[Deptheads] We need more volunteers

Fri Feb 24 11:17:03 PST 2012

Your take on the volunteer shirt and mine are diametrically opposed. When I
volunteer for an event, I'd rather not have a shirt that says "volunteer"
on it. I can't express how strongly I feel about this.

Now an alternate volunteer-exclusive design, THAT I can get behind. Just
leave off the descriptive text and I'd actually wear it.

A question to follow that is how much would that cost?

Of course, the notion that 16 hours would earn a shirt was a suggestion. 12
hours would be just as good to me, provided we found something worthwhile
for 16 and 20 hour volunteers.

twenty-three-skidoo,

Neil Figuracion
On Feb 24, 2012 10:53 AM, "Ken Barnard" <cyrissia at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  A bit of a follow on here that came up discussing this with Kryssie.
>
> This con I worked 12 hours.  Board Games was running a little short so I
> offered the extra time to help make ends meet.  12 hours for me is a good
> cap because I like to hit the RPGs and each shift I work cuts out exactly
> one RPG session that is available to me.  16 hours would have excluded a
> fourth session so I don't think I would have been excited to work a fourth
> shift.  I can't honestly say if a free con shirt would have made me want to
> work another four hours, but I wouldn't have thought twice about doing it
> for an "exclusive" volunteer shirt.  That's not ego, that's all geek.  You
> can buy the con shirts, you have to earn the volunteer swag and that makes
> it special.
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: cyrissia at hotmail.com
> To: deptheads at strategicon.net
> Subject: RE: [Deptheads] We need more volunteers
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:32:54 -0800
>
> It seems to me that we could mitigate that and distinguish our volunteers
> at the same time.  Say for example that we add a free con shirt with 16+
> hours of service.  If you volunteer well in advance your shirt is ready and
> waiting on Friday evening.  This is especially important if we make the
> volunteer shirts a different color and/or add the word "volunteer"
> prominently under the Strategicon logo.  Everyone at the con knows at a
> glance that you are a volunteer who has put in some serious hours.  Late
> additions who get in their full hours will still get the same shirt, which
> they can pick up at the next con.  (Yes, I know that I'll have to inventory
> and store them)  I think that would save us the hassle of trying to guess
> at how many extra shirts we'll need and it really incentifies volunteers to
> commit in advance.  The flip side is that we'd probably all need to contact
> our volunteers a little earlier than we have in the past.  Then again, I
> have no idea how far in advance we'd need to order the shirts or the added
> cost of modifying the design.
>
>
>  > From: ealdrich at mac.com
> > To: deptheads at strategicon.net
> > Subject: Re: [Deptheads] We need more volunteers
> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:49:06 -0800
> >
> > I like the ideas put forth in the various emails, but as much as I
> > like the TShirt idea, it's not so simple -- we'd have to take a guess
> > as to how many extra to print. I'll do it, but I'd expect a few misses
> > the first few time as we try to get the numbers right.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On 24 Feb, 2012, at 06:21, Tim wrote:
> >
> > > I agree with Victor. People volunteer for different reasons but the
> > > hardest ones to get are the ones who work the 'desks'. I think
> > > adding a t-shirt for the 16 hour level works. We could also do a
> > > raffle for a free badge next con. I think anything that awards
> > > "best volunteer" or some other subjective criteria will cause a lot
> > > of grumbling and is something that can be abused.
> > >
> > > I volunteered at these cons going back to the early '80s.
> > > Originally I did it to save the $30 (I think) admission fee. After
> > > doing it for a few years, I got burned out and found it was more
> > > enjoyable to just buy a badge and have no responsibilities other
> > > than to play games.
> > >
> > > So my thought is a raffle or a set number of (48?) hours will get
> > > you a free con badge.
> > >
> > > Tim
> > >
> > > On 2/24/2012 12:01 AM, Victor B wrote:
> > >>
> > >> You can bling up your vols as you see fit. Just probably best to
> > >> avoid best or make anything a competiton since where there are
> > >> happy winners there will be disgruntled losers or those who feel
> > >> slighted.
> > >
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