EDITED TO ADD: In comments at Borepatch's post, commenter genedunn wrote
"Wait a minute... I thought selective enforcement of laws (rules) was the first sign of tyranny?"To which I replied
"A sole proprietorship IS a tyranny. All he may choose is what kind of tyrant to be: The benevolent kind or the douche-y kind.
This one did not choose wisely."
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Whatever happened to minimum pieces of flair?
ReplyDeleteSeems the hotel ownership has a flair for bad marketing.
ReplyDeleteIt starts with the flag pins and then the desk clerk shows up in her burqa, claiming she is simply showing her pride in her country of origin, and the chef starts coming in with bloody clothes from his animistic animal sacrifices before work, and the cleaning staff decides that they should be allowed to go shoeless and topless like back home, and then the owner wonders why nobody reserves a room there any more.
ReplyDeleteAlternately, one flag pin is allowed and another is not. Then the owner suddenly has to get a lawyer to defend against a discrimination suit of some kind, and loses, and is out tens of thousands of dollars.
There is no good choice except to close the business down and sit at home, quietly reading a book.
mikee,
ReplyDeleteWhile reductio ad absurdum is amusing and one of my favorite rhetorical devices, here in real life a little common sense can be applied.
The internet, it ate my comment!
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget this isn't the first example of Marriott behaving badly - does anyone else remember how at the NRA Convention last year in Charlotte (2011) the Marriott there set up the attendees for criminal charges?
I do indeed remember that Gay_Cynic.
ReplyDeleteThey don't get my money. And I've actually traveled a good bit this year.
Maybe the employee, although patriotic, was a total dick, and they were looking for any ol' excuse to can his ass.
ReplyDeleteWearing a flag pin wouldn't make him a lesser dick.
That's certainly possible. I'm always open to hearing the other side of the story.
ReplyDeleteThis makes the news so often, does no company ever read of it and take a look at their own rules before they are on the national news?
ReplyDeleteWith about twenty seconds of thought, I came up with changing "no personal [jewelry] items [other than watches]" to "one [non-watch] item of personal jewelry of no more than one inch (or 2.54cm) in ant dimension, without independent movement or light display" and I am sure better could be devised.
Seems to me that getting a few thousand little American flag pins in the mail would get the point across to the idjits at that Marriott.
ReplyDeleteMeh... Typical of Marriott's condescending attitude toward the military AND the flag... Nothing new here.
ReplyDeleteOld appliance can be harder and uncomfortable, but with avant-garde designs and patterns, your guests can blow assured that they'll leave your auberge in a few canicule activity airy and afraid to acknowledgment soon.
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There IS such a thing as bad publicity!
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