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Problem with these things is you can make yourself out to be not welcome despite best efforts, some attendees are utterly hopeless / shameless that they'll dec
by sitepodmatt 9y ago
Problem with these things is you can make yourself out to be not welcome despite best efforts, some attendees are utterly hopeless / shameless that they'll decline any offer of drink (soft drink or otherwise), demand free tap water, speak like shit to staff (grunt with no thanks or please), leave no tips, sneak their own beverages in, complain wifi is slow and so on. I wouldn't host an event in a bar unless I knew the people attending, you're judge by your company after-all and if you want to come again then bringing shameless mingebag joe no manners is not a good idea. Note: this shitty behavior isn't isolated to tech groups, bridge groups and other card game groups are apparently worse that they now have to rent out community centres.
- narrowtux 9y agoMaybe an entry fee that buys you your first drink would help for the first problem at least
- sitepodmatt 9y agoMaybe, I can see it being a little tricky to implement unless you take the fee on meetup.com prior to arriving.
- tedmiston 9y agoA meetup I frequent solves this by having a monthly drink sponsor that spends a few hundred bucks to buy everyone's first drink, and get their logo projected on the wall.
- rdnt03 9y agoYou're not kidding. A group of even a small size brings in a misfit or two. A guy with olfactory problems or a girl who doesn't say anything except the low mumblings to herself. This is not me spreading gossip to bring the rest of the group together, but that one or two people always brings the meetup down. This is not even including conspiracy theorists or people in general who want to rant.