Work/Life Balance - As a salaried Director, with hourly managers reporting to you, you are often compensating for understaffing, the fact that managers cannot work more than 45 hours and that you also carry a significant quota. As the portfolio of hotels does not include many properties with significant space, there are no opportunities for growth for people with large conference hotel experience. The claim that if you take care of the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves - or "small incremental differences make large impacts over time" is preached, but not practiced.