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lyornI had planned to spend a lot more time making music. I've become sadly out of practise over the last twentysomething years. Unfortunately, the least convenient of all possible worlds wants to come and play, too.
There's a week-long workshop next July that I'd really like to go to.
However, do you believe that by July next year CoViD-19 will be old news? I don't.
Know who does? The organisers of thist workshop. (And of many others. As in, it's the mission statement. They organise music workshops.) Not only do they not have a single line about handling the pandemic, about hygiene concepts, about what will happen if a week before the workshop such events are getting cancelled by law or regulation -- I have explicitely mailed them to ask, "how are you going to handle this", and they said, "no special rules, our TOS apply."
TOS do not consider that a workshop might NOT TAKE PLACE. (Yesh, optimistic. Seriously.) They only consider that someone might want to cancel their booking. In which case, they are between "10% plus whatever the event site charges" (if cancelling four weeks in advance) to "100%" (if a week in advance) in the hock. 700 Euros, in this case.
No special rules. Never in the last two years has happened it that meetings or plans had to get canned on three day's notice. Nothing that even needs to be considered.
Is it just me, or is that kind of weird?
There's a week-long workshop next July that I'd really like to go to.
However, do you believe that by July next year CoViD-19 will be old news? I don't.
Know who does? The organisers of thist workshop. (And of many others. As in, it's the mission statement. They organise music workshops.) Not only do they not have a single line about handling the pandemic, about hygiene concepts, about what will happen if a week before the workshop such events are getting cancelled by law or regulation -- I have explicitely mailed them to ask, "how are you going to handle this", and they said, "no special rules, our TOS apply."
TOS do not consider that a workshop might NOT TAKE PLACE. (Yesh, optimistic. Seriously.) They only consider that someone might want to cancel their booking. In which case, they are between "10% plus whatever the event site charges" (if cancelling four weeks in advance) to "100%" (if a week in advance) in the hock. 700 Euros, in this case.
No special rules. Never in the last two years has happened it that meetings or plans had to get canned on three day's notice. Nothing that even needs to be considered.
Is it just me, or is that kind of weird?
