[CAUT] What to do???

[Porritt, David]

Paul:

It sounds like you've notified all the people who should be notified.  Make sure you have done it in writing and keep a copy.  Always CYA!

All that Alan Crane suggested is very good.  Making friends, stroking egos is always positive if it comes with requisite sincerity.

dave


David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu>

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:52 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] What to do???


Hi all!

I always appreciate your input.  Here's a new twist...

Our building is currently dangerously dry.  When Richard West was here, the administrative secretary always told him to contact the "facilities" people, directly, across campus who controls the campus buildings to turn on the steam to remedy the situation. I was also told this when I started to do this and and have, regularly. This year,   I have tried for the last 3 weeks to do this with no results.  Our humidity, now, is below 20% and the pianos have gone completely wacky as you can imagine.

After sending several messages to facilities, I got no results.  I sent another to our director, and another to the senior vice chancellor ( a customer of mine for her personal piano) and other esteemed folks.  I got a "cease  correspondance" message back from our director.(probably embarassed)  He now states that I have to report to the finance/business director, who responds to him, who responds to the Dean of Fine Arts, who then calls facilities to turn on the humidity!!!!!!  Is this the biggest load of political crap you've ever heard of?? He states that I have to go through the channels of authority to get anything done in "such a large university:.  With this crap, I might see the steam turned on in January!!!! If ever....How come Richard was able to just get the steam turned on?

I now fear cracking boards, loose ribs, separating bridges, failing glue joints of every kind, and the like.  I then went to the "finance/business manager" (?) and she said bluntly that she had no time to deal with this issue today.

Should I just throw up my hands and say, "whatever"? or should I go to Home Depot and buy 110 buckets to put water in and set them under each piano to try to help them through their "hospice"????

HELP!!!!

Paul
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