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Working Moms: What is in YOUR Purse!

I recently obtained an interview with a fairly prominent surgeon in our area. My part time, contract work would include updating his site and getting him up to speed with blogs, DIGGs, RSS feeds and all of that fun stuff that can really improve the ranking of your site (I’ll go into this in some future posts).

But for today, for the weekend, I wanted to post something a little more, well, fun.

As I sat in my class last night I opened up my purse in hopes of finding a pen.

Instead, I found the following:

1 yellow matchbox car

4 whole goldfish

at least 6 crumbled goldfish

a used tissue

several flower petals that my oldest daughter had found for her ‘collection’

a rock, again for her collection

a small board book complete with things that squeak, feel rough, and move

I had to laugh. Had I not cleaned out my purse right then and there, chances are I could have walked into this upcoming interview with several things in tow that probably should have been best in the trashcan, or at home with the kids.
It’s funny, isn’t it, the tightrope that a working mother has to walk.

we need to be professional and portray a professional appearance when meeting potential clients or employers.

We need to be playful and portray a fun appearance and persona when with our children.

Sometimes it is difficult-and not feasible as far as time goes-to completely step out of one role and into another.

Besides, I believe these two roles, when blended, actually make us more productive in all of our roles.

So working moms, just for fun, take some time this weekend to clean our your purse.

Now tell me, what did YOU find lurking below!

Open Two Accounts for Your Hotel Room to Ease Your Expense Reporting Hassle

So, recently, my boss and I had this conversation:

Boss:

Ken, I noticed you watched a movie in your hotel room during your stay in Chicago.

Me:

I did, I watched “Alien vs. Predator.”  It was a terrible movie, but I learned that an Alien’s jaws will penetrate a hardhat or safety helmet, that was pretty cool.

Boss:

Movies aren’t expensible.

Me:

I’m sorry, but according to the company policy, they are expensible.

Boss:

Well, my policy is to increase the bottom line and as long as you work for me, you won’t expense movies.

Me:

I hope an Alien eats your kid.

Boss:

What was that?

Me:

I said, “I’m off to copy and resubmit!”

Boss:

Good, good.  I don’t care if you do bring in $50,000 worth of revenue every week; $13.99 is too much to waste on a movie.  You should sit in your hotel room and eat rice cakes every night.  I remember once when I was a green sub-adult like you, I could go a week on the company dime without food or water for a month  or more…

*sigh* Traveling sure isn’t what it used to be.  The “generous expense account” is a thing of the past.  If you work for a company like mine, separating and sorting your incidental hotel expenses away from the room rate and taxes is a tricky and unnecessarily ridiculous thing to have to do.  It has gotten to the point where I would rather avoid a hotel restaurant completely than charge a meal to my room. 

Here’s a trick that will help.  When you check in, give the desk clerk two credit cards.  Heck, give her three!  You can open as many accounts with the hotel as you like.  Then tell the desk clerk, “Please charge movies and souvenirs to this card, room rate and taxes to this card, and meals, laundry, and business center expenses to this one.”  When you check out, you’ll have three different folios, and they’ll each be itemized for your own personal use or for expensing.  Bang, no more stupid spreadsheets to complete on the plane trip home!

This little tip is not without risk however, you must be diligent with the desk clerk.  For example, the clerk at the J.W. Marriott in San Francisco this last week was quick to open an incidental account for me, but at checkout time she lost the folio with the room rates on it.  I was presented with a bill for $14.33 for the entire week… I talked to the desk manager and he was able to find the other folio for $1,498.  When I got home, I logged in and completed my expense report (quickly, since I didn’t have to separate and itemize the bill) and that was that.  Or so I thought…

I checked the balance of my Marriott Rewards account today and learned that they only credited my account with the points from the movie!  “What?” I thought, “I stayed a week in a frickin J.W. Marriott and I only got 146 points??”  So, I called Mr. Michael Wlodkowski, the site manager for that hotel (He must hate me.  This is the same hotel with the crazed Japanese turn down service lady that sneaks into your room after 10pm to wake you up for some chocolate… we’ve spoken before). 

“Hi Mike, it’s me, Ken Walker.” 

(Audible sigh) 

“Yea your desk clerk only submitted 146 points for my stay last week.  Any idea what happened?”

“I’ll look into it.”  (Another sigh)

It turns out, she opened the accounts for me, but she failed to apply my Marriott Rewards credentials to the new account!  Make sure you ask the desk clerk, “Oh, can you make sure my Hilton/Hyatt/Marriott points account number is on this new account as well?”

OH, and you should avoid the Alien/Predator movie.  It was truly awful.  

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Jewellery store – insure your valuable items

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March 23, 2017 Frank Bullock Business Tips
 

Having a jewellery store is a huge responsibility, because you know that you cannot afford to lose any one of the items you have listed on sale. If other stores do not mind if they are not able to find a pair of jeans or other items, you will get yourself in great financial problems if one of your jewelleries disappear. So, you should do your best to protect and insure them. Sometimes even the best security program fails, and burglars are able somehow to enter the store. High value jewellery is an example of items that benefit tremendously if you choose to insure them. Not only that the items are valuable, but the majority of them are portable and small and they are easy to steal or lose. So whether you have diamonds jewelleries, gold necklaces or other expensive items, you should make sure that you talk with an insurer from the moment you intend to purchase the items, because you have to be sure that they are safe and secure when they get to your store.

You can extend the insurance coverage for the valuable items

You have expensive items in your store, so it is advisable to opt for a special coverage for them, because the regular one is not sufficient. In case you have a regular one, then you should talk with the provider and ask them to extend the limit that you receive now. The result is that your items will be insured against a bigger loss, and you will receive money from the insurance, if they are lost. The exact sum to which you will be able to extend the coverage is up to the company you collaborate with.

You can opt for scheduled items insurance

In case you do not consider important to insure all the items from your store, then you have the possibility to make a list with the most valuable ones and get insurance policy for them. Scheduling insurance comes with many benefits, because it increases the money limit coverage and it protects you against virtually any type of loss. You should check with the insurance company, because there are some specific exclusions, and it is better to know them from the beginning.

Why do you need jewellery insurance?

Working in this domain should have brought you some knowledge on the fact that jewellery is a prime target for theft and it is easy to lose a valuable item like this. It is better to protect both you and your business from any negative financial impact, because losing the items from the store will affect your bank account.

Talk with an expert

In order for the valuable items to be properly insured, you should make sure that the insurer determines the right sum for them. You should know that the company will definitely ask you to prove the value of the jewellery items, and even if they do not ask for it at the beginning, in case of theft or loss they will require it.

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