If this were my party, I think I would cry.
Selected paragraphs:
[The janitor] sexually harassed the female guests, stole the ice from the machine and tried to sell it back to the Neumanns.
But his misdeeds didn’t end there: The janitor also refused to put toilet paper in the bathrooms.
When the elevator broke trapping several paraplegic guests, the janitor did nothing. Neumann said that when one of the musicians had a heart attack, the janitor refused to call 911.
“The drunk janitor reappears,” Neumman said. “I say ‘What’s the address?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’”
This janitor worked for the City of Montreal; and he ruined a bar mitzvah. The family asked the city for an apology. The response?
The city claimed that the family was not, in fact Jewish.
I’m not sure, but I think that for ANY party, it’s just polite to have toilet paper and call 911 when someone has a heart attack. If the “Lying Liars Who Tell Lies” convention is taking place, I think that calling 911 should still be done if need be.
Final outcome, the city ponied up 20 grand and fired the janitor. That’s less than $60/guest. I don’t think that you can get decent catering for less than $30/head; that’s not including rental costs for the hall and the time that busy people took out of their lives to drive and attend an event like this.
Also, stay tuned… were I the guy who had the heart attack, I’d be readying a lawsuit of my own…