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spidermike007

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  1. 23 minutes ago, rott said:

    No the petty thing is to refuse to pay it because you are a bit <deleted>. 

    The hotel dropped it from the bill in an attempt to keep the peace. 

    The charge is not unheard of, Jools in Soi 4 always had the corkage charge prominently displayed. 

    Is that factual information, or something the hotel has said to the media, in a hopeless attempt to get back some of their ruined reputation, and remove some of the dirt from their faces?

     

    I understand corkage. I am a wine collector, and attend alot of wine dinners in the US. Usually at very nice restaurants. The corkage is something we work out in advance. It is very rare for us to get charged corkage, however we are a large group, and spend alot on food. I get the need for a corkage fee. I truly wonder that their attitude was. This guy could have been a sourpuss, with a bad attitude, or he could have had a very good reason to be as angry as he was. Will we ever know?

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  2. 13 hours ago, ukrules said:

    Didn't she make a career out of sending people to prison for exactly this kind of thing?

    Yes, and I did not approve of that. However, the world changes, the American people have let their feelings be known about that nonsense, and maybe she is realizing that. Politics is expedience, if nothing else. Change is good. The Trump administration is still vigorously pursuing federal ganga convictions. So, I would call it progress. No more dinosaur policies.  

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Tchooptip said:

    "When faced with jail, and who knows what else, many of us would prefer to "apologize". 

    Of course, you are right Mike! Let me tell you I appreciate most of your (intelligent and well-balanced) comments

    But "The regime has once again decided to protect the bigger guy, over the smaller guy." ...do you think the following comment about this hotel was honest? With a sentence like don't support this modern day slavery? Without forgetting that after discussion with the manager at the time of the facts he did not have to pay any supplement for his own bottle of Gin.

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    The review was extreme. And there was obviously alot of animus on both sides. And do we know how the resort really treats their employees? I have seen many Burmese workers here facing significant abuse, condescending behavior and ugliness from their superiors and employers. So, we do not really know. 

     

    But, who really had the most to lose?

     

    1. Thailand and the reputation of Thai tourism. 

     

    2. This resort. Major egg on their face. 

     

    3. In the long run, the tourist lost the least. He will be soon forgotten. Not the incident. 

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  4. Just now, welovesundaysatspace said:

    It was totally right to charge him for what he did. 
     

    If that’s the case then somethings wrong with the system here but not with charging him. 
     

    I hope the only one with egg on his face is that guy. 

    Wrong. He is a tourist that will be quickly forgotten. This extremely tone deaf, incompetent and arrogant administration, will have egg on their faces for a long time, over this foolishness and very poorly timed pettiness. And the hotel will lose an enormous amount of business over this lack of goodwill. As far as the local franchisees go (the cops), their reputation could not be any worse, so no real loss there.

     

    Horrible judgment all the way around. 

  5. 1 hour ago, Curt1591 said:

     ...  many of us would prefer to "apologize".

     

    I would imagine that many, if not most, would simply pay the corkage or go elsewhere if it was an issue. Few would toss a hissy-fit, let alone go on such a rant.  

    True. But it was likely a really stupid fee. 200 baht OK. Even 400 baht, maybe. It was likely 1,000 baht. Dumb and dumber. The hotel deserves all the bad press. Customer service is a really big deal, and being in the service industry, and forgetting that principal, can be costly. They are simply paying the price for being court jester fools. 

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  6. 26 minutes ago, KKr said:

    well, well, well, so 
    they should not have dropped the charges, and he would have vindicated himself in court and countersued for defamation.
    You mean along those lines ... .?

    No. He never should have been charged in the first place. Had the police NOT been paid off, he would not have been. It was a fiasco from day one. And both Thailand, the cops, the army, and this heinous hotel richly deserve all of the egg on the face. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, blazes said:

     

    I don't know about "monster", but let's face it, thousands of Democrat voters told her to eff off last year as she plummeted in the votes of her very own party!!!!

    Clearly, those clear-sighted Democrat voters saw something extremely ugly in this woman, and they voted accordingly.

     

     

    Ugly? How can anyone use that term, when comparing her to either Pence or Trump? Be more creative, please. 

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