Friday, December 28, 2007

You Heard It Here First...Sadly

Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million

Guess what - I'm starting to wonder whether I do have magic powers to predict the future (yeah, like common sense ;-)) - this blog, which has been going on for months about the notion that we have to cut emissions faster and harder than anyone has acknowledge turns out to have beaten even James Hansen and Bill McKibben to the punch. Why is it, I wonder, that my predictions are only right about things that suck?

"It means, Hansen says, that we've gone too far. "The evidence indicates we've aimed too high -- that the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2is no more than 350 ppm," he said after his presentation. Hansen has reams of paleo-climatic data to support his statements (as do other scientists who presented papers at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco this month). The last time the Earth warmed two or three degrees Celsius -- which is what 450 parts per million implies -- sea levels rose by tens of meters, something that would shake the foundations of the human enterprise should it happen again.

And we're already past 350. Does that mean we're doomed? Not quite. Not any more than your doctor telling you that your cholesterol is way too high means the game is over. Much like the way your body will thin its blood if you give up cheese fries, so the Earth naturally gets rid of some of its CO2each year. We just need to stop putting more in and, over time, the number will fall, perhaps fast enough to avert the worst damage.

That "just," of course, hides the biggest political and economic task we've ever faced: weaning ourselves from coal, gas and oil. The difference between 550 and 350 is that the weaning has to happen now, and everywhere. No more passing the buck. The gentle measures bandied about at Bali, themselves way too much for the Bush administration, don't come close. Hansen called for an immediate ban on new coal-fired power plants that don't capture carbon, the phaseout of old coal-fired generators, and a tax on carbon high enough to make sure that we leave tar sands and oil shale in the ground. To use the medical analogy, we're not talking statins to drop your cholesterol; we're talking huge changes in every aspect of your daily life.

Maybe too huge. The problems of global equity alone may be too much -- the Chinese aren't going to stop burning coal unless we give them some other way to pull people out of poverty. And we simply may have waited too long.

But at least we're homing in on the right number. Three hundred and fifty is the number every person needs to know."


McKibben is being cheery about the bad news, so I will be to. We've been given a huge and perhaps exciting challenge - how to entirely stop producing more industrial carbon emissions. And believe it or not, I've got a few ideas (doesn't she always you say, rolling your eyes ;-)).

Or rather, they are the same ideas. It turns out that Monbiot was far too conservative - he was trying to keep things at 450. This is going to require a fast and serious drop in our fossil energy use down to near 0. The fast part means we're going to have to prioritize - think hard about where we want to put our very limited carbon emissions. Building more renewables, keeping medical care and food supplies coming, enabling an educated populace - that's where they need to go, and that's where they should go.

I've been working on trying to create a model of life of some sort for a few years - not a perfect life. If I were perfect I would have had 1.5 kids, started before I was 30 and would be pedalling everywhere. But a model of an imperfect life in transition, making do with what I've got, the best I can. When I try and think about what my role in this is, it comes down to that - I'm an ordinary person, ordinarily selfish and cranky and lazy, greedy and flawed. So what I can do with my imperfect life, from my imperfect start, in my imperfect home with my limited funds and energies I believe others can do - or they will do it some other way and tell me, and I can tell others, so that there's one more model out there. It isn't a perfect solution, and maybe there's other work to be done that I should be doing. But maybe this is mine.

After we reallocate, our personal use is going to have to be done by our limited supply of renewables (that means we all get a little bit of energy to use) and our hands and feet, some animals and a complete change in our way of life. There is no model I've ever seen that enables us to do a very rapid (under a decade) build out of renewables, and keep the global economy going as is. We're simply entering uncharted territory. If we become serious about this, everything is going to change.

And everything will remain the same - we'll still be the people we are. We'll still care about the things we care about most - the people we love, keeping people healthy, cared for and fed, giving our kids a decent education, having good and honorable work to do. We'll do different work, different play, live different lives, but we'll still be us, and the things we always say we really care about - those will still be the things we can have.

We can do this. We have to, but more, we can.

Sharon

40 comments:

Theresa said...

I too know we can, but I despair as to how to get our politicians to really hear that we MUST.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link. I've posted to my journal as well.

Anonymous said...

