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Once you’ve come down from your freebies high, take your bag of swag to an elementary school and give it to a teacher to use as rewards and prizes. They’ll love you for it.
I’ve always referred to the free stuff at conventions as ‘gimmees’.
One place I worked there was one individual in particular who only went to a convention to collect that stuff. She had absolutely no interest in learning anything. She’d come back with large bags of convention crap.
I tried to be a bit more selective in the gimmees I brought back, only grabbing stuff I felt was actually, mostly, useful. Though I did get a pencil once that had erasers at both ends, so some stuff was only sorta useful. But then I also made an effort to learn things that might be useful back in the office… actually paying attention to the demos, attending training seminars and collecting brochures on interesting tech and such.
P51Strega about 3 years ago
Yup
Zontar from Venus about 3 years ago
The best are food products conventions. Lots of delicious samples that you get to eat on the spot.
Wendy Emlinger about 3 years ago
Once you’ve come down from your freebies high, take your bag of swag to an elementary school and give it to a teacher to use as rewards and prizes. They’ll love you for it.
MCProfessor about 3 years ago
I still have some swag bags wit freebies still in hem.
sml7291 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I’ve always referred to the free stuff at conventions as ‘gimmees’.
One place I worked there was one individual in particular who only went to a convention to collect that stuff. She had absolutely no interest in learning anything. She’d come back with large bags of convention crap.
I tried to be a bit more selective in the gimmees I brought back, only grabbing stuff I felt was actually, mostly, useful. Though I did get a pencil once that had erasers at both ends, so some stuff was only sorta useful. But then I also made an effort to learn things that might be useful back in the office… actually paying attention to the demos, attending training seminars and collecting brochures on interesting tech and such.
bjy1293 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Been there, reacted like that. Spot on ; )