FWIW, a fellow innkeeper from England equally disgusted with the move started a thread on this topic under the "Help Make TripAdvisor Better" forum and a few of us have had some fun with it.
What shocked me was a post from a woman who felt we ( not "we" as in us, but hoteliers in general ) all had shoddy behavior, rudeness, property destruction, inconsiderations, etc. coming to us because we're all so "rich" and your "average, hardworking person could barely afford staying in hotels"
Yup, I almost choked on my bonbon and early afternoon scotch as I read it. LOL
To think I turned off my favorite gameshow to go read what she had wrote too. another big LOL.
Tim_Toad_HLB said:
What shocked me was a post from a woman who felt we ( not "we" as in us, but hoteliers in general ) all had shoddy behavior, rudeness, property destruction, inconsiderations, etc. coming to us because we're all so "rich" and your "average, hardworking person could barely afford staying in hotels"
Why is it ok to destroy property and treat someone rudely because they have (or are perceived th have) money?
One of my friends had a walk-in say something pretty much to the effect of, 'You have the money, I don't, and I want the room for $90. You can afford it, what's your problem?' Needless to say that fellow was shown the door tout de suite.
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I have so much trouble understanding this type of attitude. Sad to say but there is NO WHERE left in our economy where you get great service as part of the purchase price. From food/dining establishments, to retail big and small...half-hearted service with a side of bad attitude is the NORM...any time you get something remotely pleasant in terms of service it is a big deal, a total exception...
So here we have b&b owners knocking themselves out to give great service and a wonderful experience...and instead of appreciation we get told that we aren't doing enough and make too much money to begin with, so therefore deserve to be treated like dirt and have our properties' destroyed...Grrrrr!
I sincerely hope that what goes around, comes around...
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So here we have b&b owners knocking themselves out to give great service and a wonderful experience...and instead of appreciation we get told that we aren't doing enough and make too much money to begin with, so therefore deserve to be treated like dirt and have our properties' destroyed...Grrrrr!
It is the result of 40 years of class warfare being promoted. We are supposed to hate the rich, simply because they are rich. No one cares how hard they may have worked to get rich. I do not hate the rich. I want them to come here and spend their money in hope (futile) that some day I will be rich.
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"It is the result of 40 years of class warfare being promoted."
I think its high time the "promoters" got fired.
Most importantly, the "promoters" of fairer income distribution, less preferential treatment for the rich via the tax code, etc. are doing a lousy job. The deeply entrenched "promoters" who have essentially been winning the "class war" since our country's inception to the benefit of the rich and powerful have been doing a bang up job with all the results to show for it.
About the only class warfare I see going on is in the sad but true facts that the U.S. enjoys the highest income disparity between the average worker and the average executive in the industrialized world.
Hell, even when companies are tanking and bleeding money, their executives are drawing obscene benefits from their "efforts" while the underlings on the factory floor take it in the shorts.
Is it any wonder there is some token resentment?
And I mean token because most all of us know that we don't dare take to the streets or even the voting booth and try and change it.
Along with that, we are a deeply indebted nation that also enjoys the lowest effective, post-deduction, exemption, etc.. tax burden of any western style, industrialized nation on earth. Future generations are facing a daunting scenario in which they will be expected sacrifice in order to shoulder cleaning up after the greedfest of the last several hundred years.
There is not a single area of modern life in America which is governed by legislation, court decisions, lobbying efforts, etc. that isn't tilted heavily in the favor of the rich. Nor are any of these issues not routinely manipulated and influenced by the lackeys, think tanks, lobbyists and spokespeople for the rich and powerful at our expense.
"We are supposed to hate the rich, simply because they are rich."
No, we are supposed to hate those that exploit others to get rich, create instability in our communities due to their speculative and risky investment strategies that put the many at risk and despoil our precious earth doing so.
There are many rich and powerful people doing lots of good deeds with their wealth, while keeping a close on the eye on the really important things that make up a good society and economic structure. One of the richest people on earth, Bill Gates' father helped create this organization.
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/commonwealth/index.html
"No one cares how hard they may have worked to get rich."
If only that was true, it would be much easier to stomach the mess they've created here by their unbridled greed. It is a minority of people in the highest echelons of pwoer and influence that "earned" their fortunes through hard work.
Inheritance, unsustainable, speculative investment schemes that do exact a toll on most average workers security, etc.. account for most of the "big" money folk.