I hate to sound pesimistic- and it's not that I'm not trying to do my best and spread the word to others- but we are not going to get anywhere with this- or fast enough- if the vast majority of people are concentrating on other things be they making money, selling lots of stuff, vacationing, scoring a Wii, whatever. Our political leaders aren't there, our corporations are mostly involved in greenwashing at best, and scattered amongst all of this are those who are really trying. Again, I'm not sure what it will take for this great awakening to happen. Most people who are at all aware of climate change and peak oil are still waiting for the great techno-fix to arise that will leave us all continuing our lives as we know it while driving some cool plug-in electric car that's roomy and goes from 0-60 in a snap. Sorry- that's my take on this, cynical as it may seem. It doesn't mean I'm not trying- I've not given up-but again I don't see how this is going to happen in time......

I guess that I'd also have to see how frustrating I find it- I've had my one child, grow organic, live off-grid, drive a small efficient car and try to minimize my driving, take a bus when possible, don't fly, heat with wood-the works- not perfect but I'm trying- and I know darn well that my efforts aren't worth much overall until I'm joined by the majority of others- most of whom are blissfully using up resources and spewing carbon emissions with abandon.....

So in the event they'd like to join me, I'd be happy for the "company" and am living proof that cutting way back doesn't preclude having a satisfying life- but I don't see much interest in anything that resembles "sacrifice" of life as they know it- yes I know you're doing this Sharon, and Colin is, and GreenPa and a bunch of you who read these blogs- but do you realize how few in # we are on this earth?

Anonymous said...

Ani,

I agree. There are plenty of folks talking, but very few doing. At this point, the scientists have done a good job at defining the crisis. The Al Gores have done a good job at raising awareness. What we need now is for the same attention to be given to the ordinary folks who have made the radical adjustments necessary to live earth-kind lives. We may be few in number, but those examples are critically important right now.

Building Gypsy Rose

Shaunta said...

It starts with a few and it grows. It has to. Eventually a tipping point will be met and then the majority will at least be aware. The best we can do is continue to try to help that point be reached. If everyone who worried that what they could do wasn't enough, and so did NOTHING, did as much as Ani instead, think of the impact!

Shaunta

Anonymous said...

Sharon, thank you for the link. I already sent it to my e-mail list.

I can relate to Ani's sentiments and I'm not giving up either.

The verdict is in -- once again. The science is clear. We have to embrace a sustainable and regenerative lifestyle NOW!

As the most opulent society in the history of humanity, we must reduce our footprint on the planet NOW. We have got to stop flying and driving, or at least reduce these to a minimum; stop eating industrial foods and animals; start growing our food and eating more plant-based and local foods; eliminate or reduce to a minimum usage of air-conditioning, water, fuels, etc.

The corrupt system so dependent on our over-consumptive ways would implode if we did not support it.

It is up to us!

Peace!

~Vegan/Leaving So. FL

Anonymous said...

I accidentally added this comment to another post.

Sadly Sharon, many of your predictions are likely to be seen to fruition...

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN2634820320071226?pageNumber=4&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

Tina

Anonymous said...

Maybe we're not trying hard enough to reach people? I don't mean just preaching, but things like advocating for changed dress codes where we work, making things available for people for free or cash, putting our volunteer work into things like weatherproofing and teaching kids to grow food. Running a CSA means your production decisions are other people's eating habits. So does running a restaurant, a repair shop (I have to go *way* out of my usual biking distance to get shoes repaired), a resale store, a Freecycle list, or a community education class on any of a wide variety of skills.

I decided a long time ago that instead of searching for a "right livelihood" I would keep working corporate jobs and funnel time and money into good stuff from there...but lately (since I started working full time, really) I think that might not have been the right choice.

RAS said...

Well, the good news is that thanks to PO being past and Peak Coal on the near horizon, people won't have much choice but to cut back soon. Powerdown is coming will-we nill-we. And probably the collapse of industrial society with it.

Do you happen to know how the Natural Gas grid is holding up this winter? Kuntsler wrote sometime back about how the last bad winter we had (several years ago) almost caused the NG grid to go down, and that supplies were now so critical the next bad winter -which is clearly here -might do it. But I can't find any info on how supplies are doing.

Hanley Tucks said...

