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

[bryttan.livejournal.com]

"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?"

While I don't think that having a tip jar is a bad idea in theory, I _do_ feel that as the con went on and we got more hyper & more tired (at the same time :), we perhaps got a little out of hand with the encouragement / haranguing of people to 'feed Cthulu'.

My $0.02,
Bryt

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

I prefer the term "gently steering".

Next year, tip jar gets a name badge.

[cutieperson]

as the person who helped bryttan with the opening shift of coat check (& thus initially put out the tip jar) i am a little offended by the thought of even "gently steering" people to tip.

tips are meant as a thank you for good service, and frankly i wouldn't consider being pushed to give money for a free coat check as "good service".

besides, you wouldn't see a paid bellhop asking directly for tips, would you? :)