Of Pizza Deliveries and Elevators
It is not so much as the incovenience of taking the hotel's elevators which takes about 48 years, and roots start to grow on where one stands to wait. Or the lousy food served after lining up for a couple of minutes plus an hour. Or the absence of coffee to perk us up in the siesta hours. In fact, water would have been a nice touch but there was none. It is the irresponsibility of this hotel's management to see to their client's minimum requirements.
It's the little things that show most of who we are, and the same is true, I beg to pose, with other entities, like a hotel, for example. Perhaps if the hotel management looked beyond the six-figure gross income on booking our conference, it would not be such a disappointment. Did they forget, maybe, that the three elevators (where only two are serviceable) would not be able to promptly 'lift' (pun intended) their guests from one floor to the other given that they are 300 warm bodies? That is excluding their regular guests. Or did they unintentionally ask whether the conference guests are from town or will they be travelling by plane and land for hours such that they needed their assigned rooms the soonest possible time to freshen up and rest a while? And do they not feel hunger pangs themselves at noon such that they would have guessed that their conference guests would also feel the same?
I was in line by the elevator last night, patiently waiting, and two not-so-elderly man and woman were behind me. The woman just arrived from California, she still had her luggage in tow, and smiled at me saying, 'I come home every six months just to rest from work in the states, and I arrive to 'this'.' The man had Chow King Halo-Halo as take-out and offered it to me as the delicacy is starting to melt, and he said it was pointless to bring it up all the way to his room now. The elevators were working double time but still could not cope with the volume of guests. Another guy who seems to be a regular guest of the hotel (the security guard was carrying his stuff for him, laundry that he may have picked up somewhere; I saw a pile of 'baduy' checkered polo shirts but that's another story altogether), was walking impatiently by our side, not having the decency to fall in line. He would poke at the elevator buttons repeatedly, as if that would make the elevators panic and slide down to scoop him up. Well, there has to be one annoying guy at any given time in our lives, right?
These points raised are much like about the conference itself; we are discussing about funds, budget, planning how to spend it properly, things like those. We were called to the conference because we are the decision-makers, and our top management would want us to be out of any trouble when we spend. We are reminded to follow rules, and exercise good judgement, prudence and wisdom. And of our responsibility. To be handed millions to 'disburse' to deliver the services our farmers need, is a great responsibility. We may be laughing our way through it with delivered pizzas in our mouths, but this exercise is a commitment to serve, anything less is unacceptable to the conscience. I think I need to force the hotel management to read this blog. To remind them, too, that accepting an account of this magnitude? It entails commitment. Anything less must be unacceptable to the conscience.
It's the little things that show most of who we are, and the same is true, I beg to pose, with other entities, like a hotel, for example. Perhaps if the hotel management looked beyond the six-figure gross income on booking our conference, it would not be such a disappointment. Did they forget, maybe, that the three elevators (where only two are serviceable) would not be able to promptly 'lift' (pun intended) their guests from one floor to the other given that they are 300 warm bodies? That is excluding their regular guests. Or did they unintentionally ask whether the conference guests are from town or will they be travelling by plane and land for hours such that they needed their assigned rooms the soonest possible time to freshen up and rest a while? And do they not feel hunger pangs themselves at noon such that they would have guessed that their conference guests would also feel the same?
I was in line by the elevator last night, patiently waiting, and two not-so-elderly man and woman were behind me. The woman just arrived from California, she still had her luggage in tow, and smiled at me saying, 'I come home every six months just to rest from work in the states, and I arrive to 'this'.' The man had Chow King Halo-Halo as take-out and offered it to me as the delicacy is starting to melt, and he said it was pointless to bring it up all the way to his room now. The elevators were working double time but still could not cope with the volume of guests. Another guy who seems to be a regular guest of the hotel (the security guard was carrying his stuff for him, laundry that he may have picked up somewhere; I saw a pile of 'baduy' checkered polo shirts but that's another story altogether), was walking impatiently by our side, not having the decency to fall in line. He would poke at the elevator buttons repeatedly, as if that would make the elevators panic and slide down to scoop him up. Well, there has to be one annoying guy at any given time in our lives, right?
These points raised are much like about the conference itself; we are discussing about funds, budget, planning how to spend it properly, things like those. We were called to the conference because we are the decision-makers, and our top management would want us to be out of any trouble when we spend. We are reminded to follow rules, and exercise good judgement, prudence and wisdom. And of our responsibility. To be handed millions to 'disburse' to deliver the services our farmers need, is a great responsibility. We may be laughing our way through it with delivered pizzas in our mouths, but this exercise is a commitment to serve, anything less is unacceptable to the conscience. I think I need to force the hotel management to read this blog. To remind them, too, that accepting an account of this magnitude? It entails commitment. Anything less must be unacceptable to the conscience.
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