Re: Need candid reviews!

Beautiful post, Paul. Hope it helps to heal the situation...

Lauren


----- Original Message -----
From: "Villano, Paul" <VillanoP(at)usachcs.army.mil>
To: <welch(at)units.ohio-state.edu>
Cc: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:00 AM
Subject: RE: Need candid reviews!


> Personal opinion...
>
> I have experience in a situation very much like this.  I feel your pain
and
> hope my bruises will spare you more.  Grin.
>
> Though you may have been justified in improving the site, though it may
look
> better, you were still wrong if (as your note implies) you made these
> changes without consulting the other guy at all.  There was obviously hurt
> feelings and bad blood already.  By making unilateral changes (whether
your
> supervisor approved them or not) you alienated this guy (and his
supporters)
> all the more.  And I've learned the hard way that in these political
> situations, even the worst people have other powerful people in their
corner
> for some reason we can never fathom.
>
> There was no reason to torque this guy's ego worse than it already was.
If
> I were you, I'd do what I could to make amends.  Meet with your
supervisor,
> this guy and his first-line supervisor.  Apologize for making changes
> unilaterally.  Explain that, from now on, you will consult them as team
> members.  But, if it is true (as it sounds from your note) that you
outrank
> this guy (sorry for the Army term), make it clear that your final vote is
> what counts.  You will consult but may override.
>
> Bottom line is that when all is said and done, what matters in life is
> relationships.  "Love your enemies.  Bless those that curse you.  Do good
to
> those that persecute you."  Healing a human relationship is more important
> than all the web pages in the world.  So, in as much as is in your power,
> seek to make peace with these people.  Work as a team to get the job done
to
> everyone's compromised satisfaction, making clear that if it's necessary
you
> will take the lead if necessary but not at the expense of their pride and
> not without letting them know they've been heard.
>
> PAUL
> - Made to magnify my Maker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: welch(at)units.ohio-state.edu [mailto:welch(at)units.ohio-state.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:54 AM
> To: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Need candid reviews!
>
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> Hello, all --
>
> I've gotten involved in a largely political mess, and I need help.
>
> Briefly: I'm the webmaster for the telecommunications department at a
large
> university. I work in the MIS group. Marketing wanted the webmaster to be
a
> part of marketing, and one of the people over there applied for my job and
> didn't get it.
>
> In an effort to make everyone happy, the guy in marketing who wanted my
job
> was given the responsibility to do a portion of the main site devoted to
> our campus movie channel. He is supposed to work on it under my
> supervision. He has not done anything I've asked him to, and (in my
> opinion) he has done a very sloppy job. Finally, with my supervisor's
> approval, I took it upon myself to make the changes I thought this portion
> of the site needed. I transferred the revamped pages yesterday, and today
> the s**t hit the fan.
>
> I need opinions on your take on the two versions of the site. Please take
> note of the coding, etc. My pages do not have a doctype declaration on
them
> yet, but that is because I'm trying to figure out how to translate all the
> pages on all my sites into XHTML, and I haven't finished yet.
>
> FWIW, I ran one of my pages through the W3C validator, and got one
error --
> the missing doctype. I ran the same page as done by marketing through the
> validator, and got twelve pages of errors.
>
> Here are the URLs. I have accidentally deleted some of his image files,
but
> I think you'll get the idea. (There was no background on his site, in case
> you wonder if that was a deleted image.)
>
> The old pages, as done by marketing:
>
>       http://www.units.ohio-state.edu/old_moviechannel/
>
> The new pages, as I have redone them:
>
>       http://www.units.ohio-state.edu/moviechannel/
>
> Thanks enormously, in advance.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Diane Welch, Webmaster
> UNITS, The Ohio State University
> (614) 688-8569
> http://www.units.ohio-state.edu
> webmaster(at)units.ohio-state.edu

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