Monbiot's original target of 350ppm came from the most recent IPCC report at the time. He has since updated his target to account for more recent changes.

To avoid "catastrophic climate change" which will come with temperature rises of 2C and over, the IPCC says we need to reduce to about 537kg of CO2e emissions each by 2050.

That's not much CO2e for us. If you look at the figures for what causes how much emissions, you find that petrol use is impossible, as is conventionally-farmed meat production, getting electricity from coal and so on. Basically you need to reduce electricity use and change to using power from wind turbines, travel only on mass transit, and eat only food produced locally with no fossil fuel inputs. Nope, "organic" food ain't good enough - they use tractors to farm the fields, and trucks to move the food to the markets.

However, it's worth bearing in mind that this reduction to 537kg or so, the IPCC doesn't expect it to be instant. They're saying, "if we reduce from where we are now (3,580kg) to there (537kg) by 2050, then we'll avoid catastrophic climate change. If not, then we're toast."

It's a bit like saying to a seven year old that to graduate high school, she needs to pass differential calculus and French. That seems impossible to a seven year old, but ten years later it doesn't seem so bad.

Likewise, for us to achieve just half a tonne of emissions, when the world as a whole does seven times that, and Australia and the US do fifty times that, well that seems impossible. But to do it 42 years is not so hard.

Of course, the child has to go to school for about half the year for ten years to manage it. If she can't do simple addition and subtraction now, she's never going to even reach the calculus class. Sure, "two and two is four" is a long way from calculus. But she has to start somewhere.

In the same way, we've got to do some basic reductions in our lives. Sure, turning off appliances when not in use, taking the train and eating less meat, they're not much, and it's a long way from that big change we really do need. But we've got to start somewhere.

Anonymous said...

Well that's a good point, in that we find it overwhelming to look at reaching our emissions goal overnight but if we take it in steps we can see that it could be possible.And I don't discount the gains made when people do the incremental steps, be it changing bulbs or driving less. I just don't see us as a world making the preparations needed for not only everyone doing these steps but the world as a whole doing the larger pieces that need to happen.

I know from playing around with various on-line calculators- both eco-footprint and carbon emissions, that the biggest contributor by far to both my footprint and emissions is my driving. But I've reduced it to what I reasonably can given my situation living in a rural area. I've come to realize that unless I can find a way to earn a living from home-and even farming as I do p/t still requires getting the produce to a market- and unless I am willing to basically stay here alone- not a healthy thing to do day after day as I live alone- winter especially- esentially I would be totally marginalized both financially and socially- and although I can and do live on a low income, the property taxes are a real issue here.... So I think that until we find a way as communities to solve the issue of needing to always drive someplace- it is impossible or at least very difficut for an individual or family to surmount the obstacles to make as much headway as needed on this.

So although my footprint is way lower than most in this country, it's not low enough- and unless/until I can deal with the car/transportation issue, I can't get it any lower. So it seems to me that we desperately need to provide some sort of infrastucture- be it transportation, social or employment- likely all three, in order to make headway on this. Individuals can find a way to go off-grid or decrease their elec. use to minimal amounts, grow food or buy locally grown, consume less, recycle, heat with wood if possible, the works- but these other issues are the real biggies....

TH in SoC said...

I first learned about Peak Oil in February of this year. What I learned eventually motivated me to relocate from Southern California to Oregon in September of this year. Now that I'm here, I have several questions:

1. How does one sustainably heat a house (albeit a small house) without generating a lot of CO2 in a place where it seems to rain all the time?

2. How does one dry clothes in a place where clotheslines can't be used very often?

3. I have a developmentally disabled relative who still lives in California. How does one find care options for a developmentally disabled adult relative in a state like Oregon which does not have a very strong social system for providing care for developmentally disabled people?

There are many more questions, but these are the most urgent for me right now. Thanks!

Anonymous said...

To the poster above, I can't help on questions 1 and 3, but we have the same problem with no dryer, no clothesline, no yard, and plenty of rain. We use drying racks indoors, placed near a heat source if need be. I don't recommend flimsy ones with plastic parts as they break. We've had good luck with all wood ones and the very capacious and study metal one Ikea makes.

Anonymous said...

To Th in Soc:

I live where it's arid, but we don't dry our laundry outdoors because it's usually windy and dusty, and the laundry would dry sure enough, but need a re-wash!

