Conference centers and hotels are the best place to rack up those kinds of charges. $120/per gallon coffee, and $60 extension cords, but was this at a university?
- Jason -----Original Message----- From: Greg Wilson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:21 AM To: Williams, Jason <[email protected]>; Karin Lagesen <[email protected]>; Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Discuss] heads up regarding classroom setup 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Karin Lagesen > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:54 AM > To: Software Carpentry Discussion > <[email protected]> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.sof > tware-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.sof > tware-carpentry.org -- Dr Greg Wilson Director of Instructor Training Software Carpentry Foundation _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
