SC - site fee entitlement was After feast

[D. Clay-Disparti]

I respectfully disagree on one level.  I do most of my feast work beforehand at
home and then do only last minute stuff at the event.  I have had the misfortune
to more than once cook with someone else (shared feast experience that was
divided down the middle) who decided the ovens, stoves, etc. were hers and hers
alone.  It was tense and she was quite nasty.  This, and helping my mother cater
weddings when I was but a wee lass, has left me with the knowledge that no
matter how you plan unless you also do a lot of the work beforehand, a wrench
can suddenly appear out of  nowhere to clog up the works.  Just because I did
not spend all of my time at the event in the kitchen does not mean I should
pay.  I put most of my hours in at my home to assure the use of the ovens and
all the required equipment.  If a person really does the feast work they are
working....that person should not have to pay to work!  What a bizarre concept.

Incidentally,  the aforementioned other person ended up being a nervous wreck
and her dishes never came out as she planned and some did not even cook.  I was
glad when a fighter told me mine really "Rocked", while this complement was not
period, it was greatly appreciated.  This all speaks to the need for
cooperation,  in the cooking and the clean-up while maintaining a cheerful
atmosphere.

Isabella

Peters, Rise J. wrote:

>         >>Several have mentioned this and it makes me wonder:
> > If staff don't pay, at what level does one cease to be a staff member
> > and become a paying attendee volunteering for a task?
> >
> The rule that I've applied, when autocrat, is that if you are working at the
> event in a capacity that means you aren't going to be free to participate in
> the event itself, you don't have to pay.  That means, if you are getting
> there when the site opens, going to the kitchen, and basically staying there
> until feast is over, you don't pay.  If you are going to the event, and
> taking some time out of attending to pitch in, you pay.  Going to a dressy
> event and not even bothering to take anything but kitchen grubbies?  Clearly
> you aren't attending the same event the people in their fancy stuff are!
>
> By which, I don't mean to start a debate about whether it's more fun in the
> kitchen or out; clearly I think "in," since I'm a rational hedonist and
> that's where I spend my time.  But there's a difference between "going to an
> event" and "going to cook at at event."  In any case, it's the autocrat's
> call.
>
> For weekend-long events, that means that in general everyone pays, since
> there's fun to be had around the edges of the time spent cooking (at least,
> the way we run things there is).
>
> Cait, in Storvik
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