GhaudePhaede010 said:
ohmylanta1003 said:
That's great man. Doesn't matter. It isn't the job of the event coordinator to fucking inspect the building to make sure all codes are being followed. Should I, if I'm coordinating an event, know this handbook cover to cover?
http://www.illinois.gov/cdb/business/codes/Documents/BuildingCodesDirectory.pdf
It is the job of the people who work at the establishment and building inspectors to make sure that codes are not being broken. Not the goddamn customer. If I say that I want rooms for 1,000 people and they don't have room for 1,000 people, the hotel needs to say so. I do not have to babysit them.
Another example: every food establishment displays a sign indicating how many people are allowed to be in the restaurant at one time. Is it my job, AS A CUSTOMER, to count how many people are in the restaurant to make sure it's okay for me to be in there? Is it? Is it?
Anyway, if you'd like to talk about the responsibility of the customer, let's go bud. I'd be glad to talk. But when I coordinate an event, I'm not gonna ask if the building meets all the building codes, because there's people that are supposed to do that for me (hired BY THE CITY, PAID FOR BY MY TAXES). And I'm certainly not gonna ask what their fucking carbon footprint is. And that is why it's funny.
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To add to the hilarity is the fact that the damage done to the building (like the car port) was done way after the venue was secured. When they rented the place initially, the majority of these issues were not concerns and the people running the hotel did not bring these potential issues up to their customer (the tournament organizers). It is like this guy thinks the tournament organizers went to the worst place, with Nintendo money, and rented the venus. Please. That would be absolutely insane. Insane to the point of hilarity.
Judgement is a funny thing. Since this clown does not know the whole story, they decided to judge in the wake of thee aftermath. Nicely done.
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Whether or not the whole story is known, the fact remains: the organisers planned an event at a venue which was unsuitable from the outset, and became more unsuitable as the event drew nearer. This happened either because the venue failed to provide the organisers with sufficient or correct safety information, or the organisers failed to carry out their research properly in the first place. Whichever it was, it looks like health and safety was completely ignored and somebody, somewhere, is gravely at fault. Yes, it's insane, but I don't find it hilarious.
And problems occurring after the venue is secured is no excuse - if there was a huge storm going on, somebody should have had the common sense to call the venue and ask whether everything was still okay to go ahead, not least because they'd need to get word out to the attendees of a change of plan as early as possible.
EDIT: The more I read about the hotel, the more of a visible disaster it seems to be. I don't know how anyone didn't figure out something wasn't right, when they first secured the venue. The car park roof collapse happened 5 days before the event. Apparently it made the TV news. Yet still it didn't seem to raise any eyebrows, because they still went ahead.
