SCN: Re: On delegation, prayer, and prey

[Steve Guest]

Hi Al
Yep my fingers and brain were slightly out of gear as you have so eloquently
pointed out and the spell checker didn't miss a heart beat on that one
either.  I have now stopped rolling around on the floor and sanity is
restored (well as far as it can be in accepting this position).  Thanks for
starting the year with such a fine and entertaining communication.

But you have started me thinking - if we do have a volunteer appreciation
night at Farestart this year - this could bring a whole new meaning to the
event.

I now hope that the rest of this year's emails will be as informative and
entertaining as this one.

Happy New Year to you and all the SCN volunteers and users that are reading
this - and anyone else!
Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Boss" <alboss at scn.org>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 11:50 PM
Subject: BD: On delegation, prayer, and prey


> Steve Guest wrote:
>
> > ... a competent manager would not oversee all projects, they
> > delegate - and then in SCN's case they prey.
>
>
> Actually, Steve, I think you meant that in our case, they _pray_ (not
> "prey"). A manager who delegates, then preys, would be more likely to
> work in a corporate setting wherein they appear to base prestige on how
> many subordinates one manages to chew up and spit out. (Most of us can
> name at least one of those...)
>
> At least at SCN we don't resort to eating our volunteers. (We just tie
> them to email lists and hit them over the head with the same arguments
> year after year after year.)
>
> Then again, I don't really know that someone's not out there consuming
> our volunteers. That could explain some of the disappearances. I always
> wondered what happened to Bob K.
>
> There's a fundraising opportunity somewhere here. The SCN cookbook? You
> eat how you act, right? I bet I already know folks who could contribute
> a lot of flambee recipes, others whose numerous dishes would all start
> with the instructions "Muddle everything together until it loses
> cohesion," and still others whose meal suggestions would consist almost
> entirely of barrels of vinegar. Heck, we could have a couple chapters on
> nuts!
>
> Must stop before I get even sillier. Happy new year, everyone!
>
> Al


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