We occasionally use an indoor drying rack such as this: http://tinyurl.com/238r8d
but only when we need extra drying space, since it takes up nearly our whole living space (in a really tiny house). Normally we dry clothes using a line strung along the bedroom wall: http://tinyurl.com/2clrs3 plus the shower rod and one of these: http://tinyurl.com/2slpvz in the bathroom.

Sue
Western Great Basin

Anonymous said...

Ani, a lot of the changes we need to make are structural changes - I don't drive much, compared to other Americans. But we have this great big house and it takes a lot of energy to heat. It's going to take us at least a few years to get out from under this house.

Sometimes I feel like I'm living completely contrary to my beliefs. I believe we need to do carbon reduction...but my partner doesn't want to invest money in the house because we're planning on moving, and I see that...I want to not travel so much...but I want my son to be close to his wider family...and I don't want to live where the rest of our family lives, either. So I'm not really following through on my beliefs like I want to. It's painful sometimes. Yet, I do value all these other things (my partners comfort/buy-in level, my family, having a cash reserve which we'd lose if we sold our house right now).

I'm starting to think it's another part of the transition pain, like the effort involved in changing habits.

Anyway, what I wanted to suggest is that if you can do something like host winter guests for weeks instead of days, or find a place in town to stay during the week and just go home during the weekends in winter...it really depends on your responsibilities and resources, but there are things you can do to *reduce* how often you drive, without eliminating your car dependence.

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Anonymous said...

Rosa-

I think that many of us are trying to figure it out- and we have to work with what we've got to work with basically. In my case I heat with wood and live in the far north-thus can't be away in winter-so this creates its own issues. Obviously if I could work from home and if my community were really interested in getting together more- not just a few times/year- it could be different. Also- where I live most everyone has a looong drive to work- 1 1/2 hrs one way or more in some cases- but no attempt to car-pool even- this could be different. I think that what it comes down to is that most people are invested in their nuclear families and community is an extra- when they have time for it. We won't see real change unless/until it becomes too hard for people to continue doing what they're doing in my opinion( for what that's worth.....)

th: re; the question on heating and laundry- wood heat is considered to be ok and renewable- and if you use drying racks-wash stuff often so you don't have huge amounts of it or use a retractable clothesline indoors- it dries well I find. I wash my clothes my hand year-round- and dry outdoors on the line when I can and indoors when I can't- mostly works- the main thing is to get stuff to dry fast enough so it doesn't get mildewy.....blech...

I don't pick a cloudy/rainy/showy day to do sheets or blankets for instance- got to be flexible- no "Monday is wash day" here...

jewishfarmer said...

I should clarify - I think we will do a massive ramp down, one way or another, but I don't think that political will will be gathered in any way other than response to a disaster we simply can't write off. My bet, however, is that that will come soon - perhaps even soon enough, horribly. Given that we wrote off Katrina, the British floods, etc... I shudder to think about what that would look like, but I think it will probably happen.

Sharon

Anonymous said...

Sharon-

I too despair at what level of disaster would be necessary to actually get people's attention- but keeping their attention focused seems to really be the issue. The disaster of the moment be it CA wildfires, Katrina or whatever are on the front pages of the paper and on the TV for a short while and then they are replaced by the latest celebrity gossip or sports or whatever. People seem to have such short attention spans. And then there is the issue of not having the disaster actually directly affect you- the old joke about how a recession is when your neighbor loses his job and a depression is when you lose yours isn't too far off I'd say.

Have a Happy New Year anyway-

Anonymous said...

I have read you blog for a while and find it very useful. The sad fact is that most people won't make significant changes in lifestyle until circumstances force it. Most of my acquaintances are tired of hearing (from me) about peak oil. They think it is loony and won't take it seriously until there are gas lines. Sharon, you are preaching to the choir but then we in the choir really appreciate it.

Anonymous said...

Rosa said:

Ani, a lot of the changes we need to make are structural changes - I don't drive much, compared to other Americans. But we have this great big house and it takes a lot of energy to heat. It's going to take us at least a few years to get out from under this house.


I have wondered what will happen to all the very large houses housing approx 3 people.

Of all the houses being forclosed how many are large, med, small?

