No APSE thread?

our sports editor was going to go and take his family and pay for hotel, but the company wouldn't pay for his flight.

Which doesn't bother me because we've got a huge junior golf tournament going on this week, and he's the one covering it in 100-degree heat, not me.

 

In Vegas and StL, there were easily at least 200. Banquet room in MGM in 2006(?) was packed.

 

We're having an employee appreciation lunch at my 32K MG daily next week. Food for the day and night shift, so a lunch and dinner. Nowhere to put a ping pong table, though.

 

Approves of this idea ...

 

200 in St. Louis or Vegas is a very high estimate for registered members. (Maybe more people went to banquet, including student interns, non-registered spouses, etc.) APSE Bulletin story says the all-time high was 220 in Boston quite a while ago. Minneapolis last year had 112.

 

I'm not sure that the company higher-ups should be paying for travel out of their own pockets if it's business related. In fact, given that they bought a ping-pong table for the staff - I'd take that as a kind gesture.

 

There are at least two people from my state there, as both high level bosses from my paper are currently in the steel city

 

I freely admit my guesstimating skills are lacking.

But I do know the banquet rooms were huge in Vegas and pretty full, especially that one for the MMA discussion. And we probably had more people in the "Meet with AP's Terry Taylor" session than total people in Pittsburgh.

 

The ping pong table is a nice gesture I guess, but who in the hell has time to play?

 

Somebody in authority probably recalled reading about how the tech companies, back in the dot.com heyday, used to have stuff like that. Games for employees, a loosey-goosey atmosphere.

Probably messed up in assessing the cause-and-effect direction, though.

 

Just checked the schedule. Attendance is low because the Pirates are home.