Ambot and I were most likely the first IBOs to check into our hotel for the WWDB Spring Leadership function, which took place the following day. We'd left home early in the morning, spent the entire day driving, and arrived late in the evening. After unpacking our belongings in the room, we went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a book I'd been wanting to read before heading out to dinner. By the time we returned to the hotel, the IBOs had begun to arrive.
The two employees working at the hotel's front desk appeared to be stressed. And it's not surprising. They were dealing with a henchman for the Platinum corporation. No shows had been reported, and the problem was that the henchman had been messing with people's hotel reservations on the WWDB blocked rooms, just as he'd attempted to do with Ambot earlier in the day. The problem was that he was now on the hook because he'd used his own credit card to guarantee the rooms while he was so preoccupied with reassigning everyone, and now he was holding empty hotel rooms with no live bodies to put in them, and he was arguing with the staff about why his credit card was being charged for the empty rooms. He arrived too late to cancel the rooms, and he was charged a one-night fee for each of them when he should have done so.
To give the henchman credit where credit is due - or a lack thereof - I doubt the jerk came up with the idea of fooling around with hotel rooms on his own initiative. Obviously, the only reason he would have done this was on the direct orders of Platinum, who must have determined that they needed to make room for the dozens of visitors and prospects who were expected to make the trip to see what this amazing Amway business opportunity was all about. Only problem was that all of the prospects/newbies failed to show up, leaving the henchman with a hotel bill for a large number of empty rooms, which he was attempting to dispute with the staff, who were charging him $100 x number of rooms in accordance with the hotel's cancellation policy. If you plan to come late, say after 6 p.m., most hotels want you to use a credit card to guarantee your room, which is standard practise. As a result, the hotel will hold your room for the duration of the night rather than selling it to someone who walks in off the street. The amount of one night's stay will be charged to your credit card if you do not arrive or do not cancel your reservation before the cutoff time.
What happened next is unclear, but I hope the hotel stood by their decision and did not reverse the credit card payment. That would be appropriate for the henchman. I mean, it's a complete and utter blunder. It's only fair that the bastard gets what he deserves for listening to the dumb ass Platinum!
Oh, and it's worth noting that the sack of shit Platinum was staying at a different hotel, which he considered to be a superior establishment. Not the rest of us lowly bastards, but the only IBOs who were "allowed" to stay at that other hotel were individuals who were making it big in the business. He and his wife were sharing a room with at least one other couple that we were aware of, if not more, which was amusing. If there's a tinge of romance in the air, I suppose that destroys the mood! It may even be said that orgy is in the air, which heightens the mood! I swear, if I'd known he was staying at the other hotel, I would have rented a room there solely for the purpose of piling on the jerk!
And to add insult to injury, another hotel stay has been charged to the henchman's credit card!
Yeah! Awful Amway WWDB Spring Leadership!!!!!
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