Re: [GSAS-board] April Board Minutes

["Paul M. Wallace" <pwallace@u.washington.edu>]

Phil:

You are looking right at me too as I would love to have some mike time to 
auction too.  I love helping out but just being a runner (or holding items for 
the camera) is much less fulfilling.  So lets query the guard to as who wants 
time and set a schedule for the very next auction.  I will get a bigger room.

As you see in the notes, we have refunded the cash for Bob.

-Paul

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, phil wrote:

> Paul M. Wallace writes: 
>>> However, we need 
>> a bigger space for both auctions and cycle through the clubs other 
>> auctioneers. 
>
> Okay, I'm in Ohio till tomorrow night, but I need to make a comment here. 
> Indeed I asked for a bigger room - we made do and it was fine. But I'm really 
> getting tired of hearing the second thing.  Eric, I'm looking RIGHT AT YOU. 
> When I left the room to pee during the auction, and you took over, you 
> hammered 
> thru the items SO FAST that there were six errors in the short time you were 
> on 
> the mic.  Then you sat down and proceeded to bitch under your breath to 
> whoever 
> would listen that I "just came back and took over" and "it needs to go 
> faster, 
> faster" then you sat there and huffed and pouted to yourself. Yeah, I heard 
> and 
> saw every word of that, don't think I didn't. Need I remind you that we 
> hammered through a record number of items in FOUR HOURS.  Yes, I'm sure you 
> would have liked to have it done in two, so you could get on with your 
> Saturday, but it took exactly as long as it took - it is pointless to rush 
> things when all you're going to do is create mistakes.  And may I also remind 
> the board that I have repeatedly said I am more than happy to let someone 
> else 
> auctioneer, or run the auction however they see fit, all they have to do is 
> ask. To this point, no one has asked.  Instead, each time I offer, you all 
> say 
> "Oh, no you go ahead.", then complain about not getting time to be auctioneer 
> later.  I'm tired of the passive-aggressiveness.  If you want time as 
> auctioneer, say so (and we'll make a schedule and stick to it at future 
> auctions)or stop complaining about it. That being the case, I will be as  as 
> efficient an auctioneer as possible.  If anyone has an issue with me, or how 
> I 
> auctioneer, or how I choose to run the auctions, or would like to take over 
> being in charge of the annual auction, speak now or forever hold your peace. 
> Life is too short to have these pissing matches among friends, and if the 
> "old 
> guard" has a better, more efficient (and error-free) way of doing things, 
> that 
> isn't simply "old guard bitchiness", I'm all ears.  Unless you can auctioneer 
> at ridiculous speeds without creating unacceptable amounts of errors, I would 
> suggest that perhaps I'm onto something good here and am better left alone to 
> do it, new guy or not. If the case is that the auction is too long, then we 
> need to further limit the number of lots each person can bring and not have 
> ANY 
> donations. However, may I remind all of you that this is our ANNUAL auction 
> and 
> makes money for the entire year of speakers and rent. Further, the Vancouver 
> auctioon had only 20% more lots, but took eight hours to finish, so we're 
> really not doing bad at all in under four hours. Please let me know offline 
> if 
> anyone has any issues with this.  Otherwise, I will consider this issue 
> closed 
> for further discussion.  Seriously.  If the only thing anyone has to complain 
> about after the auction is that they didn't get mic time, well then I guess 
> we 
> had ourselves a fine auction after all. Phil
>


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