The future looks bright, and that's partly due to having the Citation V at our disposal. We work some long, interesting days. Occasionally, we're executives by day in Stockton and housekeepers by night 500 miles away. The United State's booming economy and high employment figures mean motels hire from a shrinking pool of unskilled laborers. Housekeeping staffs have been known to call in sick - everybody at the same time.
Managers become ill or sometimes quit without notice.
That happened at two of Thompson's motels the same night. They called the office to quit, left their keys on the desks, and vanished. What's worse, we had full houses booked for the weekend at both motels. We had to split our headquarters team to get things back under control. Fortunately, the Citation shrinks our lines of communication and logistics appreciably, so we were back in business within three hours.