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Whenever I see the social media people at närcon (especially one person...) interact with närcon attendees they seem so dismissive, deflective and rude. If someone brings up ANY flaw or problem they just have to make sure they first deflect the blame away from närcon and themselves. And don't forget to insinuate that actually, it must have been the attendees fault! And they do it so openly, they'll use passive aggressive snark towards their paying customers in public spaces. Of course that only intimidates people into not saying anything. But you can grab almost any antendee and in private they'll all talk about how much they dislike the people who run närcon. I've bonded with so many strangers over it! It's kind of an open secret at this point.

But if any panda happens to read this - it's probably not about you. Most of the people will also say how much they despise närcon for forcing the poor pandas to work too hard for no pay. They see how stresses you are, they don't get mad at YOU, they get mad at the top people who run närcon (who do it on purpose).

They take everything way too personally, as if you insult närcon you insult them personally. They are not at all for the role they have been handed.

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Närcon still has so many issues in 2024.

It's so funny/tragic seeing people had valid complains and concerns about närcon from a decade ago - and nothing has changed since then! They are still magically understaffed EVERY year. It's on fucking purpose at this point - they want gullible naive teens to work for them for free under the guise of "we're family guys uwu this con wouldn't be anything without you we luw u guys sooo much little panda buddies uwuwuwuwu" and the poor teens who don't know better think that's sweet and not just a manipulation tactic made by greedy adults to make them work even longer, for free, while närcon lines their own pocket with more money every year. There is no age limit on kids working for free for närcon btw. Because 14 year olds make such good staff members right? They're totally ready to handle 12000 visitors! For 10-12h a day! Well, it's supposed to be like 6h, but every ex-panda/staff I've talked to was forced to work 10-12 instead (often in hot as hell sunny weather) because... they're understaffed. How convenient for närcon huh.

Of course those people are also not checked properly either. I've seen groups of teen staff be loud and rude as fuck to little kids. Causing havoc and certainly not doing any work. And judging from past discord drama, plenty of longer lasting staff members feel comfortable being quite rude to visitors too. Visitors paying for a sleeping hall being met witha bright fucking light that couldn't be turned off at night being told "well we're not a hotel" is just- bruh. Turning of the light is such a fucking minimal requirement and valid complaint. No reason for staff (who are clearly not trained to handle upset customers) to be snarky about their own freaking shortcomings.

They also insist on everyone using their frankly garbage app that is held together with kindergarten level glue. It crashes about 50% of the time when I try to use it.

NärCon is honestly pretty shit. They act like they're so uwu welcoming on the outside but they're greedy and rotten on the inside.