SC - Horror Story (Warning, angry cook venting)

[geneviamoas@juno.com]

Tryca, I like your style. Point me where you want me to go and let me
choose how best to get there within the given parameters. I think you
would be a delight to work with.
Genevia

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>    While I have not had similar experiences as cook or kitchen help,
>last year I was an autocrat, and I hope that I turned out to be one of
>the few intelligent ones.  I outlined my ideas in an initial meeting
>with the feastocrat, and then handed over the whole job to her.  I
>only asked for information when I was creating fliers and the
>submission for the Kingdom newsletter.
>    Let us not be too hard on our erstwhile autocrats.  It is not an
>easy job, and there are a myriad of unrelated problems that pop up
>suddenly. But I found my best choice as autocrat was to choose people
>to help me that I trusted, and then let them make the decisions that
>they were in charge of.  If I began to worry about budget, or
>publicity, or site problems, then would be the time for a meeting. 
>But not until.
>    From what I have seen in this discussion, the problem has been
>when the autocrat wanted to micro-manage everything.  This simply is
>not necessary, and the whole thing runs much smoother if the autocrat
>allows the individuals assigned responsibilities to take care of it
>themselves.  She (and I use that in the generic sense, guys) should
>just lean back and allow the event to run itself.
>
>Tyrca
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