02/12/2012-13:19:13
RE: ETF 2012 qui y va?
Dear Frank,
I have to report a bad experience at ETF 2012 and I would like to propose an improvement for the next event.
My daughter is living in Berlin and I thought it might be a good idea to take the opportunity of one of our visit to escape the family and come to say hello to friends participating to the event. I had myself no reason to book a room for the event as I am not a valve amplifier designer and I was staying with my wife and daughter in Berlin city center. I rented a car and drove on Friday to the remote place. I stayed only one hour to have a look. I decided to come back Saturday morning to meet with Bruno who was staying there, as we had to drive back together to Cologne Sunday morning and I proposed to my wife and daughter to come with me in order to have a quick look to the place and say hello to some people that we met in Stella, in 2011.
We had no intention to "steel" any coffee and drink, but as we were standing in the back of the conference room to say hello to Julien, who witnessed the scene, we where suddenly taken to task by one of the organizers who non politely asked us to leave the room and the hotel immediately.
I explained the situation and proposed to pay a fee to cover the cost of this very short visit, but this guy was incredibly aggressive.
My wife and daughter were shocked and I will have now a lot of difficulties to convince them to participate again to an ETF, at least in Germany.
So my proposal, on top of not authorizing non educated people to take responsibility in such organisation, would be to provide provision to allow visitors to come for one day, if they do not wish to participate to the whole event.
The number of cases will probably be very limited...
Kind regards,
Dominique ROLAND
I have to report a bad experience at ETF 2012 and I would like to propose an improvement for the next event.
My daughter is living in Berlin and I thought it might be a good idea to take the opportunity of one of our visit to escape the family and come to say hello to friends participating to the event. I had myself no reason to book a room for the event as I am not a valve amplifier designer and I was staying with my wife and daughter in Berlin city center. I rented a car and drove on Friday to the remote place. I stayed only one hour to have a look. I decided to come back Saturday morning to meet with Bruno who was staying there, as we had to drive back together to Cologne Sunday morning and I proposed to my wife and daughter to come with me in order to have a quick look to the place and say hello to some people that we met in Stella, in 2011.
We had no intention to "steel" any coffee and drink, but as we were standing in the back of the conference room to say hello to Julien, who witnessed the scene, we where suddenly taken to task by one of the organizers who non politely asked us to leave the room and the hotel immediately.
I explained the situation and proposed to pay a fee to cover the cost of this very short visit, but this guy was incredibly aggressive.
My wife and daughter were shocked and I will have now a lot of difficulties to convince them to participate again to an ETF, at least in Germany.
So my proposal, on top of not authorizing non educated people to take responsibility in such organisation, would be to provide provision to allow visitors to come for one day, if they do not wish to participate to the whole event.
The number of cases will probably be very limited...
Kind regards,
Dominique ROLAND