Ok an interesting update for anyone who is interested.
Firstly a huge thank you to all the constructive posts, apart from a couple of snide comments from the usual old suspects (
) this has been such an amazing thread with tonnes of great ideas that really helped, I used many of them. THANK YOU.
So, it turns out that the room sharing leaking (before it was ever announced) spread everywhere and there was general uproar not just in Australia but in the other Asian countries.
I heard they then moved to a plan of only ‘some levels’ of employees were going to share, which got even more blow back and then it was heatedly discussed either ALL share or none. HR actually stepped up and said in todays world room sharing carries too much risk, so that also helped.
So clearly the senior leaders were not going to share…. So what happened was that they have culled the invite list and everyone going now gets their own room.
So success and a massive sigh of relief we don’t have to manage that slow moving train wreck!
The next issue we have to deal with (which an AFF member extracted from me upthread) is that they are overruling our travel policy of J for international and making everyone fly Y.
The tough thing for Aussies is that they’ve picked a remote location in Asia that will take us about 18 hours of travel to get to…. Sigh!