I have also read that banks loose money on forclosures (I had assumed they at least broke even).

So as Sharon has mentioned before what about renting rooms? What about officially changing some portion into an apt? I know some zoning laws forbid making apt but they need not know about room renters :).

Also why don't banks just reduce the monthly morgage on some of these houses. From what I've read they'd loose less than forclosing.

I guess my house is med but if I cleaned out my basement :) I could house quite a few more folks either in a traditional way or dormitory style if the shtf and too many friends and family showed up.

I am begining to feel some urgency to prepare my house for others. Such as:
room in basement for usable furniture (lots of furniture there if one could find it).

I'd like one of those cold rooms one can build in a basement, its like a root cellar but is simply a walled off space (with window)open or close window to keep cool.

Thow some paint on some walls for pretty :)in main house.

Fix one really ugly bathroom.

We already are out of dept, live and work on a farm (CSA) have a wood stove .

Beth in Massachusetts

A few extra hands might be good :)

Anonymous said...

Beth, we always had roomates until last year, between one and three other adults. I just can't cope with the extra work of being a landlord, on top of having a toddler and a fulltime job. Which is why we're aiming for a smaller house. Living with people requires a set of skills and competencies that take effort to learn and practice, and I'm just about out of effort.

Also, our house is old (1902) - no closets, one bathroom, and cold (57 degrees) and on a corner lot (lots and lots and lots of shoveling. There's no attached garage. Our neighborhood is racially mixed (I like to think you'd be as amazed as I was how many people think of this as a negative) and living here means living with a family with a toddler. We usually interviewed 10-15 people before we found a good enough fit, and none of those turned into relationships of more than about a year.

With rents down from a peak in 2001 or so, the pool of competent, sane people looking for cheap housing is smaller, and we just don't meet most of their standards - we are *way* too mainstream for the activist/traveler kids, and way too weird for the people who call up and ask "would I be safe walking in from my car at night in THAT NEIGHBORHOOD?"

So I think the answer for us is to move. But we aren't moving anytime soon, in this housing market there are some cosmetic repairs we have to do just to sell. Also, we do have to worry about the economy pushing the neighborhood downhill - we're already starting to see boarded-up houses.

Anonymous said...

In the long term there will probably losers and winners in the global warming etc shakeout. Agriculture originally happened during a period of intense cold and dry when it was a way to hang on in marginal climates, then when things got warmer and moister again it expanded out into the empty and newly fertile habitats. A further warming and moistening may see agriculture expand into regions where it wasnt possible before. Population levels will change, but we don't really know what the limit on human population is. It was expanding before the industrial and green revolutions, they may have just speeded up the rate of growth rather than changing the absolute carrying capacity. Agriculture is a very different beast now from what it was hundreds of years ago. Apart from all the recent technology just having a much wider range of crop species from all over the world makes it a more resilient system than it was before medieval times. And as much as many people fear it genetic modification may eventually lead to a whole different way of existing in the world, even changing who we are in fundamental and surprising ways.

So I don't despair, because we wont know what is going to happen until it has happened. In the mean time though industrial society is looking shaky, so make some alternate plans. But be prepared to be surprised to some extent.

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5.來這行的消費者主力 多為28~45歲左右 因此他們看女人的角度是不同的 因此打扮還是多少花時間去調整喔

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2019.10.30知名酒店經紀調查酒店上班顯示,2019年酒店工作酒店打工有將近7成的上班族有意願酒店兼差在八大行業擔任酒店兼職坐檯小姐或打工,其中在中山區林森北路以及忠孝東路上的便服店酒店兼職的有(54.6%),比在白天正職的比例(29.8%)更高。進一步女大學生、上班族詢問未來想投入八大行業酒店兼差的比例達到7成3,其中想在八大行業擔任酒店小姐兼職有(17.8%),想擔任正職的有(23.9%)。知名酒店打工專業指出產業來進行交叉分析,結果發現,目前在傳產製造業的上班族想在八大行業兼職酒店小姐的比例最高,而服務業想投入兼職酒店小姐擔任正職的比例最高。主要的原因包括對客人買全場接S(性交易)額外收入感到有興趣(32.3%)想為未來事業多認識企業的大老闆(29%)、喜歡跟人相處(30%)以及酒店工作機會多(31%)、酒店工時彈性(16.5%)等原因。

