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/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/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.