Tuesdays!?
Ahem!
I have not been here in a while, but recent events have left me little choice
other than to re-subscribe.
Having been shocked yesterday by finding that IFIS pub meets have moved to
Tuesdays, and having done my homework and looked through the archives of the
various fori where opinions on this matter have already been exchanged, I
feel that I should also say a few words on the subject.
First and foremost, I don't believe in euphemisms, and I am liable to be
blunt. It is not my intention to be rude, but at the same time I make no
apologies to those who cannot take it straight up.
I find it utterly rude and irresponsible that this "change of schedule" was
not announced through ANY usual communications channels at any point. It was
not announced on any of the standard mailing lists, and it was not announced
at the pub last Thursday.
More to the point, if what I am told is correct, Thursday meets were not even
mentioned at the meet on Tuesday until it was pointed out by one of the older
members (you know who you are), only to be told off for "undermining the
chairbeing's authority", or words to that effect. I will, however, give
whatever due benefit of the doubt there may be left between the possibilities
of incompetence and/or malice.
I believe that at the very LEAST an apology is due from the current committee
for the gross mishandling of the situation.
I am going to keep my educatedly guessing paranoia in check this time, but at
the moment it is looking like the forwarded message actually came from a
different list that was set up for IFIS (somebody please correct me if I am
wrong). This seems rather odd and difficult to excuse since we have had fully
functional and managed lists for IFIS for years. Can we please have an
explanation?
I'd love to be proven wrong on this, but my "intuition" tells me that Nick
will not be receiving a list of new members.
I hope somebody will be kind enough to forward my questions to whatever list
our current committee reads. I know for a fact that there are several people
on this list that eagerly await the response.
Kind regards.
Gordan
I have not been here in a while, but recent events have left me little choice
other than to re-subscribe.
Having been shocked yesterday by finding that IFIS pub meets have moved to
Tuesdays, and having done my homework and looked through the archives of the
various fori where opinions on this matter have already been exchanged, I
feel that I should also say a few words on the subject.
First and foremost, I don't believe in euphemisms, and I am liable to be
blunt. It is not my intention to be rude, but at the same time I make no
apologies to those who cannot take it straight up.
I find it utterly rude and irresponsible that this "change of schedule" was
not announced through ANY usual communications channels at any point. It was
not announced on any of the standard mailing lists, and it was not announced
at the pub last Thursday.
More to the point, if what I am told is correct, Thursday meets were not even
mentioned at the meet on Tuesday until it was pointed out by one of the older
members (you know who you are), only to be told off for "undermining the
chairbeing's authority", or words to that effect. I will, however, give
whatever due benefit of the doubt there may be left between the possibilities
of incompetence and/or malice.
I believe that at the very LEAST an apology is due from the current committee
for the gross mishandling of the situation.
I am going to keep my educatedly guessing paranoia in check this time, but at
the moment it is looking like the forwarded message actually came from a
different list that was set up for IFIS (somebody please correct me if I am
wrong). This seems rather odd and difficult to excuse since we have had fully
functional and managed lists for IFIS for years. Can we please have an
explanation?
I'd love to be proven wrong on this, but my "intuition" tells me that Nick
will not be receiving a list of new members.
I hope somebody will be kind enough to forward my questions to whatever list
our current committee reads. I know for a fact that there are several people
on this list that eagerly await the response.
Kind regards.
Gordan