in reply to Re^3: How do janitors get fired? (sneaky)
in thread How do janitors get fired?
Yes, it was sneaky. That is part of why it worked as well as it did.
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I'm sorry that you missed the opportunity to remain in janitors, jeffa. But we're going to keep with our decision to not give second chances in this case. Thank you for your years of service, they were appreciated.
The decision to "not give a second chance in this case" is wrong, IMHO, and specially in jeffa's case.
Why cut somebody from doing a service to the community they ardently wish to do, but keeping others that just happened to be logged in at some point within an arbitrary timeframe, and were able to express a "me too"? (which "me too" is only to illustrate, not that I think any of the janitors lack merit).
What troubles me most is the sneaky part. Ostensibly, that worked well, but it might have done more harm than good. Isn't it okay for a cabal to be offsite for a couple of days (or maybe weeks) for some reasons? e.g. for serious holidays, which means no computer to some? or having to meet a really deadly deadline?
This sounds a lot like coming back from holidays and having one's house demolished for a bypass road and an officer declaring "well,you weren't here when we knocked"... an Arthur Dent style of fate.
Really, for a Perl related website, all this sounds very startling and weird to me. Isn't nearly all in Perl about context? and doesn't perl try hard to validate that and please both caller and callee? Stick to the wisdom of your language :-)
If the decision to "keep with our decision" doesn't have an exception, the system likely will panic one day. And if even a monk like jeffa which is here since 2000-06-19 and number 13 in Saints in our Book doesn't get his exclusion reconsidered, I kindly ask for removal of myself from pedagogues and pmdev, reasons being:
- I can't provide 365/52/7/24 service to the community
- I'm new to internals and might not be quick enough getting fit to contribute
- as a cabal, I didn't contribute anything yet (my policy ever has been "lurk, before you speak")
But I'm sure, you'll be able to recruit somebody else which meets the criteria.
On a personal note, tye, that back-patting "thank you" to jeffa comes across really as very disrespectful. I wonder if it really is. What's really up?
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