Freddy the Spider in the Sales Office……
Boy I have so much to say about today that I don’t know where to start.
First, the smell of the paint, stain and glue made me nauseous in the office. I found it almost impossible and after taking two aspirin for my headache, I finally left the office and accomplished nothing. Then the paint and all dried so the smell subsided a bit and I could tolerate it.
But then you had to dodge the screws, bolts, and “things” that were falling out of the ceiling as they were installing our central air conditioner. Had I mentioned that we haven’t had air? I think we saw mouse poop falling down too, yes we did. Oh and I almost forgot about Freddy. Freddy is the spider that picked me to come down from the ceiling on his web in front of my face to say hello. He landed perfectly on the rime of my reading glasses. After a 2 year old scream, need I say he’s dead. What a joke.
The military convention asked me to get prices for them this morning to rent a bus for their baseball game tonight…all 36 of them. Because I didn’t have that information handy, (even though it’s in my action plan) I spent an hour and a half calling local bus companies to get pricing and find out who could do it. One half of them was out on a tour. The man with the credit card was out on the tour. Thus at 4:00pm when the tour group returned, it was too late for them to book the bus. It was out of my hands.
We had invited a tour operator to come for a hotel tour and dinner and they confirmed yesterday that they were going to try and make it today. I was informed that since it was my market that I was to meet with them and do the tour. Fine and I’m cool with that, it’s business. I’m waiting all day to find out what’s up with the client since they did not respond back to my email or my DOS about our inspection today. At 3pm I received an email asking how late I worked and how late the Restaurant was open. Ok. So they made it by 7:10 and I finally signed out at 9:30pm. Another long day but at least they did verbally agree to book with us in 2009. What could I do…say no to a site inspection and possible booking for a few extra hours?
I had two convention bids that had to go out today and one very detailed proposal that I knew would take some time. It took me all day to get done the bids and I half finished the proposal. I was bothered so much and the reservation calls don’t stop. I AM NOT A RESERVATIONIST. At 7pm I emailed both clients their proposals. Now I will have to waste precious sales time on Monday to finish the proposal that I couldn’t get accomplished today. Yes, I could go in tomorrow or Sunday and finish it….but, I’m already working tomorrow night at the Banquet for the military convention. They asked me to be there and I promised I would.
In the meantime, I have laundry, cleaning, cooking and tanning to do this weekend ~ only have a day and a half with no late sleeping in time. But I will probably grab the information for the proposal off my desk tomorrow night when I am at the hotel to work on it on Sunday at home. It will bother me until I complete my task.
Well, I did get to see the new lights “lite” and they looked beautiful. And the military group is enjoying themselves. I’m grateful.
Have a nice day off!
Pure Energy
