Sometimes things happen before your eyes that just feel right.

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: Sometimes things happen before your eyes that just feel right.

Yeah, but you gotta be watching!

StroppyChops wrote:

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: Sometimes things happen before your eyes that just feel right.

Yeah, but you gotta be watching!

Right place right time.

... and then the censorship happens !

Playboy wrote:... and then the censorship happens !

That must feel completely surreal to you.

Do not mistake me for Pete

Playboy wrote:Do not mistake me for Pete

Normally I wouldn't - you're a fair enough bloke - but the censored comment was beneath your dignity, even if you were just making a point.

Playboy wrote:Do not mistake me for Pete

Personally, I'd rather be mistaken for Pete than his successor.

But that's just my opinion.

When are you defecting so you can bee free all the time, Playboy?

Cam Nivag wrote:

vladimir wrote: one has almost zero chance of upward mobility, whereas the other has enormous potential for same.

You've said a couple of times that entry level hotel workers have almost zero chance of upward mobility. My guess is that you haven't worked in the hotel industry, because you're absolutely wrong on this.

My father owned a hotel for two years, and he spent around 10 years managing game lodges in Africa. A close friend of mine was the GM of Royal Hotel in Durban, SA for around 10 years, my brother in law was GM of The Diplomat Hotel in Johannesburg for 5 years, and I worked at the top-rated business hotel in Cambodia, IHG, for 18 months on a short-term contract.

The stint at IHG is easily verifiable, buy me a wine and cheese voucher, LOL. I was in direct contact with all levels of staff five or six days a week.

My father was the first owner in the hotel's 20 year history to promote a deserving local above lower management, it was so unusual that at first the guy thought he had misunderstood. It transformed the staff's idea of work. (Unfortunately the war soon put paid to the hotel).

You are talking about Vegas/USA. Things happen differently here. I challenge you to see what percentage of senior staff at 4-star and above institutions in Cambodia started off as waiters, and how long it took them to get where they are.

I guarantee you will find two things:

1. The percentage is way lower than in the US or Vegas, which is the experience you have, and

2. The length of time it takes here is substantially longer if and when it does happen.

But anyway, we digress. $30/day is a disgrace, you know it, we all know it. People need to stop defending slave wages so Nike/Adidas etc can make exorbitant profits and sell you their stuff for $500/pair when it cost them $50 to make them. Share the profits.

^ shoe shine sir?