I worked at the convention
I worked at the convention yesterday, registering people and giving out badges, and surprisingly it was rather stressful because I was not really familiar with any of the details of how we had registered our guests. There were endless uncertainties, like what to do with someone who is sure that they've registered but doesn't appear on the list, or what badge to give a castmember (who normally gets a VIP badge) who is also a performer (who gets a Pride badge, for reasons of which I'm still not certain). Every time I had a second to ask someone a question, it was always a different un-findable person who had the answer (or didn't). I wish I'd had more time to learn the way things were set up so that these sorts of specifics might have occurred to me and been clarified ahead of time, but I didn't even know if I was going to be working, or where, 'till this week.
Combine this with being too damn sick to retain and process a lot of information, and I was making a lot of stupid mistakes. I gave some people the wrong badges, I wasn't noticing when a person needed a t-shirt voucher, I spaced on the names of a few people I know; all very embarrassing.
That's probably why I'm making this post, to try and explain away my embarrassment-this should be a rather simple job.
I'll do better today, though; I still feel like hell, but it will probably be slower and now I know more. I'm just going to grind through today and then probably come home and crash again. They don't think they'll need me Saturday, so hopefully I can just rest.
Combine this with being too damn sick to retain and process a lot of information, and I was making a lot of stupid mistakes. I gave some people the wrong badges, I wasn't noticing when a person needed a t-shirt voucher, I spaced on the names of a few people I know; all very embarrassing.
That's probably why I'm making this post, to try and explain away my embarrassment-this should be a rather simple job.
I'll do better today, though; I still feel like hell, but it will probably be slower and now I know more. I'm just going to grind through today and then probably come home and crash again. They don't think they'll need me Saturday, so hopefully I can just rest.