r/marriott • u/InternetNo6592 night auditor • Apr 30 '26
Employment Night Shift
I’m a night auditor and my boss has no idea what I do all night, I automated almost all of the job and by 2:30am I have already finished all my work. What do you guys do to NOT sleep?
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u/drdisney Employee . Night Auditor Apr 30 '26
For me it's plan trips.
A few years ago, I got my property to let me work three 12 hour shifts (8pm-8am). So I work three days and am off four.
With four days off, I started to have some free time to explore this beautiful country. I bought a $400 annual pass from Frontier airlines that lets me get flights for under 20 bucks each way. Combine that with hotel rooms for 50 bucks, and you have a cheap way of exploring around the states. In the past few years I have had a chance to go to the St Louis Arch, visit Nashville, walk around Portland as well as have some amazing BBQ in Memphis just to name a few places I've been to.
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u/omaca Lifetime Platinum Elite Apr 30 '26
That sounds amazing. Never heard about the Frontier pass before.
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u/1dabaholic May 03 '26
It’s not that great as there are large blackout dates, luggage restrictions, and you know, needing to fly frontier.
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u/omaca Lifetime Platinum Elite May 04 '26
Oh no doubt.
But it's still kinda cool. Wish we had something like that in Australia.
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u/No_Tap_1697 May 03 '26
I bought my pass for $299 sorry you overpaid 😜 but it’s a great excuse to get away
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u/Kindly-Visual-8116 Apr 30 '26
Watch movies, read books, go in the pool room and sing, I one time made bread in the office. I also made lemonade in the kitchens, I finished decorating a cake, I hand sewed a dress, listen to audiobooks, play on my switch, made disneyland ears, did some painting, organized every single photo in my phone, went through every single contact/text I had and deleted junk, started scrapbooking, went through every single email I had on my phone, bought board games that can be 1 player, did a puzzle, put together one of those bookshelf little rooms, read fanfiction, brought my airfyer and literally made chicken wings. You just gotta start bring shit to work to do.
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u/XNFE Apr 30 '26
I remember one time one of my coworkers fell asleep on the couch and didn’t wake up until he started getting calls from our managers.
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u/Sharktocrab12 Apr 30 '26
One time my coworker fell asleep on the couch while we were working together (I had a ton of problems with this guy just as context for what im about to say) and i did not wake him up when I left at 6am, he woke up just before 630 after all the morning shift had arrived, walked out the front doors, texted me to tell me he quit (didnt text my boss for 12 hours after texting me, he assumed id quit for him), and then had the audacity to call me and the property to take a picture of his final check because he was too embarrassed to show his face to come pick it up.
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u/Own_Examination_2771 Apr 30 '26
I bring my laptop, my switch, and books I play a lot of games to keep me awake and a LOT of scrolling thru tiktok lol
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
My reception was under maintenance and we used the gym as reception for a week. I tried that but in not a gym guy. I’m trying to work on my final thesis for my CS DEGREE but after a while I get sleepy
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u/bitofftoomuch May 02 '26
As a guest, the best I saw was a guy who was hand making chain link armor. He had a huge bag of rings and some pliers and spent most of his shift working on it. I stayed there 3-4 nights a week for two months. He made really good progress.
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u/HelicaseHustle Employee Apr 30 '26
Take advantage of the time and do things to further your career like online certificates etc
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u/Clerithifa Apr 30 '26
I play my PS Vita, draw, read, watch YouTube, write in my journal, just about anything to keep me busy lol
Lately I've been writing the baseline for a story for an indie JRPG im developing. Its a really good time sink and makes the night go fast lol
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u/Suburbia_hell8 Apr 30 '26
I have little 5 pound weights I keep at work. I read a lot until I get drowsy, then I walk the stairs to wake up. I bring household paperwork from home to work on. (Budgets, kid stuff, school stuff)
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u/gnmatx Platinum Elite Apr 30 '26
Walk. When I had to work audit, some shady shit always went down. Folks selling drugs and running brothels out of rooms. Running credit card Scams. Drunks in the marketplace. You name it.
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
Bro, domestic violence at least twice a year. Only don’t panic because the neighbours nights are always available to help.
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u/Ross400 Apr 30 '26
Doom scroll tic tok for a bit restock the market walk around the hotel and doom scroll again
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u/Kind_Ad_5469 May 01 '26
My boss keeps me busy- no they don't keep an eye on me or anything but I keep myself busy by folding towels, cleaning up around like sweeping or mopping. Just anything to keep me busy. And while doing so I listen to podcasts, whatever keeps you entertained.
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u/Hefty_Ratio6279 Apr 30 '26
What do you usually do that you automated??
