Re: Jobs and Cookies

["Nancy Dalton" <nancykd@malibu.ea.net>]

Poster: "Nancy Dalton" <nancykd@malibu.ea.net>

> Poster: Dawn Skully/HNS <Dawn_Skully@notesgw.hns.com>
> 
> Is this reason enough to add another bundle of bureaucracy? Depends upon the 
> answers to three questions. Will the SCA recognize and reward folks who are 
> just doing side work (ie unwarranted and unofficial)? Is it probable that 
> someday people doing WWW work will want The Cookie? (Now for the good one...) 
> If the answer to the first question is no and the answer to the second is yes, 
> do we think enough of the work that these folks are doing to put up with 
> another bundle of bureaucracy so they have the chance to be officially and 
> publically recognized for their work?

A different phrasing of your questions would result in quite 
different answers.  

Do people with warrants get cookies? Sometimes yes and sometimes no, 
there is no actual connection between having a warrant and getting a cookie.
   "I have never seen a Knight's meeting where someone suggested that
   a candidate was less worthy because he wasn't a squire, or a Laurel's
   meeting where someone suggested that a candidate was less worthy
   because she wasn't an apprentice, or a Pelican meeting where someone
  ..... suggested that a candidate was less worthy because she/he/it 
   had no warrant."  (Earl Daffyd ap Gwystl)

Do people who succeed at whatever they do want to be recognized as 
having succeeded? Yes.  But the only person anyone has true control 
over is themselves.  If someone hates jumping through hoops, but 
believes that by jumping through certain hoops they will get a cookie 
from someone, then they will feel unhappy and disappointed if that 
someone happens to be looking the other way during the performance.  
On the other hand if the act of jumping through hoops makes the 
person happy and they keep doing it because they do it well and it 
feels right, then they will be happy with their actions despite the 
disappointment at not being recognized.  Although I suspect that the 
more one enjoys something, the more one does it, and therefore there 
is more chance that someone will notice the successes and reward with 
a cookie.

Should people have to go through a level of bureaucracy adding more 
work to their job so they have a warrant which has no effect on 
whether or not they get a cookie? No.  The extra work will not bother 
those who enjoy the paperwork, but it's possible that there are some 
who simply enjoy doing the web pages and do not want the extra work.  
As I recall from the discussion earlier, whether someone's web page 
is warranted or not is their decision, thus solving the previous 
difficulty.

Just my two cents

Nancy Dalton
ska Earnwynn van Zwaluwenburg

  "If you're not enough without the medal, 
   you'll never be enough with it."  
                Cool Runnings
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