes. As soon as I walked in, I copped and earful from Precious. I told her i was busy and i would talk to her about whatever her issue was when i started work (I'm not on bloody call 24/7 on her demand!). I helped Nikki and Jess put their luggage into storage as it was Jess's final day her so i thought I'd help them out and put their luggage into our hostel storage while they went out for the day. After they had left I walked in and again, Precious began her rants. I told her i was busy and had a lot to do - and that's when it turned sour. "I don't give a fuck if your busy, you're the bitch that told Hamid that money was missing"...and it goes on... "Go fuck yourself you cow"... "don't be a bitch to me and piss me off cos I don't take shit from no one"...all the while surrounded by our customers in the common room. I held my own. I think i did quite well considering. I knew if i had dished it back, she would use it against me - i saw the situation in my favour. I have to admit i was a quite shaken up - I think more so cos my veins were pumping through pure anger - but still, i kept my cool.

After all the screaming, and yes, she was SCREAMING at me, I said fuck it and went up to my room to cool off. after calming down and all the while not having enough time to have my shower, I head back down stairs to start work. She continues on rambling to me about how she's 'not a child' and 'didn't come here to make friends...I'm not your friend' (ya think?...) and i ignored it to as best i could. I sat down to begin my shift and noticed the computer had been locked. And she told me the previous day she knew the password. Just in case you can't join the dots - she locked the computer in spite. Now this was not good as i did not know the password and desperately needed to get online to talk to Adam about his flight details as he was departing the next day.

Precious walked past and I very calmly asked her for the password. Her response? 'I don't know what it is'. BULLSHIT!!! I said 'I know you do, you told me you did yesterday' - no response. I continued 'Don't make me call the boss'...and she said 'Go for it'....so I did. In fact, I called the OWNER of the business!... (of course i did...)

I asked Thierry (my boss) to come down as i urgently needed to speak to him. He rushed over and I informed him that Precious had verbally attacked me in front of all the customers - and in addition to that, i thoroughly explained the missing money. It was like watching domino's fall. We found error after error, and the missing money kept getting higher and higher!

I had a big grin on my face cos I knew i caught this bitch out! Thierry said he needs to fire her, however we were very short on staff - and what do you know, Nikki pops in for a visit. Thierry talks to Nik, and essentially gives her the job on the spot!

So today, Me and Nikki went out for a morning coffee until we had to go to work. During this time, Precious was getting the axe! I turned up to work and spoke to Thierry and it turns out he and the two other owners interrogated her - and she could not come up with anything to explain herself - not even a bullshit story! Apparently she was being quite dramatic and was screaming and trying to call their bluff by suggesting they call the police if they really thought she was stealing. At the end of it all, they asked her to leave.

Me and Nik have been at work all day, and have had a good time - it's odd - I'm training Nik and we're now working and living together! Awesome. However we have been here all day, and Precious still hasn't left her room (she lives in the hostel - but soon to be relocating) and has been in there all day. We have come to the conclusion that she is aware I am working and the only way out is through the reception so she's waiting till I finish work - I might just pull and all-nighter! Haha! The walk of shame! Gold.

You see, this has been the best week for me. Adam is arriving in 9 hours from now and I'm about to pee myself with excitement. Nikki just got a job with me and is now living with me, and on top of that we have been spending every day together which is great to spend time with the most awesome person! It's great to spend just nik and ash time - reminds me of old times (we have a good 20 years of memories!!) and what really puts the cherry on top (i don't like cherry's tho....) is that after all that shit that the bitch put me through, Precious got the sack - and I can't think of a more brilliant example of Karma.

What goes around, comes around...

love you all,
ashinlondon.x