Would you like SNQ to be replaced?

[Alysha]

I like Sam's suggestions, but I know that Lauren can't do any Saturday night event because she works until 10pm so if it were to become a requirement, she'd be completely unable to fulfil it.

The feedback in this thread is all fair, I'm not sure why it has become more of a personal attack, but hey ho.
It just needs some va va voom/variety to liven it up a bit.

I know I say this a lot, but I loved the Zombie Run. It added an extra element of competition for those taking part and staff also got added hours. I know on paper it'd be hard to get that many staff members involved, but I had a blast. It added a bit more an interaction between everyone.

[lemons]

i love zombie run but could you just imagine the screaming WTF HE DIDNT KILL ME HE WAS 5 SPACES AWAY FROM ME UGH I HATE HABBOX

i think a weekly/monthly LMS would be good and a scavenger hunt! they are so popular and make ppl sign up to collect their prizes

[Samantha]

I like Sam's suggestions, but I know that Lauren can't do any Saturday night event because she works until 10pm so if it were to become a requirement, she'd be completely unable to fulfil it.

The feedback in this thread is all fair, I'm not sure why it has become more of a personal attack, but hey ho.
It just needs some va va voom/variety to liven it up a bit.

I know I say this a lot, but I loved the Zombie Run. It added an extra element of competition for those taking part and staff also got added hours. I know on paper it'd be hard to get that many staff members involved, but I had a blast. It added a bit more an interaction between everyone.

Don't worry I meant any time in the month as I know it's hard to tie yourself down to 1 specific time/day .

[Red]

I don't recall seeing it in this thread so I will have a look for that later.
I'm unaware of a thread truth be told.
Well that's not what I meant and if that was what I meant, your argument that I use the idle seats wouldn't make much sense.

When we introduced the raffle, I created a stickied snq raffle winner thread in cnb and just updated it each month. I think other managers might have just posted a new thread each time though. Rosy's points are really fair. Of course education comes first and everyone needs time off during exams but its your responsibility to ask management or seniors to step up in your place when you are busy. I don't see how this applies to yesterday though as you were online creating a desk layout when snq should have been hosted. If you can't get no one to host, why not see if its possible to include it as one of their job responsibilities, but special consideration given to those international staff or people who definitely are not able to make it. We used to have a good variety of questions, now they all seem that you need to google to get the answer. The best type of questions and quizzes are the ones where a lot of people know the answers and its a rush to get the answer. People mentioned mathews pub quiz. The reason why that worked so well was not only because of the group format but because mathews questions were always simple gk that a lot of people knew the answer to, instead of questions that you needed to google to find the answer.

[Empired]

Only a bad workman blames his tools.

For some reason I really enjoyed SNQ tonight (no, not just because I won). It just seemed more much relaxed and idk who wrote the questions but this has been one of the only quizzes in a long time that hasn't left me really frustrated.

[Samantha]

Only a bad workman blames his tools.

For some reason I really enjoyed SNQ tonight (no, not just because I won). It just seemed more much relaxed and idk who wrote the questions but this has been one of the only quizzes in a long time that hasn't left me really frustrated.

Yeah I liked it too, which I told Mike himself and said he was a good host. I didn't agree with one of the answers to one of the questions, but I understood where it wasn't allowed as well and didn't fly off the handle. The atmosphere was a lot better than usual!

[Inseriousity.]

Thanks guys. Personally, I'm not a fan of the fastest typer quizzes where everyone knows the answer. I think it's good to have a balance between simple general knowledge and more specialised questions that seperate the winners from the losers.

[dbgtz]

I love it when the manager turns on their staff .

The thing is though, I don't believe Rosy was trying to say that you aren't pushing them or whatever as obviously she can't see behind the scenes, but sure having advice from an ex Help Desk Manager, who was been in your shoes and know what it's like is a good thing? She probably replied because it is feedback, she is entitled to say what she wishes and if she did so because of Mike who cares? You're saying to him why hasn't he bothered offering to host for the past 8 weeks - you answered your own question, perhaps it's because 'they don't want to'. It's not a requirement for them to host the Saturday Night Quiz, nor should it be. May I ask is there any requirements for Senior+ hosting say 1 event/quiz once a month in the Help Desk? If not maybe it's something to consider as it could possibly help the department!

Also, it might be up to the AGMs to tweak it so it works, but there is nothing stopping you giving feedback as after all you should have a say in what they want to change, what they don't and whether you agree or disagree. However, I have a feeling you might have done so already as there's a management discussion thread according to form!

I'm not turning on him and it wasn't meant to be an attack. It's OK if he doesn't want to host, just like any other staff. I can't really introduce your suggestion since there's 4 senior+ atm and 4-5 weeks per month, so it would mean actual staff would rarely be given the opportunity and at the end of the day, we're not the events department so we shouldn't be outright forcing people to host. I have given plenty of feedback on SNQ/the weekly event and there was lots done before me as far as I can tell.

You need to calm down, you're getting annoyed.

I'm really disappointed by your attitude right now. I'm telling you this and replying to the thread (this isn't the first time I have replied to a feedback thread about HxHD Tom) because I want to see HxHD improve and be the best it can be, so do others in this thread.

I am somewhat frustrated, yes and I apologise for mentioning something irrelevant to this thread.

