At Last: Alerus Critics are Responsible for Sucktastic Alerus Concerts Failing
Yesterday I posted on the Alerus Gang’s pathetic attempt to misdeceive the public about how the Britney Concert brought in so much money that it didn’t matter how much money the concert lost. Since then I’ve enjoyed participating in the comments to that thread.
Apparently some of the commenters got under Tami P’s skin.
I’m curious to know how many of you constant nay-sayers have ever bought a ticket to one of the events that you gripe about? For the Alerus Center – or any other business for that matter – to be successful, it requires patronage. Plain and simple. Every business that I can think of has their customers as their main focus and they conduct their business in a way that they feel is the biggest benefit to the most people.
So it’s our fault that the Alerus’s sucktastic concerts never fill up because we don’t do our part. I guess Tami thinks we owe it to the Alerus Gang to buy tickets to every crappy concert that they hold, according to here.
That is so pathetic. If the Alerus can’t get acts that are going to sell enough tickets to pay for the “artist” then they shouldn’t hold that concert. After all we’re not the ones that made all kinds of grandiose promises and held ourselves out to be experts. That was the Alerus gang.
Apparently Tami P. has an hard time understanding business. She must think that businesses own the customers. In fact the businesses that are successful work hard to offer their customers what they want. She sure doesn’t sound like somebody who’s got to justify her job in the marketplace everyday.
Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe we’re deficient and don’t appreciate the many talents of Britney Spears. After all, according to the Herald review Britney’s a heck of a lip syncer. She struts around on stage and does hair tosses. She’s start a lap dance for a guy then cut him loose.
I’d like to see any of you try to manage a building like the Alerus Center for a year and see just how easy it is. You have all these “answers” about how the Alerus Center should be run but I’m willing to bet you wouldn’t be able to handle any of it. Imagine if your job was under constant scrutiny from the public all the time, if you had the city, a commission and a management company to report your every move to. The point is, you make the decisions that seem best at the time. No matter what, there will always be people who aren’t happy and complain.
Really this is all too bad. It’s not that people in the private sector have bosses or have the owners of their company watch their job.
The Alerus is so badly mismanaged that it’s obvious that the oversight is worthless. Just think the Alerus commission hurried up and extended the management company’s contract for five years right before the disastrous Britney concert. It sure doesn’t sound to me like they are worried about any kind of performance.
I was going to blog on that by my overseers were watching so I waited until I got home from work. It gets even better. Tami was right back at it.
You know what? I don’t care whether or not the Alerus makes money. It is an event center,
I guess I’d like Tami to explain why it is that my money should go to subsidize a Britney spears concert. Now the Alerus gang is still hiding the figures (and the executive director is in hiding), but I think it will be around $300,000. It was reported that Britney got paid around $750,000. That would mean that we had to subsidize 40% of the concert ticket.
Also in her rant Tami said something about having “hope” that events will be successful. I’d like to remind Tami that EVERY event at the Alerus is turning out to be a loser. It’s time to stop “hoping” and do something about the awful mismanagement at the Alerus.
If you take the REA out of the picture because 1.) it’s highly unusual that a town of this size has 2 arenas that you could literally fit the entire population of GF/EGF, into and 2.) it was privately funded by a donation so isn’t subject to this public scrutiny, what would you have? The Empire Arts Center, the Fritz, and the Civic perhaps. The same people who write these comments would then be complaining that there’s nothing to do, that they’re sick of driving to Fargo to see a concert or go to a sport show or whatever,
Excuse me, Tami. Why would you throw out the REA from your considerations of what the town would have without the Alerus just because it was built with private money. The fact is if the Alerus gang hadn’t been so pig headed they would have canceled their project and worked with Ralph Engelstad to build the best facility. Instead they lied through their teeth and made all kinds of promises that they knew they couldn’t keep.
GF needs something for people to do so we don’t lose the people in this city to other places
The Ralph really is there Tami.
Hope that the people of this community buy tickets and support the event? Bring in events that would never come to the area if they didn’t have a proper venue to perform in? Attempt to provide a variety of entertainment options for the community to enjoy? I can’t believe how ungrateful and ignorant most of the people that comment on these articles are
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Wow sounds like some anger issues there. We’re supposed to be grateful that we had the chance to see the washed up pop tart? Or maybe we’re just supposed to be grateful that we have the Alerus gang to lie to us.
And I guess we must be ignorant because we don’t appreciate good music like Brit. After all the Alerus gang knows best.
She goes on to blame the public for not supporting the Alerus when they did bring in a big name concert.
Now this is a long post and you might wonder what’s the point. Well the funny thing is, these comments sound like a person complaining about their job. Especially when she was whining about all the oversight that the Alerus people get.
And there is a Tami P. that works for the Alerus. Now I’ve got no proof that these two people are the same, but I think they are. I think these rants are coming from the management of the Alerus after they’ve lied and wasted our money.
So if you are the same person Tami, I want you to know that we don’t owe the Alerus anything. We’ve built you guys an 80 million dollar facility. If you can’t make something with that much capital behind you then we need a new management team.
I”m tired of being lied to by the Alerus gang, and I’m not going to be lectured how it’s our fault.
