What me think of the long piece below was Lord Nelson volunteering to be my THIRD technical assistant in taking care of my problems with this log. It is important to you to realize HOW I delegate tasks.
First of all, I do not to be a go-between. That is what STAFF is EXPERT at doing. At first, of course, one needs to be VERY careul to check in before doing everything, to get a feel for the rules. As I said, AT FIRST staff had to check with me a lot. But I can still avoid being a go-between. In the ITEM below, I showed how I got three people TOGETHER to begin with.
Tom took the lead here, he is machinating even as we speak. Pain asks “what’s next?” Both are good responses. A staffer must find his own niche at this level. We’re not hiring day labor here, we’re hiring BRAINS.
So we need to start with complete meetings via e-mail. That means that ALL correspondence should be by e-mail with all four of us present. I don’t want to have to report to each one what the other is doing.
So I need permission from all three TAs to give each of the others his e-mail address and any other contact info he feels might be useful. The e-mail is all that is essential, but I am VERY touchy about nettiquette relating to e-mail.
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After all those years of being available day and night, and I mean REALLY day and night, I am exhausted with it, so don’t feel like I insulted your mother if I don’t respond quickly. We have the ORIGINAL TA, Kelso, and he IS available 24/7. If you can’t reach him by phone quickly, PM him. He makes me in my prime look like a particularly depressed sloth.
#1 by Lord Nelson on 04/08/2007 - 4:06 pm
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You have have my permission, but you need to know that I am not good at technical things.
Anyhow, count me in.
Lord Nelson.
#2 by Joseph K. on 04/08/2007 - 7:15 pm
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The one thing I will give you credit for Bob Whitaker is that you will allow a person to contribute to your blog. A person like myself, for instance. I openly give you a lot of credit for that. You could deny a person such as myself the opportunity to put words into your blog because you disagree with what I have to say. But you don’t do that. Therefore, I have no choice but to admit that you are a man among men as the lion is among beasts. You will not suppress my content. That takes courage and the willingness to permit freedom of speech. That makes you a better man than many a man. There is a great deal of suppression of freedom of speech in our country today and I am hereby announcing that Robert W. Whitaker is not among those who is suppressing freedom of speech in America. That in itself is a big deal to me.
Congratulations to you, Whitaker. You are a bona fide American.
Joseph K.
#3 by Mark on 04/08/2007 - 8:35 pm
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Bob, TA has a slightly different connotation to my generation (early 40’s) than it possibly does with you. When I think of TA I instantly focus on the old rock band the Tubes who had half naked girls dancing in the background, among other things. How about calling them Technical Managers, or Problem Solvers, or Enlisted Men? Anything but T&A.
Mark