Random Rants LXXXVI: OH, FUDDLE-DUDDLE!

[H4run]

The company that I'm negotiating to adjust the rent in relation to Covid, what is seems to be a good and successful negotiation now seems changed. They want us to turn in our profit/loss company report, this is madness, this is a global disaster, and our profit/loss report are highly confidential, I don't know we can resume the negotiation for such impossible demand.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The company that I'm negotiating to adjust the rent in relation to Covid, what is seems to be a good and successful negotiation now seems changed. They want us to turn in our profit/loss company report, this is madness, this is a global disaster, and our profit/loss report are highly confidential, I don't know we can resume the negotiation for such impossible demand.

Tell them no problem, then present them with a non-disclosure agreement with a truly staggering penalty clause and a very murky arbitration arrangement that will basically allow you to collect from them no matter how the information is leaked. They'll decide they really didn't want to know after all and withdraw the request.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Rant: Skip the Dishes has been sending me discounts over the past month and a half. I ignored the first two, but $10 worth of Skip credits, added to what I already had?

Yeah, that convinced me to indulge in some McDonalds tonight.

So where's the rant part?

You'd think I'd have learned by now that every time I try to include cookies with my McDonalds orders, they always get it wrong. Counting to a dozen, or even a half-dozen, is complicated. But this time I figured, I'll just order two cookies. Just two basic chocolate chip cookies. How badly can they screw that up?

It turns out that they can't count to two.

So I promptly took my place in the customer service chat queue for a refund, and have yet to see email confirmation that it happened. It's actually not that much money, just $1.56, and there are many people around the world who would love to have just this as something to be annoyed about (well, I'm annoyed by many other things these days, but this is the most immediate annoyance).

But it's the principle of the thing.

 

[H4run]

Tell them no problem, then present them with a non-disclosure agreement with a truly staggering penalty clause and a very murky arbitration arrangement that will basically allow you to collect from them no matter how the information is leaked. They'll decide they really didn't want to know after all and withdraw the request.

I need to seek if any of the clause that you mentioned if it is exist in the first place. But one thing for sure, we are not a go public company, our financial detail are confidential or at least we don't have any responsibility to present it to public. I told them I can prove that we were loss in other way, like how they charge us way above the market-price, it's our own recklessness to trust the third party, and we use the point that we lost during the two years of our rent in our opening letters regarding our request to adjust the rent payment in relation to Covid. Now they want us to prove it by doing audit on us, and fulfilling their request will bring the negotiation nowhere. But thanks Tim for your solution and concern.

wth I mean man, just take the money that we have and go, we cannot do anything beyond that in the first place, no court will change that also, smh.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The company that I'm negotiating to adjust the rent in relation to Covid, what is seems to be a good and successful negotiation now seems changed. They want us to turn in our profit/loss company report, this is madness, this is a global disaster, and our profit/loss report are highly confidential, I don't know we can resume the negotiation for such impossible demand.

Tell them no problem, then present them with a non-disclosure agreement with a truly staggering penalty clause and a very murky arbitration arrangement that will basically allow you to collect from them no matter how the information is leaked. They'll decide they really didn't want to know after all and withdraw the request.

Good advice even if a bit antagonistic. An alternative would be to offer sales information from previous quarters and current ones to show how you have lost revenue because of the virus. Your company profitability is none of their business; revenue is usually less sensitive and certainly less meaningful. What is your goal for the discussions? What is your desired outcome? How flexible is that? What are you willing to do if you cannot get that? You should always try to make the deal beneficial to the landlord too. Give him a reason to work with you.

Tell your landlord what you need and what happens if you cannot get it. Then be prepared to walk away and do what you said you would do.

You: We need a 30% reduction in our rent for 6 months or a 20% reduction for 9 months. At the end of that time we will pay a 5% increase in the current rent for the remainder of the lease. If we cannot have those or something equivalent, then we will have to move. We will give you 30 days notice.

You need to state in a clear way the outcome you need and show some flexibility; offer choices. You need to give some benefit to the landlord. And you need to be ready to walk. Be transparent an honest about what you want and can accept.

 

[H4run]

Good advice even if a bit antagonistic. An alternative would be to offer sales information from previous quarters and current ones to show how you have lost revenue because of the virus. Your company profitability is none of their business; revenue is usually less sensitive and certainly less meaningful. What is your goal for the discussions? What is your desired outcome? How flexible is that? What are you willing to do if you cannot get that? You should always try to make the deal beneficial to the landlord too. Give him a reason to work with you.

Tell your landlord what you need and what happens if you cannot get it. Then be prepared to walk away and do what you said you would do.

You: We need a 30% reduction in our rent for 6 months or a 20% reduction for 9 months. At the end of that time we will pay a 5% increase in the current rent for the remainder of the lease. If we cannot have those or something equivalent, then we will have to move. We will give you 30 days notice.

You need to state in a clear way the outcome you need and show some flexibility; offer choices. You need to give some benefit to the landlord. And you need to be ready to walk. Be transparent an honest about what you want and can accept.

Thank you, it's hard even to continue even they cut it for 50 percent our revenue depend on the event, while the venue that we rent will bring nothing to us in return because currently because of covid we cannot re-rent it for huge event (our event mostly consist of 1000 people or more) , the contract suppose to end this year, we just want to cut it in the middle of the year and only pay per-event that are already booked and moved to end of 2020 or early 2021 (hopefully this little apocalypse will end at that time), beyond that is hard. But thank you Bird. All these hardship is nothing compare to the owner though, in the end I'm just employee, but I really hope I can somehow find a way out for him, whatever that is.

