Wow! Your chapter is sure different from the ones I have seen and/or been involved with. Out here we have some VERY well respected associate members including the illustrious Bill Smith (whose now about 83 years old, I think) who for years made the Golden Hammer Award for PTG! We have a number of well-loved associate members in our chapter. They are appreciated because they contribute much to the health of the chapter. They actively participate and give back much to the organization - they also have a lot of respect for the RPT designation. We also have some associates who are not well respected because they don't come to meetings, they don't give back to the chapter, yet they use ptg to give clients the impression that they are working at a professional standard when sometimes they don't really know what they are doing. You make your reputation. The fact is, most chapters have some members who know sh#!@# from shinola. Techs whose philosophy is more in line with the former tend to not like coming to meetings. 'nuf said. On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Duaine & Laura Hechler <dahechler at att.net>wrote: > John Formsma wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Duaine & Laura Hechler <dahechler at att.net > > wrote: > >> SO.... Why should RPT status be permanent without recertification. > > > You're not in PTG, so why should you care? > > -- > JF > > I was for about 7 years until I figured out the PTG that: > > - First, Associates are not allowed to use the PTG logo > > - Associates can't use PTG forms and other resources *reserved for RPT's* > > - Don't care about Associates being left alone to be Associates > (with regards to being a tech and just being associated with PTG) > > - Associates not being good enough to service the public > (even though I know several in our local chapter that are excellent techs > for over 15 years) > > - Making Associates feel like second or third class citizens (until they > become an RPT) > > - Upright and player techs are made to feel worthless > > - If you don't service grands then your second or third class citizens > > - The Journal, for the most part, is geared to grands. > (When, at least, in my area - uprights - rule) > > - ETD's are,* for the most part,* considered useless and *can't *be > accepted by hard core people > > - If you can't aural tune, you have no business in this business. > (For the record, I use the ETD to set the first string and I do all aural > tuning on the unisons.) > > - Associates being overall snubbed until they become RPT's > > That should about cover it. > > -- > Duaine Hechler > Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ > Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding > Reed Organ Society Member > Florissant, MO 63034 > (314) 838-5587dahechler at att.netwww.hechlerpianoandorgan.com > -- > Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090405/3c0df105/attachment.html>
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