Coat Check

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

I'm Kat, one of the chicks who was working the Cthulu Coat Check this weekend.

This was my first convention. I was wandering around the con looking very confused, and some lovely people pointed me towards coat check to drop off my (huge) backpack. They were swamped, I offered my services, and the rest is history!

One of the questions we had at coat check was if the tip jar was rude or not. We put it up and encouraged donations, but they were not required. If no one was offended, we might do that again next year. Good idea, or bad?

-Kat

Comments

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

I would have to agree on this one. EVERYONE who volunteers for the Con works their butts off. There are certain established benefits for this. Singling one area off for an additional bonus, such as tips, just creates a have and have-not kind of situation.

You have to consider that there are people who work many hours every week of the year in order for this con to happen. For that, they receive the same benefits working AT the con that everyone else does. In addition, those benefits cap after 12 hours work at the con, yet there are many people involved who work 20-30-40 hours starting from load in (bringing in the con equipment from storage and setting it up), continuing all the way to load out (striking the con equipment and bringing it back to storage).