I Thought It Was a Bad Idea Then Too,

Not sure if it's all business owners, or just these ones that I work for.  It seems to take them trial after trial to finally come up with a solution system of doing things that works the best.  Sometimes, the trial methods are so ridiculously terrible that I hesitate to do it.  Of course these are the ones that they are the most stubborn about, and it's only after I do them a couple of times that they realize that it was not such a good idea.
"You shouldn't do it that way," the headmaster says once a contract technique, or a system turns out more problematic than useful.
"This is how you told me to do it," I say with a confused, but respectful, look on my face (and I thought it was a bad idea then too) I think in my head.

Often times I am left with the blame and the task of fixing an embarrassing situation that could have been avoided if the Master would take my suggestion.  I may not have as much experience in the Martial Arts School world, but I do have a Business Degree, that is applicable to all business situations.  I am absolutely sure that if you advertise that something is FREE, that something better be FREE unless there is a little asterisk somewhere saying that it's Free (with the purchase of something else).

"You didn't tell me I have to buy those in order to get this free," an annoyed parent says to me as I am finishing a contract deal, in the middle of which the co-master says they can't get the item advertised as free unless they spend $25 on something else.
      (it takes much sales skill and mediation to get out of this storm that would have been smooth sailing till now that they change the deal right in the middle of it).  I know later that the master will be unsatisfied with the way it was handled but the most important thing, I think, is that the money comes in and we enroll a student right????  

Of course, If it were up to me I would make the deal be, that you get the "Free Item" for the amount of the "$25 purchase required item" marked down from the original price of the "free item" in question.

"No, don't do it that way, that is not the way it is", the master says when I suggested the above proposal so as not to confuse and make parents, who don't want to pay anything anyway, angry about hidden charges.
"Yes, sir, I see.", I respond out loud, (even though I will be doing it my way anyway.  Because, I know, later the master will "think of it himself" later on and tell me I shouldn't be doing it the previous way that was his idea too)
Once he says, we shouldn't do it the way he said to before, I will respond with the usual, "Yes sir, what a good idea."
"How come you did it the other way?" he will ask.
And as always I'll respond"You told me to do it that way, remember?"  (I thought it was a bad idea then too.)