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Date: 25 July 2005 09:56:56
This week we have a couple of gigs on at the same time. We have 1700 professionals in a certain medical type field and they are the global experts at this discipline. This gig is looked after by the Rainbow Connection. They are running the poor man ragged with silly comments and questions and changing their minds constantly. The delegates are also 95% of a certain gender.
I am looking after 250 professionals from a non medical field. They are of the opposite gender to the professionals of the other gig. They also are running about 95% of the one gender.
My gig is off in a corner of the building and share a foyer with the much larger conference. We have had to take extra ordinary measures to stop them eating the catering of my gig. We thought well they are all rational intelligent people as they are world leaders in their field we will put up two large A3 size signs. The Signs say X Corp guests catering ONLY. But the signs are not enough which i thought may be the case. You get to know what approach to take with various fields. With a scientific / engineering gig signs work well. But with functions of fields that are more socially inclined signs will not work even with bright flashing lights. I have to stand guard during breaks to ask the other mob to please put down that food as it is not for their conference. I even had one guest walk up to me as I was standing by the sign and say "What does that sign mean?" as that person read the sign out to me" "Well" I said with trying not to drip in too much sarcasm "It means that this catering is for another function which is not yours" Oh checking out the sweet delectable things the other conference had and walked away. The other thing we thought they would notice is that the other gig is made up of 95% of the opposite gender and they are wearing different name tags. It seems that they only have eyes for food.
It happens quite a bit unfortunately. On one occassion I had a guest say boldly "But the food they have looks much better than what we have". Which I replied with "You will need to speak to your organisers as they picked off the same menu as this function". So please think of me tomorrow as I stand guard and knock back wave after wave of the not so bright brigade. Which is kinda scary because they are medical professionals and you or a loved one may be in their care.
Till Next Time Do You Think I Could Use A Cattle Prod?,
Chops