conference resort = sleeping rooms included (plus catering)
conference center = clients pay a hotel for sleeping rooms and the conference center is not near the sleeping rooms... which means time and travel between center and sleeping rooms and outside catering.
so that means conference resort = more convenient and most of the time less expensive b/c food, beverages, etc are included in the package...
its like the wal-mart supercenter for meeting planners/travel planners, etc. That's who I work for, the "WAL-MART Supercenter for Conferences"
What I'm upset about is these people WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND that if they call off meetings/conferences -IF THEY NEARLY ELIMINATE- the business I work in that it would mean shutting down/crippling other businesses as well. And be another crippling strike to our economy.
I don't normally get all heated up. But people just don't understand that airlines make money, other transportation makes money, local restaurants and other businesses benefit. THE FUCKING COUNTY AND CITY BENEFITS BECAUSE OF THE TAX REVENUE THAT IS GENERATED. those people pay taxes in our cities and counties which gives more money to our schools and roads. They play our Lottos because there is no lottos in thier state so when they are here, they play ours so that gives our state more money!
Do you know who will lose work at my resort?
People who have jobs like setting up the conference room to specifications, the housekeepers that clean the rooms, the front desk personel who checks them in, the cooks in our restaurants, THE OLD MEN WHO WORK DURING THE SUMMER ON OUR GOLF COURSE TO HELP SUPPLEMENT THIER RETIREMENT INCOME, The young men who want an outside job during the summer, the souse chef interning, the old lady who likes kids and works for our child activities program to supplement her income, the assistant who wants to be a teacher and uses our program for extra experience before she goes into the classroom while in college, the massage therapists, the bartenders and pinsetters (we have a bowling alley), i could go on forever.......
Guess who else will lose work?
I can guarantee that over half of the office personnel would be laid off/fired. There wouldn't be a need for so many planners with no companies having meetings so they would go first. And with no meetings there would be no need for 2 of us AR girls so one of us would have to go and there might not be enough work for even 1 us so the other's hours would be cut to parttime instead of fulltime. MAYBE if the person left is lucky they would get to stay fulltime. And all the other people who work in the office, i'm sure they could and would find jobs to consolidate because there would be less to do. So for every 2 jobs consolidated you'd have 1 person laid off.
And how many conference centers/resorts are there?? That's alot of people that would lose thier jobs. That's alot of schools that would lose money. CPS is broke as it is. DO they really need less money??
C'mon stop being idiots! Stop calling for my industry to go up in flames. For it to burn into a pile of rubble that no one would be able to re-build.
We've already lost the Auto Industry, they stopped having thier sales conferences to kick off the new quarters and year ends, etc. That was a huge slice of our revenue.
Not to mention the housing/land market the way it is. We've lost the developers as well. No more developers conventions with builders, etc. That was a nice slice of revenue too. We use to be so busy the 2 of us AR girls we had someone filing for us so we could concentrate on billing and making our clients happy. Now we struggle to find something to do!!
Give us back our developers. Give us back the auto industry and for the love of a healthy economy, don't take away the banks and other investment type firms...
Please do elax a bit.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats regularly shoot their mouths off to attack the productive segment of society (business) that supports all the parasitical segments (which the Democratic Party represents most closely). Democrats often legislate without understanding the damage they will do. But they rarely legislate against the interests of unions - and the travel and hotel businesses do have union workers. So I expect this to be just one in the long line of dumb statments that ultimately go no where.
well, in this case i wasn't really meaning the legislators themselves but thier "constintuants" the "american people" who are calling for the blood of the banking and investment firms, etc.
ReplyDeletethe... sigh... dare i say it... uneducated morans of society.
i mean, clearly someone who has a brain would think that more spending (any kind of spending) would be a good thing, right? the $50,000 spent to rent out the restaurant went to pay wages, those wages went out to pay bills and buy for the family... its a cycle. its a GOOD cycle.
its not waste, its income in little people's pockets like mine... and I hate to say, the "morons who don't get it" as well.
Granted, I don't care for the CEOs and high executives of these companies getting those huge bonuses (give more $$ to the workers, do you really need that large of a bonus? or here's an idea: have more conferences and travel outings!! even better: give to nonprofit agencies to help the AMERICAN homeless and abused peoples) but I do encourage them to spend thier money so that hard workers can pay thier bills!
please note that i do sometimes go into rants and name calling is just one way to get frustration out of my system. in no way to i really think that americans are uneducated and/or morons...
ReplyDeletei am just a very frustrated person who is scared.
I rant all the fucking time, especially about politics. So as far as I'm concerned, get as heated as you need to! as you know, the blame being placed on BIG BAD WALL STREET and EVIL BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES etc, totally affects Dub's job. It trickles down to the older lady with a 401k who suddenly has no savings left, the business owner who can't make payroll, and the laid off factory worker who is now afraid to invest his money because he hears nothing but negativity on the news. MANY people really AREN'T educated about how the economic cycle works, and where tax money goes, so I applaud you for saying so. That doesn't mean everyone is ignorant, but many are.
ReplyDeleteI am also a very frustrated person who is scared. After Obama's new budget was announced last week, my husband was overwhelmed with phone calls from extremely panicked clients. Fear spreads like a disease, and we are in some really terrifying and unfamiliar territory. No one really KNOWS if the Obama plan is going to work. Ask VP Biden or the Prez himself...
OK, I'm ranting now. Too much caffiene and news on an early sunday morning:)
Actually, anyone who has studied history and economics a bit knows full well that the ObaMessiah's lan is doomed to fail. The only question is whether the economy will sufficiently recover - despite His follishness - to get back on track fairly soon.
ReplyDeleteThe One's plan seems rather modeled on FDR's plan for the Great Depression (which appears to have prolonged a couple bad years into a decade plus that took WWII to get us out of).