Re: Banners

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, James Purchase wrote:

> Erik wrote:
> 
> "James, it's a PUN off the old Netscape banners.  It's meant to be
> humorous.  Give it a rest!
> 
> Love,
> Erik"
> 
> Give it a "rest"?
> 
> I _know_ what it's a pun on...... and I find it both funny and visually
> appealing, but I don't see what it has to do with _this_ event. As I stated,
> had the idea been brought up and _discussed_ earlier, before we had settled
> on a name for the event, I think that it might have been a great idea. But
> it wasn't and all of our PR is using the AGA International Aquascaping
> Showcase & Contest. I _know_ that it is a mouthful and hard to get onto a
> small banner graphic.
> 
> I'm also wondering why, now that the web site is up, I'm not supposed to
> have an opinion or make comments or give suggestions about things like this.

You're entitled to your opinions.  I'm entitled to tell you mine.  Mine is
"so what?  let up on the overly-serious criticism!"  From a practical
standpoint, how can one "discontinue use at this time" of a graphic that
I've already given to a bunch of other people?  The genie is already out
of the bottle.  Why lay negative criticism on it now?

There's more:

Maybe I can't take criticism well on things that I've worked very hard on,
so any message saying "let's get rid of this" isn't going to go over well.  
But you've managed to do this a handful of times to me during this
particular project, and you still don't seem to understand why.  You said,
in an earlier message to me a couple weeks ago, something to the effect of
"I don't know (and frankly don't care) where this anger towards me is
coming from."

This sums it up exactly.  You have no problem laying comments on me and
others that manage to piss us off.  You don't realize you're doing it at
the time, and you don't bother to try and understand why this person
reacted this way afterwards.  You don't understand the value of keeping
your people (especially the ones who will work hard for you) happy.

Anyway, I will do my best to not react during the remainder of this
project, for the sake of this project.  What keeps me here is that I
really beleive in the project and really want to see it through.

  - Erik

-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com




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