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Re: [AGA-mcm] workloads? workers?
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Phil Edwards wrote:
His main reason though, was he didn't feel welcomed. After doing all the
work promoting the aquascaping contest he felt snubbed and unwelcome by folks
he didn't name. He was very willing to take on more responsibilities, but he
got the impression that we didn't want him.
That's really too bad. I would say (and feel free to forward this back to
him) that Carlos' PR was the single reason last year's contest was as
succesful as it was. I made it a point to thank him at every possible
location (website, letters, and on the video). I don't know who else he
would have dealt with in "the organization" other than me, so he's
probably talking about me.
The one snag in the whole experience was that it turned out he REALLY
wanted to judge. And after all the PR help he gave, I really wanted him
to judge, but not the same contest he was doing all the PR for. I had
already accepted you (Phil) as the one judge who ASKED to judge... I
wasn't going to add a second one. Unfortunately, he went off in a snit
over that, thinking I had some kind of personal thing against him.
I think there were personality
problems with Carlos, but others who had done work with the AGA on various
projects and conventions agreed. He also said (and was supported by others)
that the AGA management is basically out of touch and only interested in
doing their own thing.
I'd agree we're out of touch, but disagree we're only interested in "doing
our own thing". But maybe that's just a correlary. My hope was that in
bringing in new folks such as yourself to help take things over, it would
ultimately make the AGA more "in touch".
I'm sure that the folks involved in the GWAPA convention feel this way
especially. I am sure that Jay thinks we're complete snobs for how we've
treated him over the photo gallery.
I think we have an active and willing
younger crowd out there that needs to be tapped or we'll have a lot of
one-time memberships.
Are there any easy to do volunteer type jobs that we could outsource to
members?
Something that now *does* occur to me is that I would like to retire from
the aquascaping contest. Not exactly a beginner job, but I'd be willing
to help render assistance to a new coordinator. But it's been five years,
and I'm pretty tired of the abuse from the folks I'm out-of-touch with.
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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