Straight shooter with upper management written all over her.
I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.
I celebrate the guy’s entire catalog
Now tell me, what's your favorite song?
Gosh, I guess I kinda like them all.
What, would you say, you DO here?
I am a people person! I’m very good with people!!
I love it when these overly upbeat reporters encounter an honest 'tells it like it is' person.
Ooo-kay!
Just let me rub your back and neck a bit before we go ...
That's the Vulcan "don't say another goddamn word" pinch.
I like turtles
The most straight-talking tell it like it is kid that ever was
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Damn, who told you the truth and it hurt you?
Oh no! You had to hear that some person didn't like a thing! Are you going to be okay?
Nobody wants to be at a plastics show lol
I'm literally at this show and want to go home
What’s the coolest machine you saw?
Maybe she’s talking about the Fox channel?
That's exactly what she means
Incorrect, she's talking about the trade show she's working, not the local news affiliate
I guess she doesn’t know the difference between the foxes. I bet she prefers Mozilla.
Well, I thought it was funny
How could she possibly know the local fox channel when she lives in another state ?
It says FOX on the microphone she’s speaking into.
Yes I understand it's FOX browdcast lol. But there are literally 200 local FOX channels. It's based on the region. There's nothing similar about the FOX broadcast channels and they have nothing to do with FOX cable news channel if that's what this is about.
Usually the media has their logo somewhere on their equipment, uniforms, vehicles, etc. They usually introduce themselves with the network that they are associated with as well. Plus it clearly wasn't her first time being there. So it would be pretty easy for her to know.
I actually went to this show as a part of my job in 2014. Wasn’t too bad and some cool vendors. Canon had a booth with 3D printing yoyo-s and VR stuff before it was big.
Had a great conversation with a 3D printing company that was making joints and prosthetics for people. Gotta find the diamonds in the rough.
That was the wave of the future in 2014
It really was. I didn't give a shit about plastics then, and I definitely don't now, but there was some cool tech there on display.
With the VR stuff, Canon could make a virtual 3D model prototype and with the headset, you could handle this QR code cube that would represent the model in VR space. You could zoom in, see the inside, and even break it apart. While it was meant for manufacturing purposes, they did have a DSLR one and you could look inside the camera, see the mechanics and everything. Was very cool.
My co-workers are at that show right now. They totally didn't want to go, but they also didn't want to be here either.
They all know what they've done.
I used to go to the plastics show in Milan. The first time is amazing, (the amount and size of the machinery) after that one it was just the good food and getting to know the city that alleviates the burden.
I do. I came from Canada to see it. Want to know what’s going on.
Send pics or it didn't happen
Any big waves in the plastics industry?
Particularly in Orlando
It only took 2 for me. I hit "fuck this shit" pretty early on and I didn't even have to leave my state. All the other vendor staff around me were dead in their eyes and were moving without souls. As soon as the doors open though, the masks come on. Horrible experience.
Last show I went to, I hung out with the vendors firing foam missiles (swag from one of their benches) at each other while the panels were running in the auditorium. You could tell they needed the break.
What’s so bad about them?
You sit/stand at a booth for 8 hours shilling your company to folks who probably don’t care and are just there to snag whatever giveaways you have.
It’s fine for a day, but by day 3 your soul has left your body
And then there's the shitty venues, and shitty organizers and all the things that can make a shitty thing to do just worse.
Then there is your family that you left behind, missing little Timmy’s baseball practice. And this isn’t going to help your marriage being away for 3 nights. It’s not even a vacation but you still feel like you need to make it up to him when you get back by taking on more of the domestic stuff.
Yeah but think about all the yummy Sysco warm and serve catering you'll get to eat! 😒😒😒
And most of those people in the booths were out drinking until 3 or 4 am and are super hungover. That doesn't make it any easier.
The swag hogs are the absolute worst part for me. True story:
I was at the SHERM conference (it's an HR conference) and we were giving away these sunglasses with fake wood arms. Nothing amazing but people really liked them. On the last day of the show, this lady comes up and says, "How many of these can I have?" Being the last day of the show, I was eager not to bring back extra stuff, so I said, "How many do you want?" She says 15! 15 pairs of glasses. I laughed and said you can have 3. Then I was talking to one of the other booths that was giving away socks and she told a similar story of a lady just walking up to their booth and arm shoveling like 30 pairs of socks into her bag. Turns out it was the same lady. That's fucking gross.
Yeah I went to the GSA conference a few years back, the amount of pepper with wagons behind them filled with pens, fans, catalogs for random shit… you know they came even bring half that crap home because it won’t fit in their luggage… trade shows can be fun, if you are in the right industry, they can also be horrendous.
Sherm is also slang for a cigarette dipped in PCP. That’s the type of swag that could make an HR trade show interesting.
I didn't know you liked to get wet...
