Posted by gardenergirl on July 18, 2008, at 9:32:50
In reply to Re: Please Advise » Dinah, posted by Dena on July 18, 2008, at 1:37:51
> > (Dinah) I believe Lou's current outstanding notifications are in the hands of Dr. Bob. He hasn't appeared to have much time lately. But you'd have to take up the timeliness of his response directly with him.
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> (Dena) I have to wonder, if he doesn't have time to respond, and doesn't want to delegate any authority to the deputies, how is the community being served well?Hi Dena,
First, I want to commend you for your active and caring support for Lou and others. I've always been able to perceive the overall positive regard you hold for all in your posts, and that's a wonderful contribution here.I think you ask a good question, and I don't have any answers. Just to add my personal experience and perhaps a bit of perspective to this discussion... In my experience, I found it to be extraordinarily time-consuming to try to answer the various requests for clarifications, requests for determinations, et. al that Lou sends. When I was a deputy, I once spent a 4 hour chunk of time writing responses to outstanding requests from Lou, an amount of time which was far, far above the amount of time I would typically spend on a given day on Babble deputy duties in total, let alone on trying to meet the needs of one individual member. I did not consider this to be an effective or fair use of my time, personally or deputy-related. When those responses I sent were met with further questions, additional clarification requests, and so on, I felt I was caught up in a Sisyphean task. The deeper into it I delved, the more I could begin to feel upset, angry, frustrated, hurt, helpless, ineffective, out of balance, and/or dissonant, etc. At the point that replies in perhaps both directions contained content that was more personally directed, I felt I'd fallen so far off of my center that I would usually abandon the dialog despite knowing that the matter was not settled for Lou, and my efforts had seemed to me to amount essentially to nil or worse.
I am not speaking for Dr. Bob or any of the current or former deputies, only from my own experience. However, dollars to donuts, I believe the others are quite likely to find at least some familiarity with what I've described.
It's important for me to add that I've enjoyed the interactions and dialogs I've had with Lou outside the context of Babble administration, and at a time when I felt we were on better terms, I had thought we would one day meet in person. I've also found him to be remarkably generous in his offers of assistance to those in need. And the jokes about the robot in the pizza parlor just cracked me up. :)
For what it may or may not be worth,
gg
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