Oakland hills on fire

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I'm not a member but my college roommate was/is?? I don't know if he is anymore. That place has a lot of history. I think the last time I was there was maybe 15 years ago for his daughters bday party. Sucks.

As long as no one is hurt, who cares.
Rich people doing rich things.

Wonder how many government subsidies they’ll get for rebuilding a historic site?

DWags wrote:I'm not a member but my college roommate was/is?? I don't know if he is anymore. That place has a lot of history. I think the last time I was there was maybe 15 years ago for his daughters bday party. Sucks.

Last time I was there was the 1985 U.S. Open. I got a weekend pass from this gal I dated. Pretty cool weekend for a 25 year-old shitforbrains.

Strictly from a golf fan perspective the amount of priceless memorabilia in they place had to be enormous.

Motown Spartan wrote:Dozens of upper class college aged cis males will be out of caddy jobs this summer.

What does working on a caddy have to do with being a caddie?

Dendrobates wrote:As long as no one is hurt, who cares.
Rich people doing rich things.

I think we’re forgetting all the service workers who are sick to their stomach right now because they made a semi decent living there. Members be damned. There are some good people out of jobs.

Got 1.4 million PPE loan as a non profit.....

DWags wrote:I'm not a member but my college roommate was/is?? I don't know if he is anymore. That place has a lot of history. I think the last time I was there was maybe 15 years ago for his daughters bday party. Sucks.

Don’t worry, DWags, he’s still your college roommate. Always will be. That can’t change.

DWags wrote:

Dendrobates wrote:As long as no one is hurt, who cares.
Rich people doing rich things.

I think we’re forgetting all the service workers who are sick to their stomach right now because they made a semi decent living there. Members be damned. There are some good people out of jobs.

Fair point. I wouldn't want that to hurt people. Would building insurance cover staff pay?

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Dendrobates wrote:

DWags wrote:

I think we’re forgetting all the service workers who are sick to their stomach right now because they made a semi decent living there. Members be damned. There are some good people out of jobs.

Fair point. I wouldn't want that to hurt people. Would building insurance cover staff pay?

Good question. I’m pretty sure you can pay for any kind of insurance. Them paying you if something happens might be different.

DWags wrote:

Dendrobates wrote:As long as no one is hurt, who cares.
Rich people doing rich things.

I think we’re forgetting all the service workers who are sick to their stomach right now because they made a semi decent living there.  Members be damned. There are some good people out of jobs.

My Dad was a member for 50 years and he would agree about the staff. Nobody member treated them better than Jack but so many asshole members did not.

He got the membership in 1969 as a perk to his job with ABC. He loved the golf course and the people who worked it. The members, not so much

Dendrobates wrote:

DWags wrote:

I think we’re forgetting all the service workers who are sick to their stomach right now because they made a semi decent living there.  Members be damned. There are some good people out of jobs.

Fair point. I wouldn't want that to hurt people. Would building insurance cover staff pay?

Insurance on the building would not.  Business interruption insurance does cover employee pay in this type of situation, but most business do not carry business interruption insurance (about 33% of small business do).

I worked for a national CPA firm early in my career and one of my audit clients was an exclusive country club.  Every single one of their full time wait staff made more money than I did.  DWags is right about a semi-decent living.

Reports saying it's an $80M loss. Not buying that number.

The Pantry wrote:Reports saying it's an $80M loss. Not buying that number.

Depends on the prices for their collectable collection.