Rosy and I have not dated for a while now so her replying has nothing to do with me and everything to do with being a former HxHD manager. I volunteered to host SNQ a couple of weeks ago if you'd give me the questions but you said you were hosting it (which was fair enough). The cynic in me would suggest that you realised you hadn't tried to get anyone to host SNQ this week so the building session was timed to coincide with SNQ and hope that no-one would care enough to post about it. You've been deflecting ever since. I have never pretended to be HxHD Staff of the Month. It is commonly known that I usually do all my hours on a Sunday (although I have tried recently to change that and spread my hours out) and that I only do the minimum hours required but it seems to have been forgotten that I volunteer more than frequently for other events the department hosts including almost every day at the Zombie Run and the Hogwarts Triwizard tournament. It is an exceptionally weak argument to deflect a fair point that Rosy makes and to turn it onto me and my flaws and I expected better from you.

When I said hosting, I was including the questions in that. The questions are the part which takes the most time. If I forgot to get a host, I would simply host myself. The building session was done then (it actually started at around 4pm, I did not anticipate it to take 4ish hours to do) because it was the first time me, Plebings and Matt were on at the same time. Yes, as I said elsewhere in this post I was pretty frustrated, it was irrelevant to the discussion and it was uncalled for, so sorry for that.

I like Sam's suggestions, but I know that Lauren can't do any Saturday night event because she works until 10pm so if it were to become a requirement, she'd be completely unable to fulfil it.

The feedback in this thread is all fair, I'm not sure why it has become more of a personal attack, but hey ho.
It just needs some va va voom/variety to liven it up a bit.

I know I say this a lot, but I loved the Zombie Run. It added an extra element of competition for those taking part and staff also got added hours. I know on paper it'd be hard to get that many staff members involved, but I had a blast. It added a bit more an interaction between everyone.

Not sure if I need to reply to this but I will anyway just in case I know she works so, like with anyone else who can't do Saturdays (which is a lot of people), I don't expect her to do so.

When we introduced the raffle, I created a stickied snq raffle winner thread in cnb and just updated it each month. I think other managers might have just posted a new thread each time though. Rosy's points are really fair. Of course education comes first and everyone needs time off during exams but its your responsibility to ask management or seniors to step up in your place when you are busy. I don't see how this applies to yesterday though as you were online creating a desk layout when snq should have been hosted. If you can't get no one to host, why not see if its possible of including it was one of the job responsibilities and special consideration to those international staff or people who deffo are not able to make it. We used to have a good variety of questions, now they all seem that you need to google to get the answer. The best type of questions and quizzes are the ones where a lot of people know the answers and its a rush to get the answer. People mentioned mathews pub quiz. The reason why that worked so well was not only because of the group format but because mathews questions were always simple gk that a lot of people knew the answer to, instead of questions that you needed to google to find the answer.

Ahh ok that's completely my error then. I'll look into doing this from now on. I was online, yes, but as I previously stated I wasn't overly active since I had just got back from uni. I don't want it as a responsibility because at the end of the day, this isn't the events department (also there would be more special considerations than otherwise ). I don't see how my questions aren't varied, even if they do require google for some. The two aren't mutually exclusive and because you needed to Google doesn't mean it's also a Google question for everybody, but I see your point about being well known. The last quiz I wrote (which I believe Hannah hosted) I tried to rely less on what I knew and had a better look around for questions and it seemed to be better received so yes I can appreciate the last comment.

Only a bad workman blames his tools.

For some reason I really enjoyed SNQ tonight (no, not just because I won). It just seemed more much relaxed and idk who wrote the questions but this has been one of the only quizzes in a long time that hasn't left me really frustrated.

I'm not sure who or what you think I'm blaming here.

[Empired]

I'm probably just being forgetful but why was the idea of community hosting dropped? Doesn't need to be available every week but I still think it would be a nice idea and can't think of any drawbacks. The questions would still have to be written by HxHD staff I think to minimise the possibility of leaking of questions and the person could be given the questions last minute. I still think it would show the community that hosting SNQ isn't the walk in the park they imagine it to be. (Or perhaps they'll find it is. That would be interesting but still beneficial.)

What about department takeovers? They used to happen a while ago where very occasionally another department (I think the time I'm thinking of was when the forum dept took over) would take over SNQ for a week and do questions related to their own area.

[Samantha]

I'm not turning on him and it wasn't meant to be an attack. It's OK if he doesn't want to host, just like any other staff. I can't really introduce your suggestion since there's 4 senior+ atm and 4-5 weeks per month, so it would mean actual staff would rarely be given the opportunity and at the end of the day, we're not the events department so we shouldn't be outright forcing people to host. I have given plenty of feedback on SNQ/the weekly event and there was lots done before me as far as I can tell.

Just because you're not the Events Department doesn't mean you can't showcase what your department has to offer or what it actually does. I understand you're the Help Desk, but we have to write competitions in moderation, HxL Head+ need to host events, there's nothing wrong with branching out and expanding what the department is capable of. There's not always a surge of people needing help, so when there isn't the staff can just sit around twiddling their thumbs for the remainder of their hours when they could easily do something and also gain hours for it as well.

Also, there are 28-31 days in a month, you currently have 4 senior+ staff so that at the very least will be 24 days for the other staff to do something, and seeing as they have to be active within 21 days before being dismissed, I'm sure they might think of something (if they want to of course). I believe there's a reward scheme in place, so this could tie in nicely if they like the incentives the department offers.