Re: [AGA-mcm] workloads?

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

All well said, except that it seems to understate your
importance and effectivenness as the President. Even when
you are "off the list" with other activities and
obligations, you are still one of the most active Board
members.  Unless you set up your mail for Bouncing --
altogether fitting when you should be bouncing babies -- a
great many of the questions and answers I get come from
you, directly or indirectly.

Still the only thing that keeps the work pigeonholed is a
lack of pigeons, right Cheryl?


sh
--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Paul Krombholz wrote:
> 
> > Erik, I suspect that your work for AGA is getting a bit
> too much, especially 
> > at conventions.  Correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> My workload at the conventions is A/V, which is what I
> enjoy doing and 
> would like to continue doing.  Same deal with the disks
> and archives -- 
> this is what I do best.  I deliberately stay away from
> doing any other 
> jobs at the convention for this exact reason.
> 
> If there is anything I once needed relief on, it was this
> president job. 
> Thankfully, others on the board have been very
> forthcoming in that regard, 
> to the point where the "president" is mostly a figurehead
> except when I 
> have to step in and do something official like today. 
> When someone else 
> is ready to take on the responsibility as president, I am
> happy to pass on 
> the torch.
> 
> Some of my other jobs have been taken over by others
> already.  Cheryl now 
> handles parts of the website.  Scott has taken over the
> PayPal account 
> management.
> 
> 
> > I also think that Karen's workload could stand to be
> reduced.  Correct 
> > me if I am wrong.
> 
> Only Karen could answer that, but as far as I can tell,
> she seems quite 
> happy with her current responsibilities as editor.  She
> delegates the 
> production side of things to Cheryl, who also seems quite
> happy with that 
> job as well (but again only Cheryl can answer there).
> 
> > There may be other people working heroically behind 
> > the scenes that could use some relief.
> 
> It's always a tricky matter of finding willing and
> competent people to 
> fill jobs.  I think we've done pretty well in adding new
> people over the 
> past 2-3 years, especially as others have transitioned
> out.  New folks 
> like Kathy, Scott, Cheryl, Ann, Larry and now Phil have
> all been 
> instrumental in getting us to where we are today.  But
> it's not like we 
> have an endless supply of interested and competent
> volunteers to choose 
> from.  As we have seen, even something as simple as
> having someone be the 
> Official Convention Photographer can turn into a mess.
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
> _______________________________________________
> AGA-mcm mailing list
> AGA-mcm@thekrib.com
> http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm
> 

_______________________________________________
AGA-mcm mailing list
AGA-mcm@thekrib.com
http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm