Re: Vendor Contact for Contest (fwd)

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Karen Randall wrote:

> I think the problem here is that James is incredibly (sometimes annoyingly)
> detail oriented, and Charlene is (sometimes annoyingly) not.  Charlene
> doesn't micro-manage anything, so I am fairly sure she gave Diana and Luis
> the list, said "go for it" and has left them on their own.

This is actually what I had theorized to James what may be going on!  Wow!
I think based on the non-response of Luis and Diana, she did just that.


> I suggest that later today (I can't do it now) I talk to Charlene, and find
> out what's going on on their end.  Then we suggest" we "help" the convention
> committee by letting James and his crew, with Diana and Luis, coordinate the
> WHOLE donation,vendor, advertising drive.

This sounds great.  I really do think that James will do an overall better 
job at this than Charlene did.  He's annoying as hell, but he has 
really good follow-through.  And he'll start NOW.

Another thing I didn't mention in the mail last night was that I e-mailed
James a reply to his mail and said that if he talks to Charlene on the
*phone*, he will most likely get the answers he's looking for; if he keeps
e-mailing, he won't (just the way Charlene works).  I suggested he write
all the questions down like a script, pick up the phone, and call her, and
then make sure to ask every question and wait for an answer.

So the only bummer about you calling Charlene is that it triangles once
again, and James gets away without having to actually confront his
aversary (and fears) directly.  Do I sound like a parent or what?  
("Would you like me to dial the number for you?")

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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