Ask me some time about having to pay for a full day of a union
electrician's time to get the lights turned on each morning at the
conference center in Montreal...
On 2016-02-10 10:18 AM, Williams, Jason wrote:
Yikes!
I have *never* heard of anything like that. I have heard of last minute being
asked to pay some small fee for a room use, but this seems so ridiculous!
- Jason
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Of Karin Lagesen
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:54 AM
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Subject: [Discuss] heads up regarding classroom setup
I just wanted to give people a slight heads up regarding setting up a room in a
classroom setting. I recently taught in a really fancy room where the tables
had both network and power in them. They were set up in a U shape, so as per
usual, the first thing we did was to set them up in rows so that people
wouldn´t have to break their necks. We didn´t get power to the tables now,
because we couldn´t figure out the cabling, but we didn´t think too much of it.
There were no notes or information regarding room configuration or desks or
anything anywhere.
I just got word from the host that they incurred an extra $3000 charge from the
facilities management for costs incurred due to the facilities people having to
put the tables together correctly again. I have profusely apologized to the
host, so no hard feelings fortunately, but still. It might be wise to not only
double but triple check if there might be any issues regarding room
configuration.
karin
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