A member of my old team spent HOURS putting in the new system. More important, she put such EXPERTISE into it that Kelso was asked by one of the world’s top computer experts for a report on her work.
The BEST work with me, and I’m PROUD of that! Our second systems operator, before that team, was a young, self-made millionaire in computers. So this is a compliment to my old team, too. I get the BEST.
Another point here is that the BEST don’t just drop out on you, no matter what happens. My old team dropped out on me for something that was MY fault. But it never OCCURRED to my earlier Systems Op to just leave me high and dry until I fund someone else, no matter how I had offended her.
If you are in politics a long time, you have many, many times had someone suddenly just stop talking to you over something and to hell with the people in the movement who were depending on your working together. Quality people NEVER do that. But quality people are few. You see people on Stormfront suddenly deciding that another one is EVIL and blasting them. They totally forget this is their COMRADE, all else notwithstanding.
These are children, and one should NEVER put important things in the hands of children, no matter what age they may be. We are in a WAR and they treat it like a game where there is room for tantrums.
I want the BEST. We can use the kids in the torchlight parade.
#1 by Al Parker on 04/11/2007 - 7:17 pm
How about this: If you have time to think about the torchlight parade then you are not busy enough.
#2 by Sys Op on 04/12/2007 - 1:10 am
I appreciate what you’ve said here very much, Bob. If anyone comes away with anything you write about management, delegation, and those type of relations, please leave here understanding that Bob really knows what he’s talking about. Showing and making known one’s real gratefulness for acts or words that help you is at the top of the list. He knows the next best one is the profoundly real (and hardest to do right without all the but, but, buts) “Will you forgive me?” Because I mean what I say, I don’t need them to accept it, although sad, that is their rightful choice. I have no right to expect it of them.
We’ve picked over the up to 10 pages of CSS and straightened up some of the annoying format things, in several browsers, from the Theme that was hastily put together by another volunteer–even before I used much CSS. Let Mr. Kelso know if something major happens, or we missed someone’s pet peeve. Speak now, Mark, or forever hold your peace. And happy editing to the new Editor level volunteers you’re choosing.