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I JUST. need to vent and yeah the people i'm talking about may be on my timeline BUT no really if I don't i'm gonna say it in the email I'm writing. (and I don't want to block them from it and ping everyone)
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and that would be even worse
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LIKE OKAY SO
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I was more or less volinteered to help out at baycon- which! is not at fault for any of this. Any issues going on are squarely the fault of the hotel hosting the con but nothing can be done about that.
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but so by this I mean a friend went HEY BUDDY ARE YOU GONNA HELP ME OUT AT THIS THING? and long story short because they are frand I said okay PROVIDING
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AND THIS IS A PRETTY BIG "PROVIDING"
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I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY OR GETTING TO THE CON
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LIKE THAT WAS THE CORE
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FUCKING
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THING
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now getting to cons is always a magical adventure because my bus system doesn't allow anything past "backpack" on board, and sometimes that excludes even overly full backpacks.
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so for conventions where there's no car, i have to say. take the airporter (which costs an extra 20-30$) to sfo, then bart to wherever the con is. BUT THIS YEAR
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the con is like in great america
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so to get there I'd need to. take the airporter to sfo, then bart to richmond, then either another bus/caltrans or amtrak to there.
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which amtrak is also thirty bucks
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so just from non-bus fees alone, transit costs for this so far (if i can't weedle the bus driver into letting me on) are 50-60 bucks. with bus and bart included, it's more like 70$
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seventy dollars just to get to the con which i'm helping at
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Now before we had three others in the room(s), but one dropped and the other two had a major family emergency, and with them having to take care of that means the car is gone now too
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so the "transportation" issue is now super in the air
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this three-person down thing also means that we're down one in our room, and with the transit issues meaning I need to come to the con a day early... means my cost for hotel room has ballooned to 125$.
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Now my friend said she'd help cover costs at the beginning, but even if she covered half at this point, i'm looking at paying 130$ for transit and hotel costs.
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all to fucking do volunteer shifts. This is not covering food or say, god forbid I wanted to enjoy myself at the con I'm working at.
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So i'm like. full of salt now, because she kept saying "we'll work something out" when I kept trying to explain some of the issues.
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and hey, she might not have an answer to this, and she def has other things going on as well. But also I want to tell the con as early as possible if I now have to cancel and leave everyone in a worse spot
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and honestly? essentially tabling the conversation makes me feel like i'm being strong armed, because I'm going to feel more guilty and more like "well find a way to tough it out" the closer I get to the con.
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And I just really want a fucking "yes chances are that you'd have to spend that much" or a "no, we have avenues that we can use to cut that all down to. something managable"
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like last night I thought about how I could try to do an emergency sale to raise the money in 18 days and then I went WHAT THE FUCK. I'M TRYING TO RAISE MONEY TO COVER BASIC COSTS TO WORK FOR NOTHING
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(which i know, breaks and rest periods that i'll be able to wander and enjoy myself. but that doesn't clear the fact that i'm still paying to work)
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SO YEAH. Now i have to find a way to say that nicely in an email because!
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when I talked to mom about costs she balked SUPER HARD
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and no amount of "there's a tardis there" really swayed her.
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so please give me cute shit to help deal with the bundle of angries I've got here.