On today’s episode of my other spa manager is a millennial:
My knee started to really bother me during a couples massage and my coworker saw me struggling. Later she offered to massage/work on my still injured/recovering knee, she did for about 15 mins and it felt so much better.
Unknown to me, when I went to the front desk to get something later, my manager looked at me and said “Is your knee hurting?” I said “not right now, she worked on it and it feels much better.” Then she goes “[coworker] told me you were in pain and that you weren’t going to say you were in pain so she suggested that you take it easy for a bit, so….want to come in for a half a day tomorrow instead?”
I was like WOT. Like 1- it’s hilarious that my coworker KNEW I wasn’t going to say anything about the pain I was in 🤣 she picked up on that real fast. 2- decided to tell our manager and to make sure my workload wouldn’t be too much tomorrow (oh, earlier I told said coworker that last week I did eight 90min massages in 3 days and that’s a lot for a LMT) and 3- that my manager was like TAKE HALF THE DAY! So instead I asked if I could leave early and she said “of course!”
I am so used to the resort spa and the previous director not caring about my knee/pain, and couldn’t understand why I kept asking NOT to have more than 4 in a row.
And now? It’s only been a month and this second spa’s manager and my coworkers already care and feel the need to help me out? 😭😭😭