And when day 3 ends... you pack up your booth and head to the next location to do it all over again... at least that's how it is in my line of work. Every week from the start of January to the middle of March... three days in some random city on a concrete floor.
I don't understand these types of people. My company sends me swag and what's the point? Wtf am I supposed to do with shitty sunglasses, weird shaped erasers that don't work, and low quality beer koozies? And some people go to trade shows specifically to get *more* of this kind of crap?
last time I had to staff a booth, found out on arrival the organizers had only given each booth two chairs...and charged an extra $80 to rent an additional chair. We had 5 people in the booth at a time.
If you’re on booth duty you’re often there several days in advance helping to setup the booth and unpack swag and marketing materials. You then work shifts, standing for hours on end on a hard concrete floor (or a small pad if your company spent extra $$$) and talking nonstop with short breaks for food or snacks. You don’t actually get to attend much of the event itself since you’re stuck at the booth. Senior guys get to go to keynotes and parties. And then you have to help tear down the booth when it ends and do a debrief with the marketing team. Some people enjoy it, but after you’ve done half a dozen, it’s a chore. Which is why they sucker new guys into it constantly.
I remember back in the day I was working a tech trade show at the Javits Center in NY. We had a 10X10 booth that folded into this large coffin like crate. Last day of the show everyone just takes off, leaving me - a tiny Jewish man - to pack up the booth and bring it back to the hotel. It's like 95% degrees outside and I'm just standing on the corner of the 12th avenue with this giant box trying to hail a fucking taxi for an eternity. Came so close to just abandoning it right there on teh corner. Trade shows are the worst.
The worst imo are the floors. Standing on concrete for hours exhausts the feet and they charge your company THOUSANDS of dollars for a rug. Then thousands more for a foam pad underneath. It’s crazy how much they charge for every little thing.
Can’t you just bring your own padded rug? Just claim it’s a part of your booth setup/display.
Nope 🤗 from my experience they would set up the floors and most of the booth for you. They charged for set up and break down as well.
Depends on the city. If it's NY, everything is unionized and you literally can't do anything yourself. It literally cost more to move our booth within the conference center than it did to ship it from Seattle. Such a racket.
Most shows charge extra for padding.
People love telling me I NEED to do more shows but I make way more money going to shows and selling to the vendors at the shows. The people who buy my stuff are generally working the shows themselves, so when I have a booth, the people I wanna have seeing my stuff are also stuck at their booths, thus ending up in less sales. So I can spend 2 hours walking around a show meeting the vendors and selling more than sitting at a booth for a weekend.
I once attended a show, as an attendee not a vendor, for a show I had no reason to go to because I had recently left my employer. My ticket was already paid for, so I figured why the hell not.
It was very interesting attending a show with a "I don't really give a fuck" perspective. Everybody (vendors and attendees) seemed so rushed and desperate, and were clearly not having a good time (the only "fun" times were the after-show parties). It really brought home the meaning of the phrase "rat race" to me.
I worked a booth for my company for many years, presumably because I knew our product and services backwards and forwards and I presented myself well, but boy was it a drag. I coped by just trying to stay true to the technical details and trying to make it educational for the client. I hated being identified as a salesman.
An absolute icon. Tell it like it is!
Why would you give this interview in the first place?
Theres a level of "fuck it" that means you'll say yes to anything and be brutally honest in the process.
Probably just ran into her at the event and asked if they could interview her. She probably thought they would ask more relevant questions is my guess.
I would still be inclined to offline interview, could be interesting to have another pov. Management of the convention could learn from it
Probably didn't realize enjoying the show was a prerequisite to being interviewed.
Do trade shows like this ever make anyone money? It always seems like 90% of the attendees are marketers, not anyone looking to buy anything.
For medical trade shows, specifically the smaller ones, you can get some good ROI. The big national /global shows are just for appearance. The big players will drop $500k just on their booth…but it would hurt their image if they weren’t there.
Yeah it more shows you are relevant still
If the people running the booth are honest you can pick and choose shows that are actually useful. Coming from Boston, any show in a nice location in January is a good show and I can build the case for it every year.
I attend these shows for a workplace safety training company, and yes, we make money on them. We've gotten some huge contracts for state and federal government from the shows and usually sell a good bit of individual training. It's a slog, but it gets the money.
We occasionally make good contacts at trade shows, does that justify the $100k+ it takes to get there…. Probably not. But if you don’t show then your competition uses that against you. Yet everyone at these shows is just counting down the minutes till it’s over so they can get home see their family or get back to doing their day to day job…
I've done way too many of these types of shows (as a company representative that paid to have a booth) and never made any money from them. They are the biggest waste of time and money.
You ever seen the film Kenny. It's about an Aussie guy that works in portaloos and ends up getting sent to a trade show in US, it's both funny and a feel good film.
