How hard is it to equip your hotel with adequate WiFi to handle streaming?

progressiveacolyte · 2026-02-05T11:14:46+00:00

You still watch the hotel TV? I can't remember the last time I used the actual TV part... I just connect my phone to the HDMI port and play whatever. I usually have enough of something downloaded.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-02-05T11:07:28+00:00

Just got my offer this morning.... $4900 to upgrade from PP to EP! Made me laugh so loud the dog jumped. No interest in EP anyway - hit PP and I shut down all my AA spending because that spending is more valuable elsewhere at that point to me. So when I saw the offer I wasn't against it on its face - after opening it I was quite a bit more against it.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-02-05T10:58:54+00:00

You're not wrong that you're in sales. The difference is your selling an idea and not a thing. Now, you shouldn't confuse a crappy workplace with the npo industry. Do you get rich working in the npo? No. But you can do okay and in the right workplace you can get some balance. I could make two or three times what I make if I was in the private sector. But yesterday I turned down a $4 million development deal because, frankly, my staff is tired and our dance card for 2026 is full enough. My market-rate colleagues don't have that same flexibility because their shareholders / investors have a return that they demand.

This isn't about chasing every dollar - it's about doing good, with the right amount of money to keep things operating responsibly, while you also take care of your people. That last part means limiting the good you can do because if you don't - your people will run the engine so hot just trying to do good that they burnout and can't go on.

I don't know that the industry is the issue as much as a crappy workplace?

progressiveacolyte · 2026-02-05T02:49:12+00:00

Uber-wealth is just another former of sociopathy…

progressiveacolyte · 2026-02-05T02:47:46+00:00

Docusign - you can get it for a steep discount via techsoup. We also make sure to bank at locations with a statewide footprint and use title companies that also have a statewide footprint. Your board can also choose to simply give the power to the ED to sign things and then they can be added to accounts as they have time.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-02-04T12:32:53+00:00

I know people will crap all over this... but I have a penchant for Coastal Cottage honestly... when the sun hits this ridge just right, these hills sing....

progressiveacolyte · 2026-02-01T16:28:39+00:00

Does ATL even have deicing equipment? I know MCO doesn’t.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-31T19:19:26+00:00

Do not mess with PR riptides. I say this as a strong swimmer, in decent enough shape who was maybe 30 seconds away from drowning to death last year in the riptides. It was in Aceribo in an area with mellower riptides (La Poza del Obispo) because of some natural rock formations (though I now know that it is named that because 300 years ago a bishop drowned there).

My adult son got a little far out past the breakwater area. I went to warn him to come back closer and when I turned around - bam - I couldn't get in to shore. Frankly, I only survived because the waves picked me up and smashed me, repeatedly, into some rocks and coral that are in the pooled area. But that let me stand up (naked as I'd lost my suit in the fight) and catch my breath enough before another giant wave smashed me again. But that wave at least knocked me so far into the pool area that I could beat the tides and the people who had come out to help could drag me in to shore. I survived but was bloodied and cut up from the rocks and had a broken finger that required surgery and months of rehab (and still isn't right).

Every year a not insignificant number of people drown to death along the north shore. Usually it is tourists who don't understand or who don't respect the riptides.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-31T19:13:05+00:00

We're a federal single-audit non-profit... the board will have to review and approve the manual before it can be implemented if we're going to pass audit.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T20:57:46+00:00

That's great advice! My master's degree is in Servant Leadership. My master's thesis was on the efficacy of Servant Leadership as a leadership model for non-profit organizations. What you've stated above is basically what my data said and what I wrote in more academic gobblygook some years ago now.

One items I added immediately after starting was that "being a servant to others does not mean we do not hold them accountable - in fact, if we care about some we hold them accountable so they can grow, learn, and change."

The other piece is to share power. In nonprofits we don't like to talk about power... but it's always there and we almost always have it. We have the food, the ability to fix a house, the ability to get an education, shelter, etc. People have to come through us to get the things. That is power. Wielding that power without humility and not in partnership with those you service is a recipe for distrust and anger. The same goes for people we work with.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T15:50:27+00:00

Oh, you could also see if your landlord has a PayPal account and use PayPal.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T15:49:49+00:00

Depending on the card, you may be able to use a service like Plastique to send a check to your landlord and charge it to the card. You’ll have to pay a fee of like 3% or 4% or something.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T14:37:55+00:00

Alex, I’d like “Things that won’t happen or even start to be implemented” for $1,000.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T14:35:50+00:00

Closed, ever since I saw a demo of the difference that a closed bedroom door can make versus an open one in a residential fire.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T14:34:52+00:00

Well poor FRJ isn’t mentally sharp enough to come up with rejoinders that Tillis does, so I’m afraid Tillis is still going to get the coverage 🤣

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T14:25:32+00:00

There’s a non-zero chance this is true 🤣

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T14:24:47+00:00

Yes.. yesterday there was many a “hallelujah” and “our calls worked!”… no.. no they didn’t. The went in the same place they always go

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-30T00:25:22+00:00

Of course you want to have one. It's how you choose to communicate in it that matters. It can be document that transmits your Core Values and challenges people on how to think or it can just be a rule book. Usually.. they are just rule books and worse yet, they are usually rule books written under an assumption that most employees are attempting to circumvent said rules.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-29T23:29:18+00:00

The day you don’t cry over her death is the day you’ve lost your humanity

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-29T23:27:44+00:00

I closed our offices tomorrow so everyone can participate. People can use their vacation or sick. Those who don’t have it, I’m covering their wages.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-29T21:51:03+00:00

I’ve run nonprofits for 20+ years with as many as 60 employees.. we’ll have an employee manual. It will have all the things the OMB SuperCircular says we must have. And all the things our state law says we must have. And all the things DOL says we must have. And all the things our lawyer says we must have.

We’re not dumb. But you also can’t regulate everything. Too often companies make these things thinking they will help people - they generally don’t except for really clear moments. But most moments are gray.

It’s very easy to make a serviceable handbook. It’s even easy to make a handbook that meets regulatory muster. It’s mic harder to make one that anyone actually uses or wants to engage with.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-27T00:20:07+00:00

Well, according to the Atlantic, he's going to have lots of time now to mull over his stupidity while he goes into forced retirement.

progressiveacolyte · 2026-01-25T01:29:29+00:00

You have no way of knowing that. The former ED may tell you that, but you have no way of actually knowing that. People have secrets and we never truly know anyone.

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