Newsletter person: one of our team has been upset a great deal by something that was said at the Masquerade. We think running an apology in the next issue of the newsletter, that's going to print in 20 mins, would be a good idea. Chair: Um, yes. Good idea. Please draft something and we will approve wording prior to press. Chair to Executive: Someone was upset by something said at the Masquerade. We don't know what it was. Was anyone there? Executive: Nope, too busy organising stuff/sleeping/eating Chair: Okay, newsletter is drafting something. I will check and approve. Please make an effort to find out what actually happened. Me: Yep, will do.
Which I did, at the very next opportunity, as one of the few execs actually out on the floor interacting with people. We didn't even know who the "upset" person was and, to be honest, I didn't even know you had MCed the Masquerade until that meeting.
So, if you want to blame Perry and Rose for not speaking to you, then you should equally blame *me* as a member of the executive for not locating you quick enough in order to ask you what happened and then failing to feed the info back to the Chairs in a timely manner. It was a task that had been delegated to me as the chairs had other commitments and I did not.
I know you have a personal dislike for the way Rose and Perry operate but I believe they actually made the correct decision to print an apology in the newsletter. They were trying to find a quick, stop-gap solution to a very complex problem and I would have probably reacted in the same way if faced with a similar problem.
And, really, the convention is over. One of my friends has had a most unpleasant holiday and two others feel that they keep needing to deal with unfortunate sets of circumstances that has also spoilt the convention for them.
And me? well, I had a great time at the convention but discussions like this seem to want to try and turn my enjoyment of the convention into something full of regret, despair, grief and hatred. Yes, it is true I had a shit time in the year leading up to the convention. It is also true that I really dislike programming conventions. Conversely, since I first programmed a convention, I have not enjoyed a single Australian convention that I didn't program - hence why I continue programming conventions. If I don't, there's really no point me attending. Despite my hatred of the task, I *really* enjoyed Aussiecon 4 and, unfortunately, the initial part of your response to me indicates that we are actually no longer on the same wavelength.
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Date: 2010-09-11 03:29 pm (UTC)it went something like this:
Newsletter person: one of our team has been upset a great deal by something that was said at the Masquerade. We think running an apology in the next issue of the newsletter, that's going to print in 20 mins, would be a good idea.
Chair: Um, yes. Good idea. Please draft something and we will approve wording prior to press.
Chair to Executive: Someone was upset by something said at the Masquerade. We don't know what it was. Was anyone there?
Executive: Nope, too busy organising stuff/sleeping/eating
Chair: Okay, newsletter is drafting something. I will check and approve. Please make an effort to find out what actually happened.
Me: Yep, will do.
Which I did, at the very next opportunity, as one of the few execs actually out on the floor interacting with people. We didn't even know who the "upset" person was and, to be honest, I didn't even know you had MCed the Masquerade until that meeting.
So, if you want to blame Perry and Rose for not speaking to you, then you should equally blame *me* as a member of the executive for not locating you quick enough in order to ask you what happened and then failing to feed the info back to the Chairs in a timely manner. It was a task that had been delegated to me as the chairs had other commitments and I did not.
I know you have a personal dislike for the way Rose and Perry operate but I believe they actually made the correct decision to print an apology in the newsletter. They were trying to find a quick, stop-gap solution to a very complex problem and I would have probably reacted in the same way if faced with a similar problem.
And, really, the convention is over. One of my friends has had a most unpleasant holiday and two others feel that they keep needing to deal with unfortunate sets of circumstances that has also spoilt the convention for them.
And me? well, I had a great time at the convention but discussions like this seem to want to try and turn my enjoyment of the convention into something full of regret, despair, grief and hatred. Yes, it is true I had a shit time in the year leading up to the convention. It is also true that I really dislike programming conventions. Conversely, since I first programmed a convention, I have not enjoyed a single Australian convention that I didn't program - hence why I continue programming conventions. If I don't, there's really no point me attending. Despite my hatred of the task, I *really* enjoyed Aussiecon 4 and, unfortunately, the initial part of your response to me indicates that we are actually no longer on the same wavelength.