 

[Cutlass]

I thought I remembered the Parks Canada website as being useful. Nothing seems searchable or informative there now.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I thought I remembered the Parks Canada website as being useful. Nothing seems searchable or informative there now.

What information are you looking for?

 

[Cutlass]

What information are you looking for?

When travel opens back up, one possibility for me to check out is parks and natural sites around the Gaspe peninsula of Quebec. But I'm not finding good information. Of even the names of the parks. Much less locations and directions. And some of the stuff I do see, the websites are in French. Which I can't read.

Not that I'm likely to get a chance to do this this year.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

When travel opens back up, one possibility for me to check out is parks and natural sites around the Gaspe peninsula of Quebec. But I'm not finding good information. Of even the names of the parks. Much less locations and directions. And some of the stuff I do see, the websites are in French. Which I can't read.

Not that I'm likely to get a chance to do this this year.

All the national parks are closed for the foreseeable future and I think most provincial parks have been as well. But that's up to the individual provinces and territories. Some provinces aren't letting people in from other provinces unless they're either residents or work in essential services.

Any websites to do with national parks are legally supposed to be bilingual, though Quebec provincial parks is another matter. They don't have to provide information in English, though it would be in their best financial interest to do so.

Did you save any links to the websites you visited? My spoken French is rusty but I can still read some, or you might consider PMing Marla Singer and ask her help to translate it for you.

 

[Cutlass]

All the national parks are closed for the foreseeable future and I think most provincial parks have been as well. But that's up to the individual provinces and territories. Some provinces aren't letting people in from other provinces unless they're either residents or work in essential services.

Any websites to do with national parks are legally supposed to be bilingual, though Quebec provincial parks is another matter. They don't have to provide information in English, though it would be in their best financial interest to do so.

Did you save any links to the websites you visited? My spoken French is rusty but I can still read some, or you might consider PMing Marla Singer and ask her help to translate it for you.

I don't expect any travel options to be open this summer. And odds are good that will remain true through the fall as well. So I'm really not in any hurry to get anything planned. The Parks Canada site is bi-lingual. I just couldn't dig out the information I wanted from it. I'm not sure who ran the other sites.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I don't expect any travel options to be open this summer. And odds are good that will remain true through the fall as well. So I'm really not in any hurry to get anything planned. The Parks Canada site is bi-lingual. I just couldn't dig out the information I wanted from it. I'm not sure who ran the other sites.

Well, when you are ready, just give a shout. There are some people around here who read French.

 

[Kaitzilla]

So I just woke up from a dream where my friend had me feeding 50 stray cats in abandoned amusement park each day.
Each day they got harder to find and feed.
Also, the amusement park turned out to be haunted and got worse each day.

The townspeople were very unhelpful.
So was the cat who snuck into that room and got stuck in it for 24 hours due to a closed door.
His yowling really pissed off the ghosts.

 

[AdamCrock]

I too had a weird dream - I was part of the team investigating a nuclear plant meltdown. As it turned out the reason was that someone used a flat tire as a conveyor belt of sort ... wait, what ? o.O ? O.o ? Than we went for a drink to a bar and then me and my buddy with the Indiana Jones hat participated in a bar brawl and then I woke up. I was feeling weird to say the least when I woke up .... I mean nuclear meltdowns, flat tires and Indiana Jones - what the heck is wrong with me ? The symbology eludes me.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Not to be a downer here, but you guys do know that weird dreams are associated with the Covid fever, right? Check your temperatures please.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Not to be a downer here, but you guys do know that weird dreams are associated with the Covid fever, right? Check your temperatures please.

I have nightmares twice a week.

This one wasn't nearly as bad as that one time I went to Hell thankfully.

Still monitoring my temp and sense of smell daily thanks.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I have nightmares twice a week.

This one wasn't nearly as bad as that one time I went to Hell thankfully.

Still monitoring my temp and sense of smell daily thanks.

OK. Be safe.

Wait...

Nightmares twice a week? That seems pretty extreme...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I too had a weird dream - I was part of the team investigating a nuclear plant meltdown. As it turned out the reason was that someone used a flat tire as a conveyor belt of sort ... wait, what ? o.O ? O.o ? Than we went for a drink to a bar and then me and my buddy with the Indiana Jones hat participated in a bar brawl and then I woke up. I was feeling weird to say the least when I woke up .... I mean nuclear meltdowns, flat tires and Indiana Jones - what the heck is wrong with me ? The symbology eludes me.

Indiana Jones is an "archaeologist" (really a relic hunter, like the TV series) who has to cope with frustrating distractions on the way to solving the larger problem.

So what are you looking for, what are the frustrating distractions that get in your way, and what is the danger that threatens to prevent you from reaching your goal? Consider that on more than one occasion the thing Indiana Jones was looking for is something best left undisturbed. So maybe you should think about what you're looking for and decide if it's worth the risk.

In short: Consider the possible consequences of your actions and have a plan to deal with them.

And if that fails, always wear a fedora and carry a whip.

 

[Narz]

https://dominion.games/ is running really slow, used to get games instantly not it takes like 10+minutes

 

[Lemon Merchant]

OK. Be safe.

Wait...

Nightmares twice a week? That seems pretty extreme...

I have three to four a week. Have had since I was a child.