<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div>Will</div> <div> </div> <div>First of all, members of the nominating committee are responsible to find people to run for the office of Pres, VP, and Sec/Treas, only when no one has stepped forward.</div> <div> </div> <div>Second, it's one thing to complain about HL. But to to claim that the problem "is a shining testament to the mediocrity of our leadership", prompted me to suggest that perhaps one way to solve this problem is to get someone like you to take a position of leadership. </div> <div> </div> <div>Even of you don't want become a member of the Board, the next best thing you can do is to find someone who shares your views who is willing to spend countless hours working for the benefit of the members.</div> <div> </div> <div>Wim  </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Encore Pianos <encorepianos@metrocast.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 1:14 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] dues payment fiasco<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_4d4605bd-fb65-45a9-96aa-e1106e4e837e> <STYLE>#AOLMsgPart_2_4d4605bd-fb65-45a9-96aa-e1106e4e837e td{color: black;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; 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color:#000066;} #AOLMsgPart_2_4d4605bd-fb65-45a9-96aa-e1106e4e837e span.BalloonTextChar {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} #AOLMsgPart_2_4d4605bd-fb65-45a9-96aa-e1106e4e837e span.EmailStyle34 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; color:black;} #AOLMsgPart_2_4d4605bd-fb65-45a9-96aa-e1106e4e837e .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} #AOLMsgPart_2_4d4605bd-fb65-45a9-96aa-e1106e4e837e div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </STYLE> <div class=WordSection1> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Wow, Wim, you are on the nominating committee.  That means you are in a position to potentially affect the resolution of these issues past the present administration, which is meaningful since it is unlikely that anything will get done while we have the present officers.  </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Your comment to me is interesting.  You throw it back at me as if I am a whiner and complainer simply because it was almost impossible for me to do one of the most important functions of our organization – paying dues – and that despite the fact that the software barely functions even when all my information was entered correctly.  I see where your values lie – completely ignore the problems by (shooting, dissing) the messenger.  Should I take that to mean that you simply don’t care whether the software functions well, since you make no mention of the problems?  </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Your requirement that anyone who complains has to be nominated for President is unworkable I think.  That would mean that about 1000 people would have their names put into nomination.  Nor do you seem to have any interest in my core competencies to be the best person for that job.  I submit that merely complaining does not make me or anyone else fit for the job, and you know almost nothing about me otherwise.</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Your comment is offhand and should not be taken seriously.  And you disserve me and others by ignoring the issues even as you are far more in a position to do something about them than I.</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">I think that it is legitimately within your purview to seriously look for someone who can skillfully focus on resolving software issues along with having the other skills required to be President.  I am not that person, but you may be able to find someone who is.  </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Most sincerely yours, </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Will Truitt</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</A> [<A href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B><A href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</A><br> <B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:53 PM<br> <B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><br> <B>Subject:</B> Re: [pianotech] dues payment fiasco</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Will</SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I'm on the Nominating Committee. I presume I'll see your name entered as the nominee for President? If not that ambitious, at least RVP?</SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Wim</SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> </div> <div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> <div> <div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Encore Pianos <<A href="mailto:encorepianos@metrocast.net"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">encorepianos@metrocast.net</SPAN></A>><br> To: pianotech <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">pianotech@ptg.org</SPAN></A>><br> Sent: Tue, Jan 31, 2012 5:37 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] dues payment fiasco</SPAN></div> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_4529a050-f60f-4c0d-bcba-0e235c351680> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><IMG id=_x0000_i1025 border=0 src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCE0A4.38985EF0" width=303 height=183></SPAN></div> <div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Ok, so I am going to do some venting now.  I just spent a frustrating 50 minutes trying to pay my dues, and by some miracle was finally able to actually do so.  It only took me about 50 tries to log in, although my username and password information were entered correctly.  It simply just kept going around in circles and kept asking me for the same info on the page I started with, again and again and again.  Searching for help with this was the same frustrating, counterintuitive, and all but nonexistent effort that it was a year ago – it is still the same broken piece of shit software that it was when they introduced it and  nothing meaningful has changed.  It still navigates like the software was written by a bunch of 12 year olds during recess – pretzel logic.  </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">That this monstrosity continues in its present form is a shining testament to the mediocrity of our leadership, where the only answer to our problems are occasional platitudes and telling us that if we were wise and good people, we would learn to love these shackles.  After all, they’re just doing it for our own good.  </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I wish that I believed that our present leadership is dealing with the problems with Higher Idiotlogic software in a meaningful manner, or even considers it important to make a serious, ongoing and ultimately constructive effort to resolve the issues, and  actually make using it something less excruciating than dragging your fingernails across a chalk board.  Nor do I believe they will make the effort to move to something else if the issues cannot be resolved, no matter how inferior the product is.  After a year of this, I have lost my faith in them.</SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Will Truitt</SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </font>