The Norm Classics by Michael Jantze for January 06, 2022

Yup

The best are food products conventions. Lots of delicious samples that you get to eat on the spot.

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 still have some swag bags wit freebies still in hem.

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.

Been there, reacted like that. Spot on ; )