The reason it is "up for discussion" is that some people found it necessary to perhaps criticize the Inns circumsyances and that is really unfair, I see this way too often on the forum.
How do you think I felt when someone posted about my foreclosure? Did anyone know I had perfect credit? That my "other job" had cut my pay over 2 years by 35%? That when I asked the bank for help it was even before I was one penny behind (in fact I was overpaid)
If someone asks for advice or comment then yes I think we are here to offer it, but to post about how they should have would have could have and what they did wrong - KNOWING how the press loves to embellish is just not acceptable.
Go ahead and sling mud and critcism at other industries but we are too small an industry to create these types of divisions.
agoodman said:
Go ahead and sling mud and critcism at other industries but we are too small an industry to create these types of divisions
I'm again going to say that no business is unreservedly 'pure' and closed to discussion.
Every business group is open to change and improvement. It is not divisive to discuss what we see and read and try to uncover where we can avoid the mistakes others make. If, with no other info than what we read, we can call an idea 'brilliant' we can also call it other way- 'lame'.
And from what was posted in the article (with 50% of it probably being wrong) it does seem these folks bit off way more than they could chew and made some horribly mis-informed decisions. That their town bailed them out once and yet they are back with hat in hand says a lot about them in particular, even if nothing about why they are in such dire need. (It is great info for aspirings to note that this ain't gonna happen elsewhere unless the town has known you since an infant and your inn is the center of all of their family events- as this place seems to be.)
I know what it is like to be on the slippery slope to overextending myself on credit in order to make it clear to the next busy season. I am nowhere near out of the hole that last year's precipitous decline in travel put me in. A year like that next year and I will be looking at second and third jobs. But I won't be asking my townspeople to help me out of the hole with donations. Food shelf maybe, but not cash to pay down my debt.
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