[CAUT] What to do???

[reggaepass at aol.com]

.. and you may want to back up that ego stroking with the favorite libation of certain key people.  (It worked with getting the facilities mechanic to do some welding ON company time but OFF the books for me!)



YMMV,




Alan Eder


-----Original Message-----
From: Porritt, David <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 4:09 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] What to do???






















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



 






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 an
d 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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