No Events?!?

[e5]

It shouldn't be folded. It just works well when people actually do events, like we see on other fansites. If it can work on other fansites, it can work on ours. Possibly more staff needed.

Department should be folded and just let people do events as and when they want to in Habbox' name. The whole system of bookings and CNB and hourly slots makes no sense at all and has held the community back for years, making it so that we have minimal hotel exposure and minimal interest, with the only benefit being for anyone who thinks a staff role here is still actually a badge of honour. Let the Community AGM be in charge of our hotel presence as they should be, and get rid of pointless roles that clearly aren't working out

[Matt]

I agree with James in all honesty. As soon as a new manager is appointed I'm sure everyone will start blaming them from day one that they're not doing enough to improve events. As said in the last thread made (which was like 1 week ago lol) we have a staff challenge with up to 300c for first place, 200c for second and 100c for third. What more else do you want us to do to motivate our staff? The chance of winning 100c, let alone 300, motivates me enough and yet we still have staff not meeting minimums. Events are not like what they used to be, and whether that's because staff just can't be bothered or another reason I am unsure. Don't get me wrong, we have some absolutely brilliant hosts that go above and beyond each and every week and without them I really don't know how Events would survive.

As for a guest host, you actually need a guest host that is willing to give up their time to host. This idea was mentioned in the other thread and who knows how long it will take to implement these ideas when there are no current managers in place. It was left in the last thread that in the new year these changes would be looked at, but it's still only 2013 at the moment, so you actually need to give us time to assess the department instead of repeating the same new ideas again and again.

[Grig]

Quite often with events these days people book hours in advance rather than days in advance so the calendar can often look quite daunting in the morning but then fill up as the day progresses etc.

The radio is offline, the helpdesk is empty and no news has been posted in 14 days if you want to find other finds to moan/***** about when its pretty obvious things aren't too fabulous right now, perhaps suggest ways for improvements rather than just picking out a negative?

Unfair comparison seeing as it was only offline briefly. We are online with a booked timetable over 90-95% of the time- a very different situation to events. I really don't appreciate comparisons like this at face value.

In regards to events, there wasn't a chance for the new manager to settle or implement anything. Obviously if he misbehaved and acted unprofessionally, that's one thing. Staff threatening to quit is another thing. Again, I'm not going to comment more than this here as I'm unfamiliar with the whole context of this situation.

As for a thread like this being created, it's only natural for users to demand answers after endless weeks of events going at a sluggish pace. I didn't involve myself in the last feedback thread because I understand that a new manager needs to settle in. I guess this would be a good way to discuss some ideas on the way forward, albeit most will probably be repeated from previous threads making it a bit monotonous and sounding like a broken record.

[Samantha]

What? No events when people are spending time with their family on New Years Eve? How absurd.

Anyway, joking aside the department has a lot of away staff currently, some people are hosting, but like some have said it's booking hours in advance instead of days. A lot of people do it and although it doesn't look good, it usually gets better during the day. Currently, I'm overlooking the department whilst we appoint a new manager, I'll be hosting events when I can too to help out and make it look a little better. Yeah we haven't had many events, but we're in the period when many go away, spend time with their family and people are on school holidays therefore might actually want a break.

I don't think pulling it up over one day helps, as 3 events have now been hosted, 5 yesterday, 9 the day before that etc.

[FlyingJesus]

"We need more staff" isn't a useful statement when it's been the case for like a year at least and isn't something that any kind of management can possibly have control over - apps have been open constantly for god knows how long and the fact is that people at Habbox simply don't want to do the work. I can see why people don't want the department closed but at least get rid of the ridiculous regulations that we have on everything... hourly bookings and strict timing makes sense for the radio where it's only possible to have 1 person working at a time but events needs to be far more relaxed and enjoyable rather than being regimented into boredom and inactivity

[sex]

"We need more staff" isn't a useful statement when it's been the case for like a year at least and isn't something that any kind of management can possibly have control over - apps have been open constantly for god knows how long and the fact is that people at Habbox simply don't want to do the work. I can see why people don't want the department closed but at least get rid of the ridiculous regulations that we have on everything... hourly bookings and strict timing makes sense for the radio where it's only possible to have 1 person working at a time but events needs to be far more relaxed and enjoyable rather than being regimented into boredom and inactivity

the hourly slots work well for other fansites... they have no problems... hffm at one point a few months ago reduced events to 30mins because there was so much demand to host lol

[FlyingJesus]

Yeah but here we're struggling to get anyone to do anything useful at all so the current setup just means that we lose the ability to have people hosting when they want/can because it doesn't fit with our empty timetable somehow

[despect]

From what i've heard theres a lot of staff posted away from most departments. People always come up with the "oh lets get new staff" but as a department myself its easier said than done. You can't force people to apply. It's mostly about getting yourself out there advertising that the applications are open! I think if anything events need to advertise that more.

For example; you have a thread in job openings section in habbox announcements but hasn't been bumped for over a month? meaning people are posting more in that section meaning your event applications thread is moving further down the list.

I know Alex started actually going to different events on habbo and adding the host to see if they would be interested in possibly hosting for Habbox events. I think thats using your own initiative and is actually a decent idea.

[Lewis]

to get events spread out more, why not introduce a rule saying perhaps... No matter how many events you host in one day, it'll only count as 1 of your 3 a week. Of course the total number of events you've done would still be totaled. The thing is, being part of the events department is something you want to do, not something you see as 'work'. So that honestly shouldn't be a bother to staff. Of course if it's impossible for a events organiser to host like that due to whatever reason, it could easily be settled with management.

[James]

Hi, everyone's complaining that theres no events on, yet when they are on, you don't turn up.

Good one.