At 12:29 PM 4/8/03 -0400, K. Gordon wrote: >For those of you who might not know what malcontent means... > >someone who is discontented, esp. with the government, and ready to make >trouble. > >I am shocked at the use of this word towards those of us CC's who signed the >petition from our so called leaders. This alone should tell those of you >who are unsure of voting because you don't know enough about the situation >that you indeed should vote. We need leaders that will treat us like the >humans we are and not like we are some kind of puppets under their power >hungry control. We are NOT ready to make trouble, we just want all CC's to >be treated fairly. We MUST stand up and stand together. Part of the job of SC entails listening to folks come to ones door and ask questions - to which there may not be easy answers - if at all, make complaints about other folks, get notice of a problem, seeking assistance and many other scenarios. Each incident is weighed on its merits - do I make mistakes? You bet I do, yet for some reason the SC is asked to be right 100% of the time, forgetting that the SC is a faulty human as well. Could some situations have been handled differently? Yes. Would the results have been the same? Perhaps. When folks though take off in a huff without listening for an explanation, refuse to answer, keep throwing up roadblocks to communication, its rather hard for anyone (including the SC) to make things right to the satisfaction of all. Rules, guidelines, bylaws can not cover every possible situation for mankind is adept at coming up with new problems unforeseen by the creators of rules - thus requiring revisions of rules to cover new situations. In the vacuum of no rules to cover x situation the enforcer of rules must use their best judgment - in consultation with others - to find the best possible response to the situation that will come closest to what rules do exist. For those who think this is a power trip - it is not. I seek to serve the USGenWeb project - GAGenWeb - to its fullest potential - to have it be a better place than I found it in. I do not want to be SC forever as some have infered. I do though wish to finish the task I've started. Tim

> Each incident is weighed on its merits - do I make mistakes? You bet > I do, yet for some reason the SC is asked to be right 100% of the > time, forgetting that the SC is a faulty human as well. No, this is where you are wrong. Nobody expects you to be right 100% of the time. We do though expect when you are wrong to say so. That's all anybody ever wants from their Leaders in life. > Could some situations have been handled differently? Yes. It is *NEVER* to late to correct an error. > Would the results have been the same? Perhaps. When folks though > take off in a huff without listening for an explanation, refuse to > answer, keep throwing up roadblocks to communication, its rather hard > for anyone (including the SC) to make things right to the satisfaction > of all. Again, it's because we are volunteers. Often we aren't treated as such, more as employees. We are going to get upset and react much more because we are here for the passion of what we believe in. This needs to be considered and ALWAYS taken into account. > For those who think this is a power trip - it is not. I seek to serve > the USGenWeb project - GAGenWeb - to its fullest potential - to have > it be a better place than I found it in. I do not want to be SC > forever as some have infered. I do though wish to finish the task > I've started. Now, Tim... It will never hit it's fullest potential, that is the nature of potential, it can never be fulfilled. LOL. So can you be more specific, what tasks and what is the progress indicator? That isn't saying, hurry up and finish and move on, that's asking what tasks that you mention above. Derek Nichols Echols County, GA