THREE TAS! | 2007-04-08
What me think of the long piece below was Lord Nelson volunteering to be my THIRD technical assistant in taking care of my problems with this log. It is important to you to realize HOW I delegate tasks.
First of all, I do not to be a go-between. That is what STAFF is EXPERT at doing. At first, of course, one needs to be VERY careul to check in before doing everything, to get a feel for the rules. As I said, AT FIRST staff had to check with me a lot. But I can still avoid being a go-between. In the ITEM below, I showed how I got three people TOGETHER to begin with.
Tom took the lead here, he is machinating even as we speak. Pain asks "what's next?" Both are good responses. A staffer must find his own niche at this level. We're not hiring day labor here, we're hiring BRAINS.
So we need to start with complete meetings via e-mail. That means that ALL correspondence should be by e-mail with all four of us present. I don't want to have to report to each one what the other is doing.
So I need permission from all three TAs to give each of the others his e-mail address and any other contact info he feels might be useful. The e-mail is all that is essential, but I am VERY touchy about nettiquette relating to e-mail.
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After all those years of being available day and night, and I mean REALLY day and night, I am exhausted with it, so don't feel like I insulted your mother if I don't respond quickly. We have the ORIGINAL TA, Kelso, and he IS available 24/7. If you can't reach him by phone quickly, PM him. He makes me in my prime look like a particularly depressed sloth.