New & Improved!

Ever notice when a product or service has a blip on their screen they "change" something about it? The hotel is mid blip. Changes are happening at the speed of light. New policies. New employees. Old employees with new titles or responsibilities. New accountant. New bar plans & construction. New atrium. ATRIUM??? WTF??? They're RED NECKS, for gawd's sake! What do they know from plant room to atrium? I knew.
When asked to "find somebody to fill the porch up with plants and maintain them.", I replied
"oh, you want to have an atrium? That will be beautiful!". I got a blank look and then..." yeah, one of them".... this is the OWNER.
And I did. Several somebodies, in fact. One I really liked, another was a patron, one downright snooty-your-beneath-contempt type and a couple tree huggers. All designers. I shoulda known....And to think, I got the job because the BIG GUY was scared a man might look at his butt. No gay men responded to any of my plant inquiries, except my sorta son, but he doesn't count, not this time anyway...
After several proposals were submitted to me, I asked Mr Cheese if perhaps we ought to go and buy our own plants at home depot and try to maintain them as best we can, in house. He said he didn't want to deal with maintenance.
guess what?
We're going to the plant nursery next week to buy our new plants.
I now have a third title at the hotel. Interior scape designer.
Guess that makes me New and Improved?