We are all guilty of it. That phone call you have to make but you choose to make at a time when you’re nearly certain the person you’re ringing won’t be there. In business, these calls are made each and every day. But I wonder about the two ways this can assuredly backfire.
If I love DC and I’m infatuated with New York, I find Las Vegas utterly irresistible. Too commonly, Las Vegas is associated with sin and sin alone, and while it’s ignorant to say sin doesn’t make a home in Las Vegas, sin can be found in just about any conference destination. Las Vegas made the […]
I’ve expounded on this topic in various ways throughout the last year of blogging but there’s really no shortage of my opinion on this matter nor are my ardent words likely to go away any time soon. I fully understand the general public’s concern over wasteful government spending particularly as it relates to conferences. Almost […]
I keep saying that, if I weren’t telling people I were moving next year, then nobody would know. The problem with that argument is that I am telling everyone I’m moving, and if by way of reading this you are only first learning this, now I’m telling everyone I’m moving. Yes, I will be a […]
What a paradox it is that the very market for whom I predominantly serve, the federal government, is also the same body who inanely does all it can to hurt the industry for which I work. Certainly it’s not the very same people, and the people who do the hurting may very well be doing […]
I’ve been working on wedding blocks at every level of occupation I’ve had since entering the hotel industry in 1998. First, as a reservations agent, diligently looking up the wedding block and asking them to spell the brides name for me just one more time. Second as an Executive Meetings manager in charge of working […]
September 11, 2001. It’s an inescapable marker of this generation. There will forever be before Nine Eleven, and after Nine Eleven. It’s such a profound marker in time that it’s hard to even remember what the world looked like before it. And we will all remember where we were on that fateful day. My story […]
It’s a precarious time of year – the last week of August. This is roughly the time each year when GSA publishes the next fiscal year’s per diem rates for cities all across the United States. The rates take affect at the beginning of the fiscal year, also my birthday, October 1st and they run […]
It may be my fault. Thirty minutes before the biggest earthquake to hit the East Coast in sixty-seven years, I remarked to a friendly hotelier that DC was a great place to live because we were relatively immune to natural disasters. Did I forget to knock on wood? Are you kidding me? Everyone has their […]
I take a lot of pride in recording my Out of Office voicemail greeting and even more care when scribing my Out of Office email response. I use my voicemail OOO sparingly, I must admit. I only do it when I know I’ll be on extensive air travel or in a conference which will dominate […]