[Dixielandjazz] Re: All Good Things Come To An End

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Dear Bill:

It is obvious that the Bartenders Union was better then the Musicians 
unions or the Idiots would simply have hired faster harder working 
bartenders and kept on the source of the additional revenue,  but that 
page must have been missing from the food and beverage directors 
handbook. :))

Times in that industry have not changed one bit.   That is why they 
call them Food and Beverage managers and not entertainment managers,  
now only if some idiot musician bandleaders would go to food and 
beverage managers SKOOL  or at least send ONe of their KIds to the 
school, we might be able to turn it back around :))

Cheers,

Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
To: TCASHWIGG <tcashwigg at aol.com>; dixieland jazz mail list 
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; Stephen Barbone 
<barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
Sent: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:29:47 +1000
Subject: Re:  All Good Things Come To An End

   Dear Steve and Tom,
It is not only casino managers who mismanage music.
I sadly recall halycon days before the New South Wales (Australia) state
government legislated poker machines in pubs for their big business 
mates,
thereby sounding the death knell for all forms of live music in hotels 
here.
On several pub jobs our band was packing the customers in and the 
publican
had to hire additional bar staff to cater for the enthusiastic patrons.
The extra-staff costs exceeded the increased bar sales, so they 
retrenched
the band as an initial cost-saving exercise.
"Go figure", as you Ermerikans say.
In Australia it is considered mandatory that publicans go to Idiot Skool
before they are given any hotel license.
Kind regards,
Bill.