It's really not so related to your comment but I don't often get to plug that indie film, I really enjoyed it.
I have not, but I'll check it out. Thanks!
We do a few automation shows a year and get some great leads. We have more success with the smaller shows.
I don’t know if it counts as a trade show, but I work in IT and I’ve def procured a cloud software solution (~$450k over 3 year deal) from a company when I went to a new company purely because I remembered talking to them at their booth at a conference a few years prior.
I would not have had the brand recognition otherwise.
My girlfriends dad is at this trade show and his company spent 2 million on their booth
I went to the German version of NPE (K-Show) several years ago. My company comped us some passes, but I noticed that they normally sold for around 70 or 80 euros.
Hell, I thought, for that price there better be naked women and carnival rides.
Sure enough, one vendor hired a model and a body painter so there was a nude woman, standing amid the injection molding machines.
And then, another vendor had rented a carnival ride and had it set up outside one of the halls.
So, money well spent I guess.
Damn! I am hoping my company selects me to go to the K show next year.
She's honest
Working a trade show is brutal
Refreshingly honest. Certainly not something you see in FL.
Some “trade” shows are opportunity for the show organizers to make some bucks. The event doesn’t draw the crowd that the trades trying to sell to. Small companies can spend a good portion of their marketing to get into these shows that end up being overhyped and duds for development of sales.
People just don’t “buy at the show” any more. It’s mostly lead generation and hopefully fruitful meetings. The days of “shaking hands and closing a deal” at big shows are mostly gone.
NPE may be a bit different.... It's not uncommon for the injection molding machines to be sold at the show, be packed and shipped directly to the customer instead of back to the depot.
Good for her
More like no one wants to be at trade shows.
Give the bitch a raise!
I used to work travel trade shows, running a booth, carrying tons of material, chatting up clients. On weekends. It was honestly an unmitigated nightmare. Having to smile through it all took years off my life.
My spouse is in trade shows, and she's seeing shows that were X cost last year, being 20-30% more expensive this year, same with booth companies, charging 50%+ more for booth builds this year than last year. Crazy.
I work in trade show booth construction. The union labor rates and other show organizer fees have increased astronomically. We have a number of clients where we store their exhibits and provide a sizable discount on refurbishing custom builds from the previous year. Some of our pricing this year (once you count installation and all) is higher than what we quoted them last year despite providing thousands of dollars in discounts. It’s making us look like we’re trying to take advantage of them when that’s simply not the case. Those conversations are exhausting to have.
That's my teacher's wife.
This type of thing is only what this reporter does in the mornings. Any big event or trade show things in the central Fl . Area they cut to home 5-6 times during the morning show. Seems like a decent guy
Imagine being at a plastics trade show all day. Your company sent you to "man the booth" and you are supposed to aggressively promote and trumpet the benefits of your company's plastic solutions to anyone who walks past the booth. Most of the people who stop by your booth are not interested in buying your products but they mostly try to sell you stuff, or ask to speak to your CEO. After the trade show you are meeting your boss and two other coworkers from the Ocala office to grab a drink in the lobby of the hotel. You are in Orlando and your company paid for a hotel room but they didn't rent you a car and you are stuck at the shit hotel, in the middle of a giant parking lot and convention center, with zero access to public transportation or anything that resembles culture. All you want to do is get home to California. You don't give a fucking shit about plastic.
Excuse me sir, I came across the country to be rude in your little interview, but I do like Mickey Mouse.
Excuse me sir, I came across the country to
be rude in your little interviewdo my own thing, butI do like Mickey Mousethen you came over, started asking me questions, and put your hands all over me.
Honestly bold to put your arm around someone that just told you they don't want to be there and they don't like your show.
He needed to assert his dominance in some way cuz she wrecked his ego.
No she hates Fox News
Blonde reporter at the end is freaking me out with her big frozen smile and lack of movement.
in front of Schenck - in their booth? They are a market leader - I wonder if she is still employed.
Yes - the shows can suck - but it is your job.
I’m here right now, fun times.
It’s a pretty great show, but Orlando could do something about the sticky bathroom floors and pee everywhere in the bathrooms.
Why is there a plastics trade show?
There’s a trade show for just about every industry.
Plastics is a huge industry. Gigantic, multinational, 712 Billion dollars globally. Why WOULDN'T there be a trade show?
“Journalist” … didn’t get the fluff response he expected.
Sounds just like me. For 5 years I use to do a show every weekend all over Canada and it can be exhausting. I feel it in her voice and hope she gets some rest because trade shows are hard!
I'd like to know more about why she hates it. If it wasn't a paid ad in disguise we might get to know.
I like honest people
As a tradeshow worked, this tracks
Is it really about the plastics show, or maybe doing an interview on a Fox show?
Makes no sense. I came in from Canada for the show.
I did shows at the Orlando location back in the late 90s. That place sucked back then, too.
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