Con etiquette: Food
This post will probably get me extremely hated but for those attendees who can't feed themselves because they don't want to:
GROW UP! ACT RESPONSIBLE FOR ONCE!
"But, I have no money."
Then why are you in the event to begin with if you are "poor"? At every event, you have to manage your budget. How much are you spending on food? A 5-for-$5 emergency provision deal (Ramen maybe) that should last you the whole entire event? Pizzas the whole event? Want to spend more on luxury restaurants? Want to go to an all-you-can-eat and overfill your stomach but risk barfing or taking big shits? Just because an event has the $30 price tag doesn't mean you only bring only $30 or enough money to blow off the first day and not have any money left.
"But I don't want to go to the dreaded heat (or cold)."
Quit being lazy! Drive if needed. If most people can walk 5 minutes away from here or even drive, you can too. How can you expect to survive the real world if you can't walk 5 minutes away from a restaurant or a place like CostCo?
"But I must be here at this time. There's an event going on."
Did you NOT eat earlier? You should have taken note of that.
"But all these events stack up."
It is nearly impossible to do EVERYTHING at an event. If it were that easy, then either the event didn't offer much for you, was poorly ran to where events got canceled, or you are lying. At least eat something little for the meantime if you want to go that far and eat a fat meal after.
"But I will pay you $5 for that."
That does not mean we should sacrifice other staffer's food. Staffer takes around 30 minutes to an hour to get food and is calculated for their staff only. We don't have room for a lot of boxes of food for this many attendees; Our department is NOT a government-funded cafeteria. Everyone MUST eat something under liability. So, do you wish to take something like a slice of pizza and starve a staffer who worked together to feed their other staffers?
"But that staffer doesn't want it."
But other staffers do. Just because you may be "friends" with a staffer doesn't mean that the staffers should give food to their friends.
"But you gave a non-staffer nor non-volunteer water, but not me. That's unfair."
Life's never fair. Though it isn't really our responsibility, we were actually compassionate enough to even give drinks to those people who were potentially hospital-prone only to show we cared. We didn't want these people collapsing at our area. We don't play favoritism and we don't give people water because of their own greed. Just be glad we were nice to even give some free sponsored drinks to everyone.
"But I think this is a way to become friends."
WRONG! This does the complete opposite.
"These cons suck because they can't feed me. I can run this con better with food."
Why go to begin with? Why not run a con yourself since you said that? Good luck spending a lot of $$$$ to feed the needy unless you got a giant sponsor like the Food Network to fund it for you. Don't come complaining to me about your bankruptcy afterwards.
"After reading this, I lost respect for you."
Do I care if people "lose respect for me" by telling them the truth? Yes, we know the financial crisis is hurting everyone, which is practically most of the people's argument on this. However, that doesn't mean that we should lose responsibility towards it. We all know most (if not all) why we got into this financial mess in the first place. Rather than keep on bitching about it, make a change for once. Life was never easy to begin with.
If you are not taking the effort to feed yourself responsibly just like other people are doing, then you don't deserve to attend the event, plain and simple. If this is the kind of behavior that people are adapted to, then maybe they have to change their lifestyle or die trying.
All this is basic con etiquette, let alone should been simply experience from junior high or high school. Why can't people get it? There's no such thing as "Wel-fair", "Sheltercon", or "Hospital-Expo - located at the Cemetary Convention Center".
P.S. Though people say I am too much of the peacemaker, guess I am starting to act like a complete asshole at this point for once.
GROW UP! ACT RESPONSIBLE FOR ONCE!
"But, I have no money."
Then why are you in the event to begin with if you are "poor"? At every event, you have to manage your budget. How much are you spending on food? A 5-for-$5 emergency provision deal (Ramen maybe) that should last you the whole entire event? Pizzas the whole event? Want to spend more on luxury restaurants? Want to go to an all-you-can-eat and overfill your stomach but risk barfing or taking big shits? Just because an event has the $30 price tag doesn't mean you only bring only $30 or enough money to blow off the first day and not have any money left.
"But I don't want to go to the dreaded heat (or cold)."
Quit being lazy! Drive if needed. If most people can walk 5 minutes away from here or even drive, you can too. How can you expect to survive the real world if you can't walk 5 minutes away from a restaurant or a place like CostCo?
"But I must be here at this time. There's an event going on."
Did you NOT eat earlier? You should have taken note of that.
"But all these events stack up."
It is nearly impossible to do EVERYTHING at an event. If it were that easy, then either the event didn't offer much for you, was poorly ran to where events got canceled, or you are lying. At least eat something little for the meantime if you want to go that far and eat a fat meal after.
"But I will pay you $5 for that."
That does not mean we should sacrifice other staffer's food. Staffer takes around 30 minutes to an hour to get food and is calculated for their staff only. We don't have room for a lot of boxes of food for this many attendees; Our department is NOT a government-funded cafeteria. Everyone MUST eat something under liability. So, do you wish to take something like a slice of pizza and starve a staffer who worked together to feed their other staffers?
"But that staffer doesn't want it."
But other staffers do. Just because you may be "friends" with a staffer doesn't mean that the staffers should give food to their friends.
"But you gave a non-staffer nor non-volunteer water, but not me. That's unfair."
Life's never fair. Though it isn't really our responsibility, we were actually compassionate enough to even give drinks to those people who were potentially hospital-prone only to show we cared. We didn't want these people collapsing at our area. We don't play favoritism and we don't give people water because of their own greed. Just be glad we were nice to even give some free sponsored drinks to everyone.
"But I think this is a way to become friends."
WRONG! This does the complete opposite.
"These cons suck because they can't feed me. I can run this con better with food."
Why go to begin with? Why not run a con yourself since you said that? Good luck spending a lot of $$$$ to feed the needy unless you got a giant sponsor like the Food Network to fund it for you. Don't come complaining to me about your bankruptcy afterwards.
"After reading this, I lost respect for you."
Do I care if people "lose respect for me" by telling them the truth? Yes, we know the financial crisis is hurting everyone, which is practically most of the people's argument on this. However, that doesn't mean that we should lose responsibility towards it. We all know most (if not all) why we got into this financial mess in the first place. Rather than keep on bitching about it, make a change for once. Life was never easy to begin with.
If you are not taking the effort to feed yourself responsibly just like other people are doing, then you don't deserve to attend the event, plain and simple. If this is the kind of behavior that people are adapted to, then maybe they have to change their lifestyle or die trying.
All this is basic con etiquette, let alone should been simply experience from junior high or high school. Why can't people get it? There's no such thing as "Wel-fair", "Sheltercon", or "Hospital-Expo - located at the Cemetary Convention Center".
P.S. Though people say I am too much of the peacemaker, guess I am starting to act like a complete asshole at this point for once.