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10/22/09(Thu)20:18 No.2265345  >>2265339
4.
It's really dumb to make your staffers do all the work while you take
all the credit. That tends to make them, oh, I don't know, want to run
off and run their own hall costume department with their girlfriend or
something. You should have learned that running a department is HARD
WORK, but in order for that happen, you would have had to do some.
5.
Directors of contests should not be seen OR heard during the event.
See, that distracts from your performance of actual WORK. (See #4
again.)
6. Ridiculous ego and overreaching ambition are no
substitute for actual talent. (Look up "unwarranted self-importance" on
encyclopediadramatica.com if you need to look in a mirror here.)
7. Anyone who can get you hired, can get you fired. (Sometimes even people who don't "work" there any more...)
And finally, most importantly, and most likely to go right over your head:
8.
The rest of the world (staffers, judges, tech, security, events
manager, etc.) is not the problem; YOU ARE. You won't believe us, but
it's true. After all, we ran 10 of the first 11 KatsuCon cosplays; you
ran just 4. If we lasted 2-1/2 times as long as you did, that must mean
that you sucked at the job 2-1/2 times as hard as we did! Tough cheese;
eat it. (And welcome to the ranks of us has-beens. ONE OF US, ONE OF
US!)
And one last lesson, from a master educator, for Keith,
Colette, that most ungrateful of students, Pocky, and all those lovely
people who were so happy to see us go? As bad as some of you thought we
were, it could always have been much worse. Indeed, for the last four
years, we hope we've taught you just EXACTLY how bad it could be. And
it can be - will be - that bad (or worse!) again if you don't treat
Danny a hell of a lot better than you treated us.
We'll always be watching. Don't fuck it up. |
