[MR] comps

[Nicole E. Miller]

While there is definitely a difference in effort in the example you gave Your Grace, what about the individuals who came the evening before, lugging all the decor and kitchen supplies from storage, set up the tents on list field and tables in the halls, decorated the halls, then on event day worked troll, or did water bearing all day, then returned the next morning or stayed late into the night to take down all the decorations, pack up the kitchen gear, clean the restrooms, mop the floors and haul everything back to storage?  

Is there volunteered time and energy less meaningful or less of an effort than that of the head cook?

I am not disagreeing that some do way more than others, but where does it end?  Who decides what the line is for what hard work is valued at?

Lady Sian
---- logan <logan at ebonwoulfe.com> wrote: 

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i find a disconnect when people suggest that the head cook should pay just
like any other "event goer".  the difference, at least to me, is that when
lord bob shows up at the event and spends 14 hours on saturday attending the
event it is vastly different than lord spoonhand that spends 14 hours
working in the kitchen.  one is attending the event the other is attending
to a pot on a stove.  seems a bit unappreciative to me for someone to go up
to spoonhand and say "hey buddy, as soon as youre done basting those hens i
need you to pony up $10.  what, you thought you could work here for free?".
then again i also find it distasteful when an event steward mentions, at a
meeting, that the last event made $1200.00 profit and folks applaud.  so
maybe im weird.

regards
logan

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-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Toscano
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 11:24 AM
To: Sarah Toich
Cc: Merry Rose
Subject: Re: [MR] comps

Your Grace: I understand your philosophy.

But as an autocrat, I would feel rather badly if my Queen had to pay for an
event where she should be the guest of our local group.

As I have said before, I think that there are degrees of intensity, and I
feel there are at least a couple of people who should be comped at an event.
I think, considering the work he/she puts in, the autocrat should not have
to pay, and I think that if you have a head cook who has spent a couple
nights pre-cooking and is in the kitchen for 10-12 hours. never to emerge,
that person should get comped.

Just my opinion,

Liam
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