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2019.12.04台北市知名酒店經紀公司近期正在尋找酒店工作,或有意在公家機關內上班的人請注意,台北市政府依各轄內機關酒店上班人力需求,近期有66個機關釋出150個約聘僱酒店打工人員職缺。但因各酒店兼差需求人力職務、業務不同,因此薪資落差不小。例如北市府資訊局釋出的聘用高級研究員職缺,其月薪依學經歷,最高可達新台幣70000元,但台北市制服店、便服店、禮服店、鋼琴酒吧、日式酒店、飯局、傳播等服務員職缺,月薪僅給70000元。此次北市八大行業約聘僱人員招募自即日起~酒店兼職12月9日(週一)止受理報名,預計12月14日(週六)、12月15日(週日)舉辦甄試。

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2020.02.11
生平成就
(2005年):
一個剛出道的酒店經紀梁曉尊,時間背景正於八大行業的戰國時代,群雄割據⋯人人都是幹部、人人都是經紀人,在這麼競爭的環境裡脫穎而出。再千百人之內披荊斬棘、越戰越勇,不斷的創造機會闖出自己的名堂,不少資深前輩認為梁曉尊潛在未來有影響力的人物不容小覷。

(2007年):
梁曉尊已「十八路令諸侯」集結16家中小型經紀公司全力投入支持某家酒店,當時以梁曉尊做為搖旗的領頭羊成為這間酒店駐點主要核心的酒店經紀,資深酒店前輩指出:該店的酒店小姐人數梁曉尊就佔了三分之二,也幫助該店的業者達到最高峰,也因為如此梁曉尊打出漂亮的戰役,展現出各方面資源、才華、構想、以及強烈的企圖心。

(2009年):
當時網路媒體還不是很盛行,智慧型手機也沒有很普遍。梁曉尊是八大行業裡第一位主張「網路行銷事業」開創人。此時不少資深前輩不看好,理由網路世界不切實際,畢竟虛擬世界可信度不高,缺乏真實性沒有說服力,這番遠見根本是好高騖遠、天方夜譚⋯等等評論!。於是梁曉尊堅持照著自己主張的開始經營Google 搜尋關鍵字先從自己名字創造舞台。可如今Google成為人們生活上必備工具不管是搜尋、查詢、求證、等等各方面⋯都被梁曉尊所預料到。

(2011年):
Google 搜尋:梁曉尊/梁小尊。獲得亞洲地區Google認證關鍵字達到全版面。不僅如此⋯八大行業主要關鍵字(酒店工作)、(酒店上班)、(酒店經紀)、(酒店打工)、(酒店應徵)、(酒店兼差)、(酒店兼職)每組關鍵字都在首頁榮獲前3名。

(2013年):
合併3大資深酒店經紀的股權,創立「JUE人力發展公司」掌握中央執行權,梁曉尊親自操刀編制6大部門:(開發部、管理部、人事部、網路媒體部、會計部、發展部)融入梁曉尊本職學能的技術「企業管理學」、「國際經濟學」建立八大行業與眾不同經營之道。有資深酒店前輩透露創立這間公司在內部高層梁曉尊是排行老四,圈內都稱他「四爺」、「小四」⋯是目前市場上新生代來說最年輕也最有實力的一號人物。
坊間流傳梁曉尊的小姐人數有高達120位以上⋯。

(2015年):
梁曉尊發動「台北之變」,事件導致影響北部八大行業酒店小姐薪資價格大翻轉。由於梁曉尊給1節190元,打破市場行情價,同時揭發很多經紀公司黑暗管理酒店小姐的秘密一併揭露出來例如:逼小姐簽合約、老二經紀控制法、毒品控制⋯等等!。於是讓有些操作不人道的黑心經紀公司、小經紀、各人經紀等⋯頓時崩盤甚至無法生存離開八大行業。資深酒店人士指出:圈內對於梁曉尊發動「台北之變」也是藉時讓台北地區八大行業重新洗牌。有些人認為誠實面對這個社會現實就是如此適者生存。因此圈內人士對於此事件又稱為梁曉尊「北梁軍閥」這個名號!名稱來自於 🔍台(北)⋯(梁)曉尊⋯(軍閥:代表一方梟雄的意思)這樣而來的。

