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- goody bag (preferably including a decent bottle of booze).
by LightG 4y ago
- goody bag (preferably including a decent bottle of booze).
- chrisseaton 4y agoPlease no goody bag. Hand me a drink and a goody bag and now I’ve got no free hands. Carrying around tat not a way to have a good time.
- ljf 4y agoWent to a great Google event where you got a bag only as you left. In fact I wasn't even aware there was a bag until I was leaving and one was nicely passed to me. Had some nice bits to share around the office, and also some things I still have to hand. And a Google home mini - a chunk of the people who came with me moved to the Google home devices after that event, after being amazon people before.
- LightG 4y ago100%. Only on leaving.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoNot sure if english is your first language but you can say 'no thank you' or shake your head for no.
- michaelt 4y agoAh, but you don't know if the bag of tat contains vital information (event schedule, car park code...) until you've already left the registration desk.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoThat doesn't sound like a "goody bag". Also wouldn't having nothing be the same?
- michaelt 4y agoYou go to the conference registration desk, you tell them who you are. They hand you your name badge, and a bag. The bag contains various things - printed schedule, lanyard to hang your badge from, and whatever assorted tat the conference sponsors have paid to have put in there. For some conference attendees the bag is convenient, because when they visit vendors' stalls and get handed leaflets and brochures and free pens; and if they didn't have a bag it'd be inconvenient to carry. Of course, different conferences have different norms - free-entry trade shows will often offer attendees bags as talking to vendors is the whole point. Academic conferences won't. Fan conventions might or might not, it depends. Beer festivals will offer beer glasses instead. Cosplayers never have visible bags, although they sometimes have giant suitcases.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoWhat part of this makes sense of someone saying "there shouldn't be bags at conferences because it takes up my only free hand when I'm drinking" ?
- bawolff 4y agoPersonally id prefer not to have a bag of useless sponsored crap that is probably just going to get thrown out, but maybe that is just me.
- 998244353 4y agoMy only rule with goodie bags is that the sponsor items should be things that people will need anyway and that need to be replaced often or you need multiple of. Good examples are pens and spiral notebooks, one can never have too many. Really bad things I have gotten are rubber wristbands and a "phone holder" that was supposed to hold the phone in place while charging. Also emphasis on the "replaced often" part. Most people will probably use a bottle opener or a keychain thing, but they only need one. What is the chance that they needed one right before the event and that they will keep using the one the event gave them? Or for example, water bottles seemed like a cool idea when I first got one from an event, but now I have 5 water bottles with sponsor logos and I still only use the one that came with my carbonated water maker.