On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Kevin White wrote: >Why does the Webmaster think it's not a part of this job function >to add the minutes himself? >This is the key question. Firstly, I don't know what the Foundation's webmaster's actual job title and job description are. Pete appears to be functioning as Pacifica CTO even though Jon Almeleh has some similar title. As far as I've been able to determine, neither is a subordinate to the other, and I don't know how various responsibilities have been divided except from the work done. That said, if any webmaster duties were in Pete's job description when he was hired, that description probably only referred to the Pacifica.org site and not the several other sites he has since launched, and it probably never mentioned governance postings. So, to answer your question "Why does the Webmaster think it's not a part of this job function to add the minutes himself?" my guess would be that it is not in his original job description, that it has never been added to that job description, and that he has a belief and understanding that his actual job responsibilities somehow correspond to those that are in his actual job description. >Why do national office employees feel they are above the directives >of the foundation? The ED and CFO report to the PNB. Other National Office employees do not report to the PNB and Pacifica personnel do not receive their instructions from the PNB or any LSB or individual Director or individual LSB Member. No National Office employee has had an opportunity to demonstrate that they "feel they are above the directives of the foundation" if they have not received directives from the ED or CFO that they feel they are above. When you have evidence that some such directive was sent and received and that some such "feeling aboveness" was demonstrated, then we can speculate about why those particular employees may feel something along the lines of their demonstration. >In my opinion he should be removed and a profession put in this place. You are quick with opinions in the absence of data. >Further, this new person should have the added responsibility to add >content to the other official websites, thus saving the foundation >thousands of dollars a year by streamlining the job to a single person. What makes you think that all non-station Pacifica websites are not currently administered by Pete Korakis, in addition to his other technical duties? >This is not too much work, in fact being a webmaster is largely sitting >around doing nothing. I'm sure the various station webmasters will be happy to hear this appreciation of their work. How many websites are you paid to sit around doing nothing with? It sounds like a nice gig. --Terry Goodman