Aloha Daze

How many people can finish that line? How many people know what character kept saying that line?

Wimpy. Right out of the Popeye comic. (J. Wellington Wimpy, according to www.popeye-n-olive.com.)

Wimpy was expecting a free meal because… well… no reason at all. Just because he’d promise to “gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” A lazy, cowardly, selfish moocher.

Welcome to the day of tomorrow.

On our continuing quest to sign up new hotels to Aloha brand, cold calls continue to go out to independent hotels across the mainland. Currently, that means Alaska.

But a hotel called us from one of the promotional letters we sent out. A hotel from the state of Washington. The owner was interested, wanted more information, and a quote for fees. They, in turn, would talk to the other owner [a husband and wife team, from what I could tell], and get back to us.

And so they did get back to us. Seems that they love our service, but would prefer not to pay us. Instead, we bring in the guests, and they’ll pay us later based on our work.

What?

I’m a little confused. You hire a person to do a job, you may want them to do well. You may insist that their future at the company requires them to do well. But you can’t hire a person, and then if they don’t work out as well as you’d liked, you remove them, and never pay them. There are laws against that sort of thing.

So anyway…. at the time we said “we’ll think about it and get back to you.” Having thought about it, we’ll get back to them, but it’ll simply be “do you want to sign or not” question. We cannot just change the nature of the business because someone wants us too.

Sorry Wimpy. No free hamburgers today. In fact.. it is Tuesday.

RLR