 Poster: A snowHead
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| cathy wrote: |
Why is this thread here? What has it to do with skiing? Perhaps it can be moved to the Apres Zone? Please?  |
Better still back to the ski club chatroom.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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cathy, Not a problem. Could you please give the removals men the directions - there's a fair bit of office equipment and memorabilia involved.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| cathy wrote: |
| Why is this thread here? What has it to do with skiing? Perhaps it can be moved to the Apres Zone? Please? |
the reason it's here is because David thinks he can regain some popularity by engaging in a bit of ski club bashing.
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I think they should take it down brick by brick and move it to Hartlepool.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Tim Brown wrote: |
| PhillipStanton, don't be silly, your house if worth something to you. You live in it and it appreciates in value. This is why property is such a good investment. You're other points are questionable too. |
You take a homeowner's view of property rather than a commercial view.
I live in a house. It's worth £200k, say.
A homeowner's view is that if I sell I'll have to buy somewhere else to live.
A commercial view is that one might be able to rent out the propery for more than the cost of renting elsewhere. Or that selling and moving to a cheaper location might release some of the capital for investment in other ways.
If the Clubhouse is to be treated as an asset then the correct thing for any business to do, especially a membership based one, is to periodically consider whether there are better value alternatives available.
Otherwise it's an asset in accounting terms only.
From the perspective of most members, the operation of the Club would be no different if it were located in Aviemore, Carlisle, Birmingham or Little Twaddlefford.
We'll agree to disagree Tim Brown.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Smokin Joe, Hartlepool is too good fot them lot.
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cathy - you're right.
I must be in a ranting mood today. Must be the weather.
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PhillipStanton, the Club has a new treasurer (quite a rare change) as of last November, so maybe your points have already been considered.
I quite agree with those who've noted that the trend is away from physical location as an imperative, towards online services and - of course - postal delivery of membership benefits. As long as the Club has an administrative centre it must obviously be practical to attract and retain staff.
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PhillipStanton, spot on.
A lot of SCGB activities are outsourceable (if there is such a word). Membership packs and the like are ideal for this. Taking holiday bookings doesn't actually require a desk... many highly successful booking services use homeworkers - often that means getting the best qualified staff but who may not want to relocate or who have young families. So, by my reckoning SCGB could get away with a very compact HQ set up and, the other thing not yet considered, is that it wouldn't need to be in the UK. Surely the alps would be a better place. Sell the property, spend some on technology, invest the rest, reinvent itself into something more funky and put DG in charge. You know it all makes sense.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| ... put DG in charge. |
They do that at the BBC, and I've noticed that people like Terry Wogan constantly mock the DG.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
A lot of SCGB activities are outsourceable (if there is such a word). |
Indeed, I am hiring a team of Indians to do next years skiing on my behalf. They can do it for a fraction of what it would cost me and it leaves me free to do other things.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Latchigo wrote: |
| Bode Swiller wrote: |
A lot of SCGB activities are outsourceable (if there is such a word). |
Indeed, I am hiring a team of Indians to do next years skiing on my behalf. They can do it for a fraction of what it would cost me and it leaves me free to do other things. |
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| Latchigo wrote: |
| Bode Swiller wrote: |
A lot of SCGB activities are outsourceable (if there is such a word). |
Indeed, I am hiring a team of Indians to do next years skiing on my behalf. They can do it for a fraction of what it would cost me and it leaves me free to do other things. |
That's got to be the perfect answer to DG's problem with global warming. We hire locals to go skiing for us and save all that silly back and forth flying malarky.
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You know it makes sense.
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David Goldsmith, The Ski Club of England
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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oldsnowie, there is a ski club of Scotland. It has about 1200 members. The scgb has 1200 members living in Scotland according to the last report.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Tim Brown, we are a generous bunch – keeping two clubs going 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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More to the point why can't TB and DG just argue on SCL ?
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I think the Goldilodge is what it should be called now 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I must resist, I must resist.... 
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