Are the armbands a recent addition? I worked FurFright last year and didn't have one. Or are they used only for cons that don't issue T-shirts to the security crew?
Rene's got me on a Sgt. shift Saturday night, right before you -- first time ever. o_O
Maybe they weren't used with the shirts. But the armbands have been around for years. At least since before I was in the DI, since I wore them back at the first MagFest we worked. (2007?)
Yeah, i don't recall seeing them at furfright or anthrocon either; in those places, we usually rely on the security shirt (orange in the former case, red in the latter) to mark security people. Come to think of it, i don't think we had them at FCN, either, though they might've been helpful; the little dorsai tags we folk use are a little hard to spot at a distance. Maybe the armband should make a comeback, especially if we keep working contracts where some security staff are given to us by the con? Still, the point is well made; there are some folks who wear black berets but are not (sometimes emphatically not) DI. Congrats to petercat on the new position; i figured that they'd need a new sergeant for FF, what with one of our regulars away and another serving as DO. When i saw it was you, i thought, "Oh, what a great choice."
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Why aren't you on Facebook yet?
For one thing, my newest venture requires Facebook to log in: http://www.cliqsearch.com/
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Not that I'm using it a lot anymore. FB is not terribly good at 'non-trivial'. :/
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It's the cowboy hat.
Completely threw me off.
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Rene's got me on a Sgt. shift Saturday night, right before you -- first time ever. o_O
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Maybe they weren't used with the shirts. But the armbands have been around for years. At least since before I was in the DI, since I wore them back at the first MagFest we worked. (2007?)
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Come to think of it, i don't think we had them at FCN, either, though they might've been helpful; the little dorsai tags we folk use are a little hard to spot at a distance. Maybe the armband should make a comeback, especially if we keep working contracts where some security staff are given to us by the con?
Still, the point is well made; there are some folks who wear black berets but are not (sometimes emphatically not) DI.
Congrats to petercat on the new position; i figured that they'd need a new sergeant for FF, what with one of our regulars away and another serving as DO. When i saw it was you, i thought, "Oh, what a great choice."
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I think FurFright and Anthrocon are the only events big enough that security t-shirts are worn at. Hmm.
Guess I'll go ahead and update the post to reflect the wearing of t-shirts as well.
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