I would like to respectfully disagree with someone who is not part of the group with whom I am sharing this.
I would like to respectfully disagree with someone who is not part of the group with whom I am sharing this. Actually, several people aren't in this group because reasons.
Anyway. Yes, it is wrong for the customer service reps to get dumped on in any situation. Technically, hotel staff are not part of the administration. Guess what, Trump refused to separate himself from his businesses, so they are him to a lot of people. And don't tell me they aren't using the name and its association with POTUS for their business interests. In addition, he and his administration have not prioritized making it possible to at least feel like you've directly communicated to the White House.
This is called thinking outside the box. Or disruptive innovation, if you'd like to stretch a point. Yes, it is bad for the hotel employees who have to answer the phone. I don't really think it would be good for the volunteers who used to staff the White House comment line. Can't get to one set of customer service reps? Get to another.
My issue would be, rather than venting at people who don't care and clearly are not listening (White House), or at people who can't really do anything (hotel employees) find out who your Senator and Representative are and call them. Call your Governor. Call your State level legislators. Call your mayor. Call your local Republican party office, or the national one if it has a number, and bug the heck out of them.
Make them worry about their re-election. That's far more effective than calling the hotels. Trump, Conway, Bannon, Spicer, and the others will just whine about how unfair it all is, and how they are going to go after "those people". They don't care. You might have a chance at getting to a few of the other levels of government, though.
It is completely disingenuous to suggest that only tactics that inconvenience no one are acceptable in such a lopsided, power-imbalanced relationship. Of course strikes and sometimes other forms of "passive" resistance inconvenience people. That may be the only way they have of forcing someone to pay attention without resorting to violence. Which, btw, is where people get to have their excuses for marshal law and such-like. Which are still questionable many, many times.
Sorry it's inconvenient to be part of a civil society where people get to be discontent in real time, rather than just as a nice, quiet theoretical debate. People wanting to be polite and not bother anyone is how we not only get immovable -ocracies and -tatorships, it's how you end up with mob violence (real mob violence, not alternative facts mob violence) and violent revolutions. Personally, if we've got a window to avoid that, I'd like to take it. Not to mention there's potentially some value to having the moral high ground if the idiots in the Administration do decide to try and declare Marshal Law for some trumped up reason. And yes, I meant that.
Anyway. Yes, it is wrong for the customer service reps to get dumped on in any situation. Technically, hotel staff are not part of the administration. Guess what, Trump refused to separate himself from his businesses, so they are him to a lot of people. And don't tell me they aren't using the name and its association with POTUS for their business interests. In addition, he and his administration have not prioritized making it possible to at least feel like you've directly communicated to the White House.
This is called thinking outside the box. Or disruptive innovation, if you'd like to stretch a point. Yes, it is bad for the hotel employees who have to answer the phone. I don't really think it would be good for the volunteers who used to staff the White House comment line. Can't get to one set of customer service reps? Get to another.
My issue would be, rather than venting at people who don't care and clearly are not listening (White House), or at people who can't really do anything (hotel employees) find out who your Senator and Representative are and call them. Call your Governor. Call your State level legislators. Call your mayor. Call your local Republican party office, or the national one if it has a number, and bug the heck out of them.
Make them worry about their re-election. That's far more effective than calling the hotels. Trump, Conway, Bannon, Spicer, and the others will just whine about how unfair it all is, and how they are going to go after "those people". They don't care. You might have a chance at getting to a few of the other levels of government, though.
It is completely disingenuous to suggest that only tactics that inconvenience no one are acceptable in such a lopsided, power-imbalanced relationship. Of course strikes and sometimes other forms of "passive" resistance inconvenience people. That may be the only way they have of forcing someone to pay attention without resorting to violence. Which, btw, is where people get to have their excuses for marshal law and such-like. Which are still questionable many, many times.
Sorry it's inconvenient to be part of a civil society where people get to be discontent in real time, rather than just as a nice, quiet theoretical debate. People wanting to be polite and not bother anyone is how we not only get immovable -ocracies and -tatorships, it's how you end up with mob violence (real mob violence, not alternative facts mob violence) and violent revolutions. Personally, if we've got a window to avoid that, I'd like to take it. Not to mention there's potentially some value to having the moral high ground if the idiots in the Administration do decide to try and declare Marshal Law for some trumped up reason. And yes, I meant that.
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