Demise of Burj Khalifa

Remember Burj Khalifa ?

The world's tallest building?

Sad to say, it has closed down ...

 for now.


"In recent weeks, thousands of tourists have lined up for the chance to buy tickets for viewing times often days in advance that cost more than $27 apiece."


That's a really expensive ticket but I guess the price is worth it if the experience is indelible.


Imagine looking from the top with your loved ones. You can keep the photo for years and when you look at it. . .

You will feel the awesome breeze, the dreamy feeling of looking from the top.


And maybe you can even recall "flying" back into the building using the figments of your memory.


"In a brief statement responding to questions, building owner Emaar Properties blamed the closure on "unexpected high traffic," but then suggested that electrical problems were also at fault.


The shutdown comes at a sensitive time for Dubai. The city-state is facing a slump in tourism which accounts for nearly a fifth of the local economy while fending off negative publicity caused by more than $80 billion in debt it is struggling to repay."


What I find really appalling here is that the building owner actually displaced the blame onto the public.

Do you still recall the closure of Singapore Flyer for a while ? It has lost millions of dollars just from a few weeks of closure.


I can only imagine how much is Burj Khalija going to lose given the scale of it's operations.


Laugh sneakily ... hahahahaha.


How can I laugh at their misfortue you might ask? Well they totally deserved it.

In business, customers are always, or at the very least most of the time right. By displacing the blame onto them, you are just shirking the respnsibility and worst still on your customers.


I mean... Hello ??!?!? What do you mean the problem is with the high traffic? So you think we should all hibernate at home and not go to Dubai then? If that is so, then so be it! All of us shall leave Dubai to die.


That's the last thing you will do in business!


When you make a mistake, you should firstly admit it (be a man) and be willing to bear all responsibilities and liabilities involved with the incident.


Everyone tend to throw the blame out of the window and keep all the credits in their own house all the time.


I'm still very surprised that the owner actually said such a thing. Obviously the problem lies with the electrical powerhouse.

Do you know the total amount of electricity used to power up that building is enough to light up an entire city? What a waste of money right?


It takes hundreds of dollars to pump water up to the top floorth's toilet.


That exorbitant sum is almost unethical !


It's really time to reflect in this dire situation they are in right now.


Pushing the blame away is definitely no panacea to the salient problem on hand.


There is a fundamental problem here they need to fix; that is their mindset and style of doing business.

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