[Sca-cooks] Feast stewart at the crossroads

[ED Reese]

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I have to agree. Mistress Selene agreed to cook upon a stipulated price and
theme, and has been working on it steadily for some time. The "change" was
rude, and not the most competent autocratting, either.

Esther

At 10:58 AM 5/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:

> >  I would still contend that you committed to do the feast and should do
> > it, after an appropriately long conversation with the autocrat about why
> >they made the changes and if they are willing to revisit them.  They
> >might be, or they might have really good reasons for their changes.  But
> >in my mind you committed to doing the feast, the number of people,
> >dollars and theme are all fluid, at least until things are published.
>
>I think that if someone agrees to do such a thing, where the numbers and
>theme are fluid until the autocrat publishes them, they should live up to
>that. But I think to make such a committment is... well, I think it would
>be quicker and easier just to let someone hit you on the head repeatedly
>with a wooden mallet.
>
>I believe that the autocrat should have a certain amount of say at the
>beginning of the process, and be allowed to re-negotiate with the feast
>cook what the conditions are.
>
>But having agreed on the conditions, neither the cook NOR the autocrat is
>free to dictate changes without discussion.
>
>
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