Re: [GSAS-board] April Board Minutes

Hi Phil:

You did a most awesome job auctioneering. I didn't buy much and Carl doesn't even have a tank, but we enjoyed your style a whole lot and Carl still talks about it. Please have a good time in Ohio and say hi to Cayle for me. I'm going to see if Matt S can fix my computer and if not, then I buckle down and buy a new one.

Susan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M. Wallace" <pwallace@u.washington.edu>
To: "GSAS board members and alumni" <gsas-board@thekrib.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 5:55:08 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] April Board Minutes

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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