a $800-a-night prostitute in Columbia? :dubious: That would be a $5000/night hooker in America.
I suspect both exist.
Wasn’t Spitzer taken down by being exposed as spending time with an escort whose fee was in the thousands? Too lazy to look for it.
Or any ceremony, for that matter.
I’ve seen that joke, I’ve heard that joke, but somehow your timing in using it in this thread would have made milk squirt out my nose, had I the misfortune of drinking milk at that moment.
This is a great advertisement FOR VEGAS!!!
I used to live in Vegas. My wife was an attorney there. Her clients were mostly banks.
One fun case was a sales manager on a Vegas junket who ran up $25K on his company credit card at a gentlemen’s club one evening. This guy was not a high roller; he usually charged $15-20 meals.
After he was fired he tried to sue my wife’s client, the merchant bank of the club, for permitting him to run up these charges completely unwittingly.
The signatures on the charge slips & the security video of one discussion about champagne rooms stopped his case cold. Not to mention the utter implausibility of his legal theory that somehow our client was at fault.
I’m no graphologist, but looking at his sigs on the charge slips I suspect booze *just may *have been involved. This was years before YouTube, but the vid would have been a hit there too.
That one chick who was cosplaying Harley Quinn, though, made out like a bandit.
But isnt a conference for the purpose of actually doing business? As I understand, this is why many companies stay away from places like Vegas or vacation areas in general because they want the attendees to get whatever business needs done, done. Since nobody is going to stay out late they will be focused and get more out of the meetings and presentations.
This is part of the reason Overland Park Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City) gets alot of convention business. We are boring. Some bars but no strip clubs and no hookers hanging around. Work gets done at conventions here.
Depends on the conference. A lot of them are about networking/sales/marketing.
Even if it’s a single large company holding a conference, it can be as much about getting wildly-dispersed employees to get to know each other better as it is actually sitting down and brainstorming through problems.
They are also often considered a reward/perk. Sending two people to Vegas out of the department every year can be something of an incentive. Sending two people to Overland Park every year is probably not.
Nope. If the purpose is to actually get work done, you don’t need a conference; you need a few people in a meeting room.
And if it’s an industry-wide convention, not a private company conference, then often there isn’t even any pretense of getting work done. It’s all about showmanship.
Not picking up STDs that will raise our medical costs…not embarrassing me.
Thank you for the opinions everyone, whether relating to my original questions or not. I won’t be holding any business conventions there if I’m ever in the position to decide such things.
Patton said that too.