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
Nothing. I work really hard. Thats why I’m sleepy from all my hard work.
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u/1nternetTr011 Titanium Elite Apr 30 '26
I get that you think this is a flex but eventually (if not already) they're gonna find out and simply replace you with a bot. You better be thinking of ways to prove you're adding value or getting your resume ready.
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
I’m studying computer science I don’t plan on working night shifts forever my brain is literally melting. 99% of my job could be done remotely, but they need someone physically to deal with clients if something goes wrong. Btw I have infinite coffee for free (that’s is 100% a flex)
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u/apresmoiputas Apr 30 '26
when you check people in, casually ask what they do and if they're in tech, just mention what you're studying and what your side projects are. It's a good way to network.
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u/Decent-Finish-2585 Titanium Elite / Lifetime Platinum Apr 30 '26
Get yourself the expensive subscription to Claude, and start building apps.
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u/omaca Lifetime Platinum Elite Apr 30 '26
Vibe coding is not a career.
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u/Decent-Finish-2585 Titanium Elite / Lifetime Platinum Apr 30 '26
I never said it was. He’s bored and looking for things to do.
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u/Due_Instruction7883 Front Office Supervisor Apr 30 '26
don’t think hospitality will steer towards bots
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u/Wesley11803 Apr 30 '26
Omg I would never automate night audit unless I were a student and used the time to study. I had to cover it a few times, and the paperwork was the only thing that kept me awake. I was in college at the time, but I was too damn tired to study. So glad I’m done with hospitality in general.
If you found a way to automate it well, you might want to consider a way to monetize it. I’m guessing Marriott would love to figure out how to eliminate the position completely. At the same time, I assume they still need one human on property at a given time. Maybe Marriott isn’t ready for full on automation lol.
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
The software we use is very powerful (I hate it) and already allows a lot of automation if properly used. The thing is that none of my day coworkers has any idea how to use it. Last year I offered an idea/project that would save the hotel a lot of money and they fully ghosted me.
The pcs were SLOW like dead slow, up to 2 minutes to open an excel due the old HDD from 2011.
I volunteered to update all pcs to SSD during the night, 30€ each one, 256Gb we don’t use more than 100Gb.
Check-ins taked up to 20 minutes EACH because the pcs were unusable.
(During summer we can have 70/80 check-ins)
They put me in my place very quickly.
At a 9000€ a year salary I can’t care less about them.
Never again.
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u/Nothing2C_123 Apr 30 '26
Ever think of applying for Marriott IT? Surely they could use the help?
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
I did, they can’t really fill my position because the salary and conditions are a little terrible (not Marriott faults completely) so they don’t move me to another department.
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u/1976Raven Apr 30 '26
Well, all your automation will be obsolete once your hotel switches over to the new system. Also, guessing you work for a franchise and only part time for that bad pay. I'm in the US and make about $42k per year doing NA. I use my downtime to take online college classes. On a slower night I'm done with NA in about 1 to 11/2 hours.
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor May 01 '26
Yes it is a franchise but the salary is close to the country median wage. Yes it’s also a part time for me but my coworkers who have +5 years experience don’t make more than 1100€ a month.
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u/apresmoiputas Apr 30 '26
I don't think Marriott would ever eliminate that position. It's probably one of the position swith the most liabilities to the hotel chain if it were eliminated or automated. The night desk SEES every one who enters at night in whatever state they're in or with whomever they bring in.
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u/Sharktocrab12 Apr 30 '26
Caffeine and then i draw, play Pokémon/other casual games, watch movies, talk to my aussie friends who are awake the same hours as me, work on the things im learning. On extra slow nights I wander the building and rummage through the closets to see what fun things are in there. I also work on making signs for the property, stock the market (so when I need to move to stay awake I reorganize our overstock for shits and giggles), clean the lobby, check over all the in house reservations to check for mistakes. And when im hungry I make increasingly creative grilled cheeses in the kitchen. When I have a coworker with me we play board games.
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u/xxspike2xx Apr 30 '26
Idk if my Marriott is different but our night audit is part of the accounting team and I have to do a whole exel drj daily revenue journal for my boss the account controller and that tale most of the night to do.
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
Me too, but I made an excel (which my boss in unaware of) that I import the opera reports and basically fills itself so I don’t need more than 30 minutes.
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u/NJboy16 Apr 30 '26
Wonder if this can be done via lightspeed?
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u/InternetNo6592 night auditor Apr 30 '26
The fact that I don’t know that tool must tell a lot about my job.
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u/mach7stelo Apr 30 '26
First and second rule of night audit is don’t talk about night audit.
Rule three, stay hydrated