Not just three hours off, three hours paid off! Ideally, Election Days would be federal holidays regardless, but I'll take whatever scraps of awesome I can get!
Honestly, from what I remember, everyone at AnimeIowa was just happy to be there in general; it probably helped that, after that first disastrous year, Registration opened a good three or four hours before any panels did, and even when we got the afternoon rush, by that time we were working like a well oiled machine and got people through the line right quick. We recently added Thursday badge pickup as well, for anyone who pre-registered. So for the first few hours, not a lot of people are in that much of a hurry (nothing to do yet!), and then for the later hours, we tended to get through longer lines in one heck of a hurry ourselves! I used to try to recruit volunteers and staffers to Registration with this schpeal: "It's the most rested and cleanest you'll probably see most of these people all weekend, they're super excited and happy to be there (so probably won't give you a hard time), and you get to sit down for most of it!"
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Re: It's both mundane and thrilling!
Date: 2024-07-24 03:22 am (UTC)Honestly, from what I remember, everyone at AnimeIowa was just happy to be there in general; it probably helped that, after that first disastrous year, Registration opened a good three or four hours before any panels did, and even when we got the afternoon rush, by that time we were working like a well oiled machine and got people through the line right quick. We recently added Thursday badge pickup as well, for anyone who pre-registered. So for the first few hours, not a lot of people are in that much of a hurry (nothing to do yet!), and then for the later hours, we tended to get through longer lines in one heck of a hurry ourselves! I used to try to recruit volunteers and staffers to Registration with this schpeal: "It's the most rested and cleanest you'll probably see most of these people all weekend, they're super excited and happy to be there (so probably won't give you a hard time), and you get to sit down for most of it!"