Yup. Today has only made me more motivated to nail that interview.

As a matter of fact I did say that.

Maybe they have small snowblowers that can't hack it if the snow gets too deep?

Mine's pretty good sized, and it can chew through 12-16" of light/fluffy stuff no problem, but when we get the wet, heavy snow, I like to catch it every 6" or so. The job goes faster because I can throw the snow further from the drive.

Day one of SFO DO went well. Sorry the other guys wont make it out for beers and stuff later today. I may head out to the airport to meet up with fellow FTer passing through. Now to go upstairs and pack and move hotels!!

It sounds like you're dealing with a real l:rolleyes:ser.

See what a good boss he is - he has your best interest at heart :D

(not that you needed the extra motivation to ace the interview...)

Congrats, Sysco right ? :D

drinking st arnold's......root beer :)

Yup. Pretty much.

I need no extra motivation, you are correct. On that note, without giving too much away, WWTBD:

The property I am interviewing at is a Four Diamond, and they said in the interview that they want the fifth one. When I asked what they were lacking in to achieve said Diamond, they came right out and said that where I am applying to is the weak point. Further, they are looking for "a personality" (their words) that can represent the property. If I have an idea to improve the aforementioned weak link, and I saw no evidence of this idea in implementation the last time I was there, how do I play that to my advantage in the interview? I've been in the position of having ideas to help a hotel before, but never to this magnitude.

Great new sig line, windwalker. ^

(I guess this is me feigning interest in others.)

Good news on the daughter's wedding spending spree.
Friend of my sis, is a professional photographer, said since it's sis's neice he'd do the gig for FREE !!!!!!

CM-feign on

How all da snowbunnies doin?

"Snowmageddon"

Really ????????????

I thought the same thing.:rolleyes: In a couple of days it'll all melt and life is back to normal.

Just a dusting of sn:rolleyes:w here...

They have single stage, 2 cycle throwers. I actually hate my blower. I hate the handles and now that I have a shed, I wish I had a larger one. The discharge shoot always clogs. I do have to get it in the garage in the next couple of days as the belts need to be adjusted again. It's not throwing like it should.

There's a nice British work that could be used too with similar spelling that may work better and that's t:rolleyes:sser

Without knowing the details, it's hard to give specific advice, but to help you brainstorm, here's some quick ideas:

1) Write the presentation/memo from front house manager/director announcing your idea to the staff (describing the idea and perhaps giving a broad timeline for implementation and a sentence or two on what he expects from various areas for the implementation). Write it so that this presentation/memo is ready to go as you share it in your interview (or if not possible in a follow-up e-mail) so that the momentum is already there.

2) Write a proposal describing your idea so the people interviewing you see that you have the skills to be the leader of the change for your idea and see the way things should be very clearly. Don't give everything away so they bring you on to implement, but make it very clear that you know what you're doing and can implement it (or make a significant change) within the timeline needed for the fifth diamond review

3) Announcement of the impact the change had (could be many formats from letter of chain management - assuming this is a chain - to hotel management congratulating them on huge impact on guest satisfaction scores from the change and asking for info to expand it to rest of chain to newspaper article discussing it). BTW, I realize his path sounds like it may be most up your alley given what you've shared of your statement of objectives for grad school.

Whatever you chose, tie it back to what you are bringing (i.e., why you are uniquely suited to implement this - you've done it before, you've led other changes like this)

For the personality piece, could you pull together a compelling visual (e.g., a page with a collage, a box with trinkets) with pictures/e-mails/thank you notes from guests/sketches of ideas/etc. that will quickly help them go a-ha, this would be awesome to have here at our property in x months and clearly this person has a better of the vision than we do so he's got to lead the change!

Hope this helps!