<VV> The tent and PR

[Charles Fregeau]

Wasn't it John Lennon who said "Life is what happens when you're making
other plans?".

I've had similar problems at work.  I fix problems.

I get a call from someone saying the problem is A, or B or even C.  So I go
over to their desk with my mental checklist for problem A, or B or C in my
head.  Usually turns out the problem is X, Y, or even Zed! (Only a few of us
crazy hams know what a Zed is in the 48.)  

What's worse is an 'onion' problem.  The core problem is under several other
layers of problems that have been allowed to happen without anybody checking
on it.   We have 250 computers and I can count on the fingers of one hand
all the people we've got to work on them, so we don't get to practice
pro-active maintenance as much as we'd like.  I'm working on one of those
tonight when I get home.  I need to download software and our current
connection to the internet is so SLOW that it's faster for me to drive home,
down load it to my laptop, and drive back than it is to sit at work and wait
for it to download.   

Charles

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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of David Neale
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:05 PM
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Subject: <VV> The tent and PR

<<Of Course General Patton said---One minute after H-Hour on D Day, you
don't have a plan anymore---just have to see how things work out.>>

Quite.  Which boxer, (was it Mike Tyson?), who said something along the
lines of ... "everybody has a plan until they get a punch in the face".
Presumably, most people, having suffered the trifling inconvenience of a
punch in the face from Mike Tyson, would never recall their own name, let
alone whether they ever had a plan or not.  

CORSA is special enough that it simply must succeed ... it has done so
through crises before today, and by the wit of all those involved, it has
survived.  Maybe some things have to change ... that is the case with most
organisations .. but core functions should never be up for disposal.
Despite Mike Tyson's quip, true insofar as it goes, a plan is always a
prerequisite. 

And, despite the somewhat grim tone of some of the comments from
contributors here, sharp comment, provided it is constructive, is essential
to enable close inspection of all aspects or an organisation's structure and
operation.

If comments are not constructive, they shouldn't be made. It's as simple as
that.  

I'd only add that, being a Brit, there appears precious little that I can do
to assist CORSA month-on-month in any voluntary sense ... but if someone
would entrust me with any chores which can be sent backward and forward by
e-mail, in the form of clerking office work, I would be delighted to help.

David Neale

Poised in anticipation over the keyboard in leafy Leicestershire, England

'65 Monza 140HP 4-speed convertible


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