Gothamist: Party in the Champagne Room!

Brightliner

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:51:55 -0500

We got it the first time. What is it with Gothamist readers nowadays? Just because Gothamist takes forever to reload a page after a post, an awful lot of people seem to be clicking on "post" over and over. Click it once and walk away. Just walk away.

WhiskyTango

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:02 -0500

So just before this news broke it was reported that the aforementioned CEO was given a 22% Pay Raise even though his company is in still burning cash/non-profitable AND the company has just been served notice by Nasdaq that they face a de-listing in the next 180 days unless Whilst his employees were given a whopping 3% raise. How does his board justify it ??? This stinks like 'eau de worldcom'

WhiskyTango

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:12:12 -0500

WhiskyTango

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:11:18 -0500

TBA

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:57:09 -0500

Isn't the U. of Colorado known as a big party school? I believe the Princeton Review voted U. Colorado #1 party school in 2003. There's no denying Rob McCormick really knows how to party. Savvis Communications is a public co. traded on NASDAQ. The shareholders must feel real confident about their CEO's management/judgment skills.

Brightliner

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:57:23 -0500

That's not a big deal. An awful lot of millionaires never graduated college. Meanwhile, I know plenty of college grads that are dumb as dirt.

adsf

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:17:36 -0500

I like how his bio skirts around the issue that he never graduated from college.

I want to be your accountant

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:02:23 -0500

"Don't ever hire an accountant who thinks that $1,000 represents a 5-figure tip." So you don't count the comma as part of the number? On a more interesting note, I found a link that stated that Savvis Communications was accused of being a "spam enabler." Supposedly they have since stopped.

Your Auditor

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:10:00 -0500

Don't ever hire an accountant who thinks that $1000 represents a 5-figure tip. Further, the markup on alcohol at a nice restaurant is going to be nothing compared to a strip club (think of that $6 cup of cranberry juice), so it's reasonable to think they were blowing $10K or more if they were buying magnums of 90 Cristal or something. My only question reading this story is whether or not McCormick's hiring.

Keith

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:49:37 -0500

the highest priced champagne they serve is a $2,500 bottle of 1982 Chateau Margaux. Not to be a jerk, but that's actually a Bordeaux.

Bec

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:37:54 -0500

I think there are any number of ways you could rack up a bigger tab at Scores. In the case with the husband of the Indian diplomat, in addition to expensive champagne for himself and everyone else, he tipped his group of girls $5,000 each. This was in addition to their fees. He rented the Presidential Room (the most expensive of three options) and payed more for it to be completely private. Then over the course of five hours had lap dance upon lap dance, and when his lap was full, had all of the girls giving each other lap dances. That's not free. They're working. So, if one guy can rack up a tab of 150K, I'm certain that 3 assholes can easily top 241K. Lame.

Jeff

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:15:27 -0500

The Post beaks don the charges

tien

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:04:14 -0500

uh, i was just posting what i heard on the radio. in a sleepy-coma. i didn't really catch all the coversation. they also said on the radio that there were more than three (i think i heard 15) at scores.

I want to be your accountant

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:53:10 -0500

Tien: Okay, let's do the math. At the most expensive restaurant in NYC, Ducasse, the highest priced champagne they serve is a $2,500 bottle of 1982 Chateau Margaux. Let's assume that each of the 3 gentlemen in question had 6 bottles each of this champagne (which would also explain a lot). That would total $45,000. Now let's say these same 3 gentlemen had 200 lap dances each @$20 so that would add up to $12,000 total. And since Scores claims that its strippers get five figure tips, let's also say that each of the 100 strippers received $1,000 for a total gratuity cost of $100,000. The amount of the evening's entertainment is now at a total of $157,000. The difference between $241,000 and $157,000 is $84,000. How would you account for the remaining $84,000?

Wannabe stripper

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:30:21 -0500

Five figure tips for the "ladies"? I am definately in the wrong business!

tien

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:25:10 -0500

i heard on the radio (stern to be exact) that they were getting lots of bottles of exclusive champagne.

TBA

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:19:04 -0500

NYPost: "For $241,000, McCormick could have bought five lap dances — at $20 a pop — for each of his 2,000 employees around the world" Could have, but didn't. . .