#nc2024

It's so funny/tragic seeing people had valid complains and concerns about närcon from a decade ago - and nothing has changed since then! They are still magically understaffed EVERY year. It's on fucking purpose at this point - they want gullible naive teens to work for them for free under the guise of "we're family guys uwu this con wouldn't be anything without you we luw u guys sooo much little panda buddies uwuwuwuwu" and the poor teens who don't know better think that's sweet and not just a manipulation tactic made by greedy adults to make them work even longer, for free, while närcon lines their own pocket with more money every year. There is no age limit on kids working for free for närcon btw. Because 14 year olds make such good staff members right? They're totally ready to handle 12000 visitors! For 10-12h a day! Well, it's supposed to be like 6h, but every ex-panda/staff I've talked to was forced to work 10-12 instead (often in hot as hell sunny weather) because... they're understaffed. How convenient for närcon huh.

Of course those people are also not checked properly either. I've seen groups of teen staff be loud and rude as fuck to little kids. Causing havoc and certainly not doing any work. And judging from past discord drama, plenty of longer lasting staff members feel comfortable being quite rude to visitors too. Visitors paying for a sleeping hall being met witha bright fucking light that couldn't be turned off at night being told "well we're not a hotel" is just- bruh. Turning of the light is such a fucking minimal requirement and valid complaint. No reason for staff (who are clearly not trained to handle upset customers) to be snarky about their own freaking shortcomings.

They also insist on everyone using their frankly garbage app that is held together with kindergarten level glue. It crashes about 50% of the time when I try to use it.