[Sca-librarians] Re: Sca-librarians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7

[cat_herder at comcast.net]

> 
> > Hey Saradwen, 
> > 
> > Did they try investigating just how the contract issues got 
> sticky? :-) 
> > Were there any crumbs? 
> 
> Yeah, see, what Sodexho wanted out of us is a $180,000 "guarantee" 
> payment; in other words, before they'd set up shop running a café in 
> our library, they wanted us to pay that sum up front as a guarantee 
> that they wouldn't lose their shirts running such an etablishment in a 
> library, and the library, already having spent $7 million over the 
> original projected cost of the Main Library, is short of that kind of 
> cash to pay such a sum, so....therein lay the dilemma. 
> 
> So I guess they've been in contract negotiations ever since that first 
> demand of "guaraantee" money. 
> 
> Sounds like blackmail to me.... :-\ 
> 
> ~Saradwen 
> 



Did y'all tell them that in a Free Enterprise System they take their shot just like every other business and it is up to them to make it a success?


Tamara
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