[Sca-cooks] Offering myself! <g>

[Philip & Susan Troy]

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

>>Adamantius is great to work for. Doesn't matter what
>>happens (and a lot that wasn't his fault happened at
>>this event) he just stays calm and keeps on doing
>>things. Something needs done, if it's heavy or nasty,
>>he's first to dive in and get it started. You don't
>>know what you're doing, or how to do something, he
>>shows you. You're doing something, and you do know
>>what you're doing, he stays out of your way and lets
>>you do it.
>>
>>And it just doesn't matter what goes wrong- he never
>>loses his cool, just keeps on keeping on.
>>
>
> We've experienced this in my local group in the past at our big event...
> This past year, not only did he slice about 9 jars of kosher pickles for
> the dayboard but he swooped in to help out when breakfast was running late
> (due to a faulty alarm clock) and calmed down two frantic cooks and a
> grumpy autocrat. Adamantius, as the said autocrat continually has
> commented since then, is a god.

AWWWWWWWWWWW, GAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRSH!!!!


And my private office, my Sanctum Sanctorum, at 12th Night, says "Men"
on the door? Sheeesh!

Actually, I do think there's something of an art to crisis management.
It's kind of like being a dentist in an emergency (well, possibly this
is old-time imagery, but): you find the bad tooth and you pull it out.
Once you identify and attack it, things will eventually improve all
over. Sometimes there's nothing for it, and you just have to leap into a
convection oven. Sometimes it's a simple thing like noticing that
something you're heating on the stove can be heated in the oven, to free
up stove burners. Obviously, though, when you're all upset, it's easy to
forget this stuff, which is why remaining calm is a good thing.

Of course, sometimes a dazed stupor can be mistaken for calm, too. ;-)


Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com

"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98