Stephanie S
- 202
The show last night was my worst ever! It was horrible from beginning to end!
I had problems with this host from the beginning - to make matters worse she was a former PartyLite consultant, so you'd think that she would know the basics to having a great show! I host coached….and host coached….and host coached….encouraging her to invite more people than her place would hold. She seemed comfortable with the commitments that she had gotten from people, and I had dong pretty much all I could.
When I arrived last night she was already half in the bag. She started telling me how disappointed she was because so most of the people had called to cancel last minute! (I was not surprised about this, and had cautioned her about it during the host coaching). So, because she was so upset she had started to drink right when she got home from work!
I couldn't help being a little bummed, knowing that 3 of the people (including the host) had been at my last show (one of the guests was the former host) and weren't going to book a show of their own from this one. There was one other girl who came (whom the host hadn't seen for 1 year), and they grabbed a random neighbour from the hall - who just came to eat (he was a guy and didn't seem into the whole hanging out with chicks chatting thing).
So I set up a small display and carried on anyways! Well they chatted through the entire demo! Chatted about each of their condo's, chatted about what they had done this summer, they acted as though the only reason I was there was to make them something to eat!!
I was making this decadent chocolate dessert pizza - so there was a giant cookie that I had to bake. I had pre-heated the oven, put my cookie in when the oven was ready, and set the timer to bake. When I pulled the cookie out it wasn't even close to done. The host had forgotten to tell me that the oven is not as hot as others, and it takes things longer to cook! At this point I had already finished preparing all of the toppings for the pizza, so I had to think of something to do…. Remember, through this whole time people were chatting and not even paying attention to a single thing that I was saying. I chatted about some of the other products (to myself) and prayed that the cookie would be done soon. People kept looking at me and their thoughts were obvious "what's taking so long"….The host must have felt a bit of remorse because she explained the oven, and that she hadn't told me that it would take longer. Then proceeded to talk about their own kitchen appliances! Oh, and did I forget to mention that when I opened the oven door smoke billowed out because her oven was so dirty - then people panicked about the smoke detectors going off. Yelling to each other to open the windows, fan the detector, looking at me as though I was going to burn the place down, etc. (it didn't even end up going off).
When the cookie was finished I put it all together, dressed it with the toppings, cut it up and asked the hosts mother if she could help serve it while I cleaned everything up. I just wanted to get out of there. I came out with 2 orders, and the hosts show doesn't even qualify as a show yet (it didn't meet the min $200. in guest sales). I let her know the amount that she needed, and that I would call her on Sunday. I had to interrupt her from chatting with one of her friends to even tell her this. The expression on her face was that I was interrupting her (which I was because she was being somewhat disrespectful!)
So that's it! My terrible show. I'm praying that I don't have another like that any time soon *knock on wood*
I had problems with this host from the beginning - to make matters worse she was a former PartyLite consultant, so you'd think that she would know the basics to having a great show! I host coached….and host coached….and host coached….encouraging her to invite more people than her place would hold. She seemed comfortable with the commitments that she had gotten from people, and I had dong pretty much all I could.
When I arrived last night she was already half in the bag. She started telling me how disappointed she was because so most of the people had called to cancel last minute! (I was not surprised about this, and had cautioned her about it during the host coaching). So, because she was so upset she had started to drink right when she got home from work!
I couldn't help being a little bummed, knowing that 3 of the people (including the host) had been at my last show (one of the guests was the former host) and weren't going to book a show of their own from this one. There was one other girl who came (whom the host hadn't seen for 1 year), and they grabbed a random neighbour from the hall - who just came to eat (he was a guy and didn't seem into the whole hanging out with chicks chatting thing).
So I set up a small display and carried on anyways! Well they chatted through the entire demo! Chatted about each of their condo's, chatted about what they had done this summer, they acted as though the only reason I was there was to make them something to eat!!
I was making this decadent chocolate dessert pizza - so there was a giant cookie that I had to bake. I had pre-heated the oven, put my cookie in when the oven was ready, and set the timer to bake. When I pulled the cookie out it wasn't even close to done. The host had forgotten to tell me that the oven is not as hot as others, and it takes things longer to cook! At this point I had already finished preparing all of the toppings for the pizza, so I had to think of something to do…. Remember, through this whole time people were chatting and not even paying attention to a single thing that I was saying. I chatted about some of the other products (to myself) and prayed that the cookie would be done soon. People kept looking at me and their thoughts were obvious "what's taking so long"….The host must have felt a bit of remorse because she explained the oven, and that she hadn't told me that it would take longer. Then proceeded to talk about their own kitchen appliances! Oh, and did I forget to mention that when I opened the oven door smoke billowed out because her oven was so dirty - then people panicked about the smoke detectors going off. Yelling to each other to open the windows, fan the detector, looking at me as though I was going to burn the place down, etc. (it didn't even end up going off).
When the cookie was finished I put it all together, dressed it with the toppings, cut it up and asked the hosts mother if she could help serve it while I cleaned everything up. I just wanted to get out of there. I came out with 2 orders, and the hosts show doesn't even qualify as a show yet (it didn't meet the min $200. in guest sales). I let her know the amount that she needed, and that I would call her on Sunday. I had to interrupt her from chatting with one of her friends to even tell her this. The expression on her face was that I was interrupting her (which I was because she was being somewhat disrespectful!)
So that's it! My terrible show. I'm praying that I don't have another like that any time soon *knock on wood*
so angry because I would never had done this to her or any other consultant for that matter. 
