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This sucks. However it's never been my experience, and I've brought my wife to a half-dozen techeds on three continents. Sounds like systematic misunderstandings that added up into one big mess.

(I've ignored the dress code for 15 years, FWIW)

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> This sucks. However it's never been my experience,

This just in - Scott Hanselman treated better than other presenters at TechEd. Film at 11.

Then again, you're MSFT employee.

And well known. Nobody wants the boss to find out: "uh, we alienated Hanselman".

He's talking about 15 years, but has been a MSFT employee for 6 years or so - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlueBadge.aspx

Right.. so his experience is either out of date, or as an MSFT employee.

No, the little red shirt vendor kids don't know me from anyone. I'm just saying there's multiple sides to every story and perhaps there's more to this one. I wasn't there.

My point is that I've never had a problem like this at any conference anywhere. Being pleasant and explaining one's self has always worked well for me when traveling with relatives to these conferences.

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