- November 2nd, 2010, 10:07 am#276963
The NJGB have had a fantastic Halloween season with 27 total events.
Something we are starting to notice more and more though is that certain events are feeling a lot less like fun, and a lot more like work. It seems we are becoming a victim of our own success.
A few examples:
-At recent large events, we tend to end up posing for photos for 4-6 hours without a break.
If we take a lunch break, try to do an interview with local news, or just talk with someone, people will interrupt us non stop. There just seems to be a sense of entitlement that leads to manors going out the window. Trying to enjoy the events we attend is nearly impossible due to all the photo requests.
-Crazy photographers, they're everywhere. We were actually told by the NYPD on halloween night to stop being so awesome, as we were causing foot traffic issues. There were people running out into moving traffic for photos, even out infront of the ecto as we were driving down the street.
-Crazy adults: everyone knows storm troopers, spider man, and trekkies are from a movie, but for some reason at least 40% of the people we meet think we are real ghostbusters and they must tell us about the ghost in their attic. Many of them become upset or even angry when we tell them that ghostbusters is only a movie.
-Unapprecciatve event organizers: Some are great, we show up, have some fun, take a few pictures, and then they treat us to the event, maybe a free lunch etc. However more and more we have been running into event organizers who treat us as employees, working a queue line for 6 hours with no break, food, or pay.
Maybe we are just burnt out from the holiday season, but it just seems that busting is becoming 80% hard work and 20% fun.
I will note though that driving in the ecto is still 100% enjoyable though as we tend to keep the doors locked and windows halfway up so we have a barrier.
Is anyone else going through this? Have any advice?
Something we are starting to notice more and more though is that certain events are feeling a lot less like fun, and a lot more like work. It seems we are becoming a victim of our own success.
A few examples:
-At recent large events, we tend to end up posing for photos for 4-6 hours without a break.
If we take a lunch break, try to do an interview with local news, or just talk with someone, people will interrupt us non stop. There just seems to be a sense of entitlement that leads to manors going out the window. Trying to enjoy the events we attend is nearly impossible due to all the photo requests.
-Crazy photographers, they're everywhere. We were actually told by the NYPD on halloween night to stop being so awesome, as we were causing foot traffic issues. There were people running out into moving traffic for photos, even out infront of the ecto as we were driving down the street.
-Crazy adults: everyone knows storm troopers, spider man, and trekkies are from a movie, but for some reason at least 40% of the people we meet think we are real ghostbusters and they must tell us about the ghost in their attic. Many of them become upset or even angry when we tell them that ghostbusters is only a movie.
-Unapprecciatve event organizers: Some are great, we show up, have some fun, take a few pictures, and then they treat us to the event, maybe a free lunch etc. However more and more we have been running into event organizers who treat us as employees, working a queue line for 6 hours with no break, food, or pay.
Maybe we are just burnt out from the holiday season, but it just seems that busting is becoming 80% hard work and 20% fun.
I will note though that driving in the ecto is still 100% enjoyable though as we tend to keep the doors locked and windows halfway up so we have a barrier.
Is anyone else going through this? Have any advice?
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