Re: [GSAS-board] April Board Minutes: not from Phil

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Sat, 2 May 2009, phil wrote:

> This is not Phil, this is Calye.
>
> Eric, the way you acted behind that desk after Phil came back (after asking you 
> to cover for a
> few minutes) was like a four year old.  You stomped around back there and had a 
> little hissy
> fit, bitching to anyone within earshot.  Very unprofessional and completely NOT 
> what was needed
> anywhere in that room during the auction. If you want to have a blow out, leave 
> the room. Don't
> subject the rest of the club and the rest of the club guests to your rant.

Yes, that's true.  I am sorry for how I acted.

On the other hand... because I reacted childishly, that somehow excuses 
Phil's bullying?  Because it was rude enough that I REACTED to it instead 
of carefully composing an e-mail later, so he could easily blow it off one 
more time like he's been doing every other instance?  Like he's now said 
in the next e-mail reply... "I don't care much who said what or who acted 
selfishly or not."

I get that he doesn't care.  I *do* care who acted selfishly or not.  I am 
*sorry* that others in the room had to hear a rant from me.

> I have heard Phil ask you MANY times if you or anyone else wants to auction.  I 
> don't know about
> others, but you ALWAYS say "oh, no, that's ok", so don't bitch about it later.

Oh no, he *never* asks if anyone wants to auction.  Others ask 
HIM, politely, as in "you need anyone to cover for the next half hour?" 
and he says "oh, I'll keep going."  "Are you sure, I can handle it for a 
bit?"  "No, I can keep going..." "OK whatever, have at it."

And what's going on underneath this particular dance is: "Hey, can I 
auction?" "No. My auction." "OK, not going to escalate this."


> AFA errors, there were six adult runners, not the little kids this time (and 
> none of them are
> ever going to say boo to the auctioneer anyway) and even with a dozen computer 
> people, selling
> twelve items in a minute is NOT efficient. The problem was errors due to speed, 
> not due to lack
> of people. I know that because I was processing all of them.

Again, we've been able to do this for years.  The runners *do* say "hang 
on".  It would have settled into a good pattern had I been able to keep 
going.  Yes, it was a mistake to start right in on it at full-bore without 
ramping up.  But again, nobody ever said "we're getting errors."  The mic 
was yanked away before we could adjust.

I saw errors on the slips when Phil was auctioning too.  Missing bidders, 
ambiguously-written numbers, missing bids, and tons of missing 
descriptions.  I suspect that a pause to remind the runners of keeping 
things legible and complete would have gone a long way.

Anyway, I'm done with this.  I've said my mind on it.  I need to move on.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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