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I was traveling and stopped by a nice hotel for the night. The place was wonderful and had everything that I could have asked for in it! The hotel was kept up nicely and there didn’t seem to be any issues at all. When I went in, I was greeted by a woman and she helped me get a room and settle in for the night. After I got to my room, I noticed I had no soap so I went back down made small talk with the clerk. Turns out, she was one of the hospitality accountants!

I didn’t really know what that meant, so I asked her. She told me that she basically was in charge of all the financial things of the hotel. It sounded really interesting and I really never thought of anyone doing boring paperwork like that at a hotel. (more…)

The people who work for me are very competitive. That is why I think long and hard each year on different ways they can challenge not only each other but themselves too. I always hold an awards banquet every year. Though everyone is invited, only a handful are able to be rewarded for their actions throughout the year. This year, I wanted to switch things up differently, and I used an entertainment hire company to help me with that. There are two people who are particularly competitive with one another.

While it is always a friendly competition between the two, it is also a very hard one. They always support one another, but they each know that they have to work at their hardest, and then some, to remain at the top. (more…)

Last year was a dark year for the company where I work. Many of the employees, including myself, were all afraid that we would lose our jobs in a series of mass layoffs. The head of the company ensured that no one would lose their jobs, and that he would rather take a cut in pay before having one of his employees leave. He gave my department the task of using business intelligence to turn the company around. We came up with the plan to use a data consultant company to turn the fortunes of the company around. It was probably the only chance we had to fix the company before it went belly up.

The owner of the company was willing to go along with the plan to save it. He viewed the company and the employees as if they were his own children, and wanted to do anything to keep them alive. (more…)

I am really picky about the purses and bags that I carry. I have so much in it, so I want to make sure that it is a quality purse that has ample room in it. Because of this, I always buy my purses in person at a store. That changed when I saw a new leather handbag that my cousin had bought online. I really liked it as soon as I saw it, and she showed me the inside of it too. It had just the right amount of pockets and zippered sections inside, so I asked her where she had bought it.

I had every intention of going to the same store and buying one for myself. (more…)

I own a business that gets a lot of customers, and I wanted to take a vacation, so I had one of my employees take over for a while. I still wanted to keep an eye on the business to see if everything was running smoothly, so I had a Hikvision IP CCTV installed. Some people would say that someone can’t really have a vacation if they’re still worried about what is going on at their place of business, but I feel more comfortable knowing that everything is going well at the place that I’ve worked so hard to build and maintain for years.

While I was at the airport and on the plane, I couldn’t help but look at the footage from the CCTV. The person who was sitting next to me thought I was watching some kind of hidden camera television show. Nothing was really happening in the footage that was out of the ordinary. All of the employees were behaving as if I had never left. I consider this a bit of a test, because if I am sure that things will go well while I’m not there, then I’ll have no problem taking more vacations or doing other things while the regular staff handles everything.

With my mind at ease, I watched the CCTV footage less and less as time went on in my vacation. I was able to enjoy myself more because I wasn’t thinking about it too much. When I got back from my vacation, everything looked the same. I think I might start another branch for the business and let my staff continue to manage the old one. I’m sure they’ll have no problems. I’ll need to find some people to help me run the new branch as good as the staff at the old one.

When I graduated from university, there was a program for job placement. It did not take me long to get a job in the field that I had studied for. I thought that I was going to work my way up that so called ladder, but after three years I was still at an entry level position with no hope of getting promoted anytime soon. I was not happy with that, and that is why I decided to look at a financial services recruitment agency in Bristol to see if there were any jobs in my field where I would be able to not be so stagnant.

I decided to go this route because two of my friends had used the same recruitment agency and were able to find really nice jobs with it. In fact, one told me that the job he now has did not even advertise, they just went through the recruitment agency. So, that is nice knowing that not everyone sees the jobs that are posted there, making my chances of getting a great job the same way a bit better for me. (more…)

I have friends who I call when I need to feel better because I know that they are usually happy and always willing to listen to me tell them why I am sad or what is bothering me. I had to go and talk to a few people about something that I wanted to do, and I have friends that will help me figure out how to get my goal done right. I also have friends to go out, so when I saw Treasure at Tampines in Singapore was actually going to have a new launch, I knew that it was something that I wanted to check out but I did not want to go alone, so I called my going out friends instead. (more…)

My son has been interested in horse races since he was a young body. As he became older, he wanted to participate in National Hunt racing, and I agreed to let him. I figure that everyone should have a chance to go after their dreams. He put in a lot of work to learn how to ride a horse and became great at it. When he and the horse rode, it was like they became one and could move at lightning speed. He was ready to participate in his first hurdle race and I was ready with my camera to record it.

Before the race, he was a little nervous, but I assured him that he would be fine. This was the first time I had ever seen him nervous about racing, but it’s understandable since it was his first race. (more…)

At work, my boss has a contest that would reward the hardest worker with a trip of their choice. I was in need of a good vacation, so I did my best to put in as much work as possible. The hours were long and agonizing, but it all paid off, because I was able to win the contest. I put a lot of thought into where I wanted to go for my trip. First I thought about going to a country in Asia, but then I remembered the ads that I saw about the walking holidays in Spain, and chose that. My boss had been to Spain in the past, and told me that I would have a great time.

Some of my coworkers were a little mad that they didn’t win the trip, but that’s just the way it was. (more…)

I have always been an electronics hobbyist. I don’t push it on other people, but sometimes there will be someone that comes along that shows an interest. I have always been interested in imaging sensors, and I was very pleased when CCTV kits became affordable. I remember the early surveillance cameras that were big and very bulky that recorded grainy black and white footage. Sometimes we still see still images on the news of a suspect wanted for robbery or burglary that is of such poor resolution that no one could make a positive ID.

Nowadays you can get CCTV kits for home use that are affordable and give such a clear picture that you could identify someone trying to conceal his or her identity. (more…)