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2020.04.04酒店工作印象中的和現實面有很大落差嗎?
現實和酒店上班印象中當然有很大的落差啊
因為我們一般收到酒店打工訊息 大都是從電影報章雜誌而來
而會有新聞報導價值的酒店PT新聞 通常是很特別很誇張的 這些新聞報導也許是有些接近酒店上班事實 但不是八大行業全部
(就如同捷運上有電車痴漢 但不是每班車隨時隨地有色狼啊 我們也常安全到家啊)
加上一般人的想法 這行總是只有負面 (當便利商店店員也會遇到砍人強劫)
其實凡事都有負面啊 端看自己怎麼面對
這行雖然不是賺錢最好的方式之一 但卻是最快的方式之一
我們只建議多了解多比較 看完環境 再做決定
別人只說這行的美好 但我們強調得失之間 去創造自己想要的生活
給自己一次機會 跨出第一步 若自覺不適合這行 就盡早打消夢幻的念頭 趕緊找其他出路 不是嗎??

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2020.06.11前新北市議員李婉鈺日前在節目中透露酒店小姐的基本介紹跟工作內容,她30歲時曾和一名斯文富二代有過婚約,當時我在酒店上班的日子已經認定彼此是要走一輩子的人,沒想到訂完婚後,對方卻背著她把酒店小姐帶回新房過夜,事後連一句道歉也沒有,讓她對這段感情心死,決定解除婚約。 李婉鈺在節目《不敢來酒店上班-酒店打工的原因單身行不行》透露,她30歲時曾經訂過婚,男方是一名大她9歲的富二代,從事酒店上班-酒店兼職-兼差如何達成人生的第一桶金建築室內設計方面的工作,事業穩定且家世相當好,兩人認識3個月就決定結婚。當時男方很貼心地把求婚及結婚的東西都準備好,不僅安排酒店兼差不是一個複雜的工作環境?楊凡導演幫忙拍攝照片,就連婚紗也是用知名品牌,所有東西都選最好的,她什麼事都不用操心,職場須知 【酒店PT 】只要人到場就好。李婉鈺說,兩人訂完婚後,某次男方說要去酒店參加朋友替他舉辦的告別單身派對,而她也沒有多想,很放心地讓對方出門。沒想到隔天送養肝茶給男方喝時,對方卻一直不開門、也不接電話,讓她越想越不對勁,於是乾脆站在門口守株待兔,從早上等到傍晚,直到外傭回來幫忙開門,一個女生突然從屋子裡衝出來,把她撞開後迅速離開現場,她才知自己被男方背叛,對方居然把酒店小姐帶到兩人的新房過夜。 李婉鈺透露,當時男方沒有解釋、也沒有感到抱歉,只是站在屋內對著她說「妳到底想要幹什麼?」讓她瞬間崩潰心死,什麼話也沒說就轉身離去,「哀莫大於心死,我覺得已經沒救了」,之後她也把婚戒退還給對方並解除婚約,放棄了這段感情。 李婉鈺說,「我後來輾轉知道他晚上都玩得很瘋狂,我就去拜託他身邊的好朋友,說拜託你們帶我去他常常去的酒店,然後叫他常常叫的酒店小姐出來,我想要知道她們到底哪裡好,我為什麼比不上她們」。事後還有媽媽桑向她透露,男方是酒店的常客,每次一定會帶一個女生回去,酒後還會做出失控舉動,讓李婉鈺不禁直呼,「很慶幸我那時候還沒有踏入婚姻這一步,就只是訂婚而已」。

