On 6/18/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 6/18/07 4:10 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I was describing, not prescribing. For better or worse, your RFA is the place where you essentially voluntarily put yourself under the microscope. In a way, it's like a job interview, with all that entails.
It's quite rare for a company to put all job interviews on a closed circuit TV network to its entire staff so that even the most menial employees can vote on whether that interviewee will get a management job.
It has happened, famously, with some workers' cooperatives, and they inevitably fail for obvious reasons. Yet we persist in doing it here -- and worse, because we have no idea who our "menial employees" are, or whether we have one person filling several jobs -- using the excuse that adminship is "no big deal." Ditch that attitude, and we would quickly find a way to deal with some of our problems. So long as it's in place, there's no will to find creative solutions.