ANST - Steppes 12th Night

[Mike C. Baker]

---Tim McDaniel <tmcd at crl.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Decker, Terry
> <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US> wrote:
> > This is a quid pro quo.  Frankly, the head server and the
> > autocrat should be beating the bushes to find servers.
> They tried.  There were several announcements during the
> day.

And multiple pleas in advance of the event. Some of us who do care
were mightily tempted to over-commit our talents and energies -- and
some did...
 
> > The fact that most of your volunteers came from outside
> > the Barony suggests that the press gang wasn't very
> > efficient or that your group is having a high incidence of
> > burnout.
> Or they figured "it's just the usual call for servers
> ... *yawn*  Not today".  Unfortunately, I was in that group,
> and I should have volunteered.

I would have served, except:
- had already committed to help with hall cleanup
- was still conducting "real" business well into feast
- was still delivering gifts and trying to get in at least some
visiting (*cautiously* ask Burke about the magnifier, or Esko about
the pretzel barrel...)
- was approaching "pooped" well before end of feast

There are limits to human endurance, and to the effectiveness of
recruitment efforts. Still, we who dwell in Steppes are *trying* to
enlist more people to assist with conducting events all the time.

I've seen the effects elsewhere as well: it seems that the larger a
group becomes the less likely it may be for any given individual to
see that their personal efforts are needed to pull off a quality
event (and they begin to concentrate instead upon their smaller
sub-group within the larger arena).

Be assured that the Steppes and the more active of those who seem to
do the bulk of the work for events are trying to bring up a new
generation of "noble servants". There are a range of folk who are
approaching or who have already "burned out" that may also be
available to be recruited on a limited basis as well...

It ain't easy. Then, we were never assured that it would be easy to
be part of a group that values individual honor, valor OFF the
field, and other ancient codes of conduct.

===
Adieu -- Amra / Pax ... Kihe / TTFN -- Mike
(al-Sayyid) Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra  /
Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard) / 
Mike C. Baker: My opinions are my own -- no one else would want them!
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