My pet peeve every year is to come onto these forums and find people telling us that we were not professional enough, that since we chose to become staff we have no one to blame for our exhaustion but ourselves and we have no right to be tired, snarky, or confused sometimes. There are lots of people in the world who CHOOSE to do tiring and nasty work: police, soldiers, firefighters, emergency room doctors...fortunately as staffers we never have anyone's life in our hands and we (rarely) face real physical danger, but would you walk up to a firefighter and tell him or her to buck up and be polite, since they after all CHOSE to be a firefighter and it's their own fault that they are dirty, burned, and tired? I think not. Just because you volunteer for a job doesn't mean that you lose any right to be tired and stressed in the line of duty. Overt rudeness is never excusable, but if our people get a little frayed around the edges a day or two in, that's the price we all pay for a volunteer force. We could have a professional security team, and charge well over a hundred bucks a ticket. I don't think any of us want that, so please cut us some slack. Tired people make mistakes, we don't do it to be spiteful.
Thats cool and all. I appreciate the hard work. I really do. It must be exauhsting, and you miss out on a lot of the con. Thats one hell of a sacrifice.
I ran into quite a few helpful staff and I cant thank them enough.
However there are a few who make me wonder if they truly want to help, or just want power or maybe just have martyr issues ( hey, a lot of people do)
With all do respect; everyone at a con is tired.
I believe in the idea that 'with power comes responsibilty' and all that.
People who are in charge need to set and example. If the staffers/voulanteers dont have to be polite, why should anyone else?
I understand the exauhstion and stress and a slip up or two is understandable. But to cosnstantly take it out on attendees and say that were unnapreciative and all is a little much.
But then Im mainly reffering to SC people.
I remember a thread once asking about 'when and if SC would expand' and the mods/staff went ballistic and yelled at us inisisting that we werent considering that they would have to 'take extra days off work" uum hello, EVERYONE who works will have to miss extra days.
Its also difficult to be greatful to someone who keeps yelling at/trying to guilt trip you. treating you like you some 'dumb b**ch' cuz you asked them for help.
