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Bostitch:
Guys, come on.
While it's not cool that is was the staff that ended up with the bill, it's still a business hotel, so anything that's not bolted down is for sale, and the rest is negotiable.

K9Primate:

--- Quote from: Bostitch on 20.09.2011, 05:59:43 ---it's still a business hotel, so anything that's not bolted down is for sale, and the rest is negotiable.

--- End quote ---
No offence to your logic, but this attitude can brush some of us against the fur so to speak. m(
What if someone would "use" for instance your fursuit (if you have one that is, but you get my drift) as a floor-mop (or worse), since he thought that was fun to do.
Even if he offered to pay for the damage, I bed you would be seething, which is quite understandable in my opinion.

Just saying that, a few general virtues go a long way in keeping a lot of people happy, including oneself. ;)

Cheetah:

--- Quote from: Bostitch on 20.09.2011, 05:59:43 ---While it's not cool that is was the staff that ended up with the bill, it's still a business hotel, so anything that's not bolted down is for sale, and the rest is negotiable.

--- End quote ---

I don't like the wording, because it implies that social behaviour doesn't play a role in it. But yes, technically you are correct. That's why a significant part of the confee goes into our liability insurance and of course, direct compensation of damages.

Feel free to draw on the tablecloths, break the elevator by jumping around and unhinging the sliding doors, climb on tables and break them, put sticky tape on painted walls, puke on the carpet. As you said, it's all for sale. But it is not "the staff" that ends up with the bill.  It is YOU who will end up paying for it - with everyone else, through your con fee. This is one of many factors why EF doesn't get cheaper from year to year. Damage control is a budget item. And it's all money that goes to waste, instead of being put into projects that make EF more awesome.

So how about trying not to damage anything instead of  this stupid discussion?

James The Dog:
Besides, if everyone had that attitude, then there wouldn't even be a con, because no hotel would want to have us...

Runo:
Maybe next time they should try *buying* the table cloth from the hotel *before* starting to draw, then. I could even imagine they'd do that [edit: I mean the hotel with "they"].

…but I guess then the thrill the "artists" sought would be gone and the canvas uninteresting, huh? :P

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