Hi @Sarah977,
Thanks for your interest in this, really appreciate your take on it. It is unfortunate that you deal with companies that have not been accommodating due to the pandemic, this really sucks and is perhaps why you are surprised by the position I have taken on this. You see, I live in the beautiful island of Ireland, the land of saints and scholars and we don't take injustice lightly, nor do we take it lying down. This perhaps explains why we are famed for our hospitality and why we become so outraged when we feel unjustly treated. We cannot sit by and just accept something that is wrong, it is not in our nature.
It sounds like you rarely, if ever, question a company policy and fair play to you for going with the flow but know this, if nobody was ever prepared to take a stand against these global Corporations (who have one goal and that is to create vast amounts of wealth for their shareholders) then there would never be change.
As a role model of mine once said:
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
Has my voice changed the world.... I wouldn't quite go that far but the great thing is @sarah977, Airbnb have decided that what they did was wrong and unjust and have extended vouchers for everyone!! Even if they have already expired!! Was that because of me.... well... I'm not going to claim all the credit for that but let me tell you this, if nobody ever took a stand against injustice and everybody just accepted what they were told lying down, this may not have ever happened. So for those of you who have had vouchers extended, tá céad fáilte romhat (you are very welcome)! 😉