This is actually something that has been on my mind for some time now. So let me just ask the world.
If you as part of your role(s) served as an event coordinator of a place and accepted (reduced price) security deposits for the location you work with (for?), and the people who rented it were having a HUGE party (there is not text big enough for their shindig) and afterwards, as part of the agreement ... a contract signed by the head person of the shindig ... the people whom were supposed to clean up the location (which is old btw, no shortchanging or lying to that) and giving them TWO DAYS to do so, only to discover...
Excessively dirty dance floor showing where dirty mop water had been used. Not even sure the people knew how to use one.
None of the tables put back into their original locations. Some of the tables actually left physically outside the buildling.
Not just one, but five (5) bags of trash which as part of the contract they are required to take with them when they leave.
Flour and other food preparation items left on service tables and range-tops. I didn't even care about the floors in the kitchen, they are set to be redone anyway ... but leaving food out is a sure-fire way to attract rodents, especially in this weather.
One whole floor of the building having been locked and everyone who was putting the event together knew to stay out of entirely, but only to find a number of chairs turned over, candles on the tables. Open/Empty cans of beer, cigarette butts (no ashs trays btw, so I don't know what they used).
One very large ladder left in the main dance floor and setup (to take down a poster that had been put up no doubt). Using the ladder not the issue. The issue is they didn't put it away. They certainly didn't have it out during the event.
A rented (by the coordinators of the event) smoker/bbq unit left at the location for several days that if not for us, they would not even be aware it had not been sent back. Let alone in the way.
The discovery that the Catering License they were to have for the event, a detail they had "assured" me had been taken care of was discovered by Excise Officer (a nice young man who showed up while I was trying to show the disastrous location to would-be clients for next summer) as not having been filed properly and thus not having a legal permit for the event.
The stench of what can only be described as "vomit" coming from one of the very large HVAC units that didn't come from before. The smell was discovered to have been trapped in the filters of the unit ... which begged the question who did what and how close to that extremely expensive item.
A damaged door brace (as in, one side is broken) which has since been repaired.
Amazingly, the bathrooms were clean. They told me that they had "run out of toilet paper", yet there were 16 rolls of it in an open bag behind the bar on a counter that was visible from many tens of feet away to anyone in that room.,
Amidst all of this, oh wait ... then there is the CO2 tank (5' type) left in the office for two weeks. When these details were presented, the individual and one of his staff belittled the entire thing and offered to fix things. I said certainly, what were they doing later that week and they both said (in front of a witness btw) ... "I can't that day, I'm busy". Wow, thanks. that would have meant you had the opportunity for a week's time afterwards to clean up and again they couldn't.
I have been called a man of "repulsive character" because of the event by the guy who was the head coordinator. I haven't responded. Hell, I haven't even told that many people about it. I was really pissed off for a while. But as I have his signature on the contract, and his initials along each and every one of those problem areas listed, and yet he still thinks he should get his deposit back.
Sigh ... repulsive character ... wow. I'm tired of little people.... really, I am.
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