If you care about ethical values and stuffs, or you follow my blog, please heed my two pieces of advice:
- Avoid doing business with any Hyatt property forever
- Spread the words and tell all of your friends not to do business with Hyatt forever
Why?
In short, Hyatt laid off 100 housekeepers last year. Well, laying off employees is actually very normal though unfortunate. The thing is, Hyatt deceived the former employees to train some new, outsourced housekeepers before giving them the execution all of a sudden. It was not a typical downsizing, it was a replacement to outsourced cheap labor and the company fully exploited those grass-root housekeepers. What a shame.
Read the full news article
Hyatt is a shame
And I regret so much to have eaten out at some Hyatt before. Well, no more.
Some more reading
Lessons From Hyatt: Simple Ways to Damage Your Brand – Our Editors – Harvard Business Review
Housekeepers lose Hyatt jobs to outsourcing – The Boston Globe
A week ago, I attended a seminar in my school with the theme of Stephen Hawking’s A brief history of time. Basically, two professors shared their feelings and opinions towards this book. The talk was intended, like the book itself, to contain the least technical knowledge required but still be able to explain complicated, state of the art concepts.
A brief on the brief history of time
I was only a dozen pages in when I attended the talk, so attending the talk actually helped me grasp the big picture of what this book is actually about. Basically, the book tries to discuss creation. How was the world created?
Here’s a list of stuffs it described:
- Singularity – what is it and does it actually exist?
- Dark matter
- Hawking’s radiation
- General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
- The standard model to explain the unsolved questions regarding the creation of the universe, when using Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics to explain it
- Hawking’s own alternative hypothesis to the standard model – No boundary proposal
- In 1988, a researcher published a paper to illustrate the possibility of an imaginery time machine. Basically, what he said was that such a machine can fast-forward time no problem (using worm holes), but can only go backwards in time after the machine has been invented. That explains why we haven’t seen time travelers from the future.
- A lot of things about black holes
In pursuit of the beautiful creation
It’s probably not conveyed enough with words here, but I just failed to understand why any human on earth wouldn’t be fascinated by these beautiful topics. If there is one thing I’ll fall all over, become crazy and lose my mind about, this is probably it. What’s so special about it? To quote Hawking: if we manage to discover the truth, the cause of our existence, it would be the “ultimate triumph of human reason – to understand the mind of God.”
