In message <418F66121D9DD311A54B0000F8019788015CC358@rplmsem1.pal.roche.com>
"Thana, Peter" writes:
>The fact is though, that we didn't especially know what we were doing going
>in, but there just wasn't anyone else to help.
It really is hard to learn everything. I thought I had it all figured
out, right up until I tried to supervise the RV setup at Marina, after
about four hours of sleep. "Oh, yeah, just plug in the displays any
old way -- they're idiot proof." "Yeah, the timers are okay as long as
they are blinking, don't worry about it." Ugh. Not quite.
As an occasional event chair, I really wish that more experienced folks
would step up to learn the trailer jobs. Many times I've had nobody
signed up to work the trailer, and plenty of people with many years
of experience ready to go out and shag cones. When I'd try to get
volunteers[*] to step up, I often wound up with rookies like Peter
(more like an old-timer at this point) who were just willing to help
out any way they could. Good on them!
The trailer isn't for everyone (I get flustered trying to do card
sorting, and I make a truly lousy announcer), but if you've come
out to a year's worth of autox, you really oughta step up and learn
an extra job or two!
Kevin
kml@patheticgeek.net
[*] Before I learned to just tell people they were gonna take a job,
rather than waiting forever for someone to step forward. Take it
from me, that's about the only way to do it.
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