I’ve been doing balloons for kids here at the hotel periodically as well as for some of the workers here (what a surprise). The manager asked me to do balloons at a little festival they were having so I gave him a “taste” of what I do. Now he’s asked me to do balloons at their New Years Eve party.
My dilemma :
1) I want to do it – paid or not
2) I’d like to get paid, have the hotel room comp’ed, or at least discounted
3) I only have a limited number of balloons with me and if I go nuts doing balloons for him tomorrow night I’ll run out much sooner than I planned… and I can’t replenish my supply until I get back to my mother-load stashed in Delhi early in February -(If you’ve never seen a balloon guy on a latex withdrawal episode…. it’s not a pretty site)
So I’m looking at my options:
1) just do it and if the manager says “thank you” by comp’ing our room, discounting it, or giving us anything…. just accept it
2) meet with the manager today and state the conditions I’d be willing to trade my services for (the fear… if he says “no”, I won’t be doing any balloons)
3) drop a note off with the manager asking how he intends on paying me.
4) ________________(fill in the blank
Thanks for any input…