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2020.09.08【酒店小姐】【酒店公關】不敢來酒店上班-酒店打工的原因網紅「游彤葳wei」因用女性視角來分析男女感情,而獲得許多粉絲支持。日前她邀請曾擔任酒店經紀的好友來分享酒店小姐的基本介紹跟工作內容,一般人不會知道的酒店潛規則,說著她也自曝大學期間曾被騙去酒店擔任過領檯,還被扣押證件,獨特經驗掀起酒店小姐酒店公關酒店上班到底都在做麼?網友熱議。游彤葳日前在影片中打電話給畢業後在酒店擔任經紀的同學,對方先是透露:「我都是帶禮服跟便服的店,我沒有帶制服。」接著向游彤葳wei解釋酒店小姐分為「便服、禮服、制服」三大類型,其中便服是最高級的,所以可以穿著便服上班,「只要她覺得好看,客人可以『框』她就好」,而「框」的意思就是可以把小姐帶出去一整天。而禮服就是一排小姐會穿上華麗造型,制服小姐素質則參差不齊,需要在包廂內跟客人聊天,等音樂一下就直接在客人身上熱舞、脫衣服,在第二首音樂響起時,就會直接進行「特殊服務」。而酒店經紀如何跟小姐拆帳也決定了雙方的收入高低,如果小姐每10分鐘賺200元,經紀從中抽50元,厲害的經紀平均一天收入是15000元。也因為收入高得嚇人,脫離需要很大意志力。游彤葳也自曝過去有在酒店擔任過領檯的經驗,一開始真的是單純的領檯工作,酒店也聲稱這是「正經的工作」,但在接待兩組客人後,游彤葳跟朋友開始感覺不對勁,起初酒店方還扣留她們證件不還,好在堅決表示離去的意願後,酒店並未進一步刁難,才讓她們平安脫身。

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2020.09.23【酒店小姐】【酒店公關】的基本介紹跟工作內容讓對方主動接近的密技這種酒店小姐具備了極高的專業精神,因為她們意識到酒店酒店上班小姐上班只有趁年輕的時候才能多賺一點,不敢來酒店上班-酒店打工的原因並確實達到店內的業績標準,酒店兼差不是一個複雜的工作環境?時常將薪酬的最高標準銘記在心。反觀,如果你因為酒店小姐給你聯絡方式,感到沾沾自喜,那麼你可能會受到她要求同行或出遊的攻勢,【酒店小姐】【酒店公關】短時間內就賠光自己的積蓄,然後再被她拋棄。斷絕金錢往來,也代表雙方緣分到了盡頭,千萬不要由愛生恨,變成恐怖的跟蹤狂。酒店內是男女偽裝戀愛的舞台,為了要追求專業酒店小姐,客人必須建立一套自己的「虛擬世界」,以對抗店家或酒店小姐的「虛擬世界」,這才是最快速的捷徑。這是因為酒店提供了男性美夢般的環境,男客人也可以反過來給酒店小姐一個美好的夢。若是拚命不斷地去酒店消費,只會被人看作是心術不正的「金主」。店小姐甚至會有兩支手機,一支工作用,一支私人用。專業的小姐與白天也很忙碌的兼職小姐不同,她們看準可能成為「金主」的客人,願意花自己的下班時間來經營關係。為了避免對方要求同行或出遊,你可以偽造某IT企業的公司負責人名片,假裝自己很忙碌的樣子。記得不要對酒店小姐露出色瞇瞇的表情,要讓她看見你紳士般的風采,絕對不要顯露洋洋得意的態度。之所以穿西裝,是因為可以製造「制服效果」。精緻的包包或鞋子不用說了,一定是基本配備,至於會在酒店小姐面前拿出來的皮夾,也必須精心準備。為了取得信任而亮出來給對方看的錢,至少也要十萬日圓的鈔票,把皮夾塞得滿滿的。這樣的小動作,就能讓具備專業的酒店小姐眼神為之一亮。這麼一來,你只要扮演好能夠讓酒店小姐不把你當成「一般客人」、而是有機會發展成朋友或戀人的角色,就能輕鬆實現從下班約會直接升級成上賓館的計畫。回頭來看,你如果頻繁去店裡消費、每月投入二、三十萬日圓,但只要被認定為「一般客人」,是無法成功追求到對方的。你應該要把錢花在自己所扮演的角色上。用這個方式來追求的話,攻陷人氣第一名的酒店小姐有如囊中取物。不過也要提醒一件事,當你隔天見到酒店小姐的素顏時,希望你不會因為好像看到另一個人而嚇得腿都軟了。然後,你可以用穿西裝不打領帶的爽朗姿態,在酒店即將打烊之際走進店裡,高貴地邀請她一起吃飯,「在六本木有家藝人投資的酒吧,是我朋友開的,方便的話要不要一起去呢?」目標是要在她的下班時間成功邀約。