Cookin'InTX
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HO Tour that wouldn't end!!!OMG!!! Since this was my first year to National Conference, I was told that I had to go to the HO Tour so I could try to win the Shopping Spree. I was so excited to get my spot. So the tour I signed up for was the 8am tour! Well, let's just say I will NEVER forget Conference '06.
So we get on the bus and take off. Well after about 15 minutes, my recruiter who was with me mentions to me that she thinks we may have taken a wrong turn and she thinks we're lost. I wasn't paying attention to which way the bus driver was going, because I didn't even know where HO was. So after about an hour she says, "oh yeah, we're definately lost!" So after about an hour and half, we finally make it back to McCormick Place. So they ask if anyone wants to just stay at McCormick Place or if we still want to do the tour. We of course everyone still wanted to tour. So here we go...round 2!!! Well, we get lost again!!! 55 Consultants on the bus trying to tell this poor old man which way to go...meanwhile he's trying to call the bus company, I guess to tell them we are yet again lost. So once again we fainally make it back to McCormick Place. By this point, everyone is fuming mad! We demanded they get someone from HO on the bus to speak to us.
Of course they apologized for the inconvenience and told us that if we still wanted to go to HO, we could get on another bus with a different driver who had driven with PC for years and knew exactly how to get there. Everyone asked if they would be refunded their money and we were told yes. So I was HOT!!! Talk about major let down...and we were only on Day 1! So before I got on the other bus, I asked tyhe girl from HO if they really thought that just refunding our $ was going to fix everything. I explained that I wasn't at all trying to be rude to her because I knew it was not her fault, but she had to realize that we had spent all morning on the bus, still didn't get there yet and I was really concerned that If we still chose to go on the tour we paid for, would we make it back in time for our first workshop. We were assured that we would be back on time. She also said that she would talk to HO to see what else they could do to make things right. So I said okay. We finally get there and the good news for whomever the lucky winners were, was that they were pulling FOUR winners for the shopping spree!!! And they would provide us with lunch.
So all in all, I didn't think it was worth all that hassle! The only thing that would have made it worth all the hassle would havee been if I'd won a shopping spree. But of course, no such luck.
I am going to send HO an email, since we've been home a week already and have heard nothing. I just thought, what a total let down!
So we get on the bus and take off. Well after about 15 minutes, my recruiter who was with me mentions to me that she thinks we may have taken a wrong turn and she thinks we're lost. I wasn't paying attention to which way the bus driver was going, because I didn't even know where HO was. So after about an hour she says, "oh yeah, we're definately lost!" So after about an hour and half, we finally make it back to McCormick Place. So they ask if anyone wants to just stay at McCormick Place or if we still want to do the tour. We of course everyone still wanted to tour. So here we go...round 2!!! Well, we get lost again!!! 55 Consultants on the bus trying to tell this poor old man which way to go...meanwhile he's trying to call the bus company, I guess to tell them we are yet again lost. So once again we fainally make it back to McCormick Place. By this point, everyone is fuming mad! We demanded they get someone from HO on the bus to speak to us.
Of course they apologized for the inconvenience and told us that if we still wanted to go to HO, we could get on another bus with a different driver who had driven with PC for years and knew exactly how to get there. Everyone asked if they would be refunded their money and we were told yes. So I was HOT!!! Talk about major let down...and we were only on Day 1! So before I got on the other bus, I asked tyhe girl from HO if they really thought that just refunding our $ was going to fix everything. I explained that I wasn't at all trying to be rude to her because I knew it was not her fault, but she had to realize that we had spent all morning on the bus, still didn't get there yet and I was really concerned that If we still chose to go on the tour we paid for, would we make it back in time for our first workshop. We were assured that we would be back on time. She also said that she would talk to HO to see what else they could do to make things right. So I said okay. We finally get there and the good news for whomever the lucky winners were, was that they were pulling FOUR winners for the shopping spree!!! And they would provide us with lunch.
So all in all, I didn't think it was worth all that hassle! The only thing that would have made it worth all the hassle would havee been if I'd won a shopping spree. But of course, no such luck.
I am going to send HO an email, since we've been home a week already and have heard nothing. I just thought, what a total let down!
