Long Week
This past week was VERY long. I’ve been working in my new position for a couple of weeks now and was starting to get a handle on all the small steps it takes to take, for example, a menu from conception to the book you hold in your hand when you go to the restaurant. Or a list of items made into a door hanger in a casino hotel. I got to sit in on my first brainstorming session a couple of weeks ago for an entire year’s worth of beverage promotions. New stuff! Fun stuff! Creative stuff!
Now I know it won’t always be fun or creative. I will have to do billing/accounting things. Drumming up funds for a promotion here, a menu printing there. But right now it is all new, shiny, glossy… even the boring accounting part.
So imagine my disappointment when this past week I was stuck doing the same old stuff I was doing before the promotion. I know it was/is (for I’m still not done) great experience working on a large trip (this is for a meeting, but future ones may be educational or incentive). But none of it is new to me. I finally decided that it might behoove me to ask about the behind the scenes part of the meeting. How the accounting works, do we request funding for them, all of the financial matters are really foggy to me.
I know food and beverage in the meeting rooms and for main meals needs to be worked out. However, having been an admin for the Director of Catering for Gaylord Palms as well as admin for Catering and Convention Services for Wyndham Orlando Resort gave me more exprience than I could hope to get where I am now, so that won’t be anything I’ll need.
This project will be over in about a week, though. So I’ll just have to get through it and get back to the shiny, new stuff afterwards.
