Hmm…. yeah, that was the voice mail message I got from the idiot manager at China 1. When I asked him, “since when” all he had to say was, “A while ago.” Geeh, that was nice of him to give me such advanced notice. I spoke to him around 11pm. And immediately I had to email the distribution list, go back to all the ads and edit them (couldn’t edit the flyers that were already out there of course! And of course I was left with a lot of useless flyers from Vista Print lol), edit this site, that site, (I’m sure I forgot a few, though I do try to keep it organized doh!), blah blah blah, big headache. The thing I forgot to do was post a sign on their door to redirect people to the right place. I guess I kind of thought they wouldn’t let me do that, but I should have made them let me do it after they screwed me.
The manager even tells me, well, you can do it if you can guarantee a minimum bar tab (of whatever the fuck I don’t know I didn’t even want to hear that shit – from what I remember from previous discussions it was a pretty hefty enough bar tab). First of all, there was no cover so why would I want to stress one and half days before the event so that I would be owing money at the end of it? And in principle, why should I guarantee these a-holes a bar tab. Despite my best efforts to get the word out about the change, I ended up having a low attendance and even was contacted later by at least a handful or two of people who said they never bothered to double check the location and just showed up to a closed building thinking they had just been stood up by a bogus party ad! Suffice it to say, I will not EVER go back to China 1 unless possibly if it goes under new management. Very profession these guys are… not.
Hopefully we’ve worked out all the SNAFUs and the next gathering will have a better turn out (though the people who did show up of course it is always nice meeting anyone interested in the club and getting to know who’s out there interested in this sort of thing). I am meeting more potential club members practically “as we speak!”
And more on the fun that WAS had a little later…