Today's Daily Cardinal had a front page story on mismanagement and abuse at the Wisconsin Union. Thirty three employees, most of them students, signed a letter to the Dean of Students complaining about mismanagement and abuse in their Wis. Union jobs--by their supervisor. They named some guy (facilities manager?) but of course it's really a trickle down effect from Union Director Mark Guthier who oversees all bad things at the Union.
This may not seem like sailing news, but it is if any Hoofer employees signed onto that letter. Guthier had some idiotic things to say in defending Union management, e.g. "That's only 5% of our 700 employees..." Five percent?! That seems like a lot to me, especially considering that most people won't complain even if they are being mistreated. So in reality, the percentage is probably much higher.
Another article revealed widespread "theft" by Stiftskeller employees. Apparently whenever someone pays for a pitcher with exact change, they take it as a tip and ring up "NO SALE". Obviously, the Union should lower its beer prices so less cash gets stolen! :P
In any case, it's clear that corruption permeates the Wisconsin Union from top to bottom.... and there's your connection to Hoofers, by the way.
Friday, February 29, 2008
That was waay too hard
Beavis would say, "Heh-heh, he said hard." That header was a real pain in the butt.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
What exactly is a club "leader"?
The online dictionary defines lead·er as
1. One that leads or guides.
2. One who is in charge or in command of others.
It's clear that Hoofer "leaders" have taken no. 2 to heart. Instead of leading and guiding, they take control--of equipment and other resources. This means ratings are problematic. If they rate you on a particular boat, then they've lost control over you. As Henry Kissinger said, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
Perhaps this is why you so often see club "leaders" inappropriately ripping their clothes off and jumping in while general club members stare in disbelief. Of course, most club members aren't slurping the aphrodisiac. Quite the contrary, they're sucking up to the "leaders" with the hope of getting rated on a particular boat, or hoping for some other favor. What Kissinger didn't mention is that power, by definition, relies on keeping power away from others.
1. One that leads or guides.
2. One who is in charge or in command of others.
It's clear that Hoofer "leaders" have taken no. 2 to heart. Instead of leading and guiding, they take control--of equipment and other resources. This means ratings are problematic. If they rate you on a particular boat, then they've lost control over you. As Henry Kissinger said, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
Perhaps this is why you so often see club "leaders" inappropriately ripping their clothes off and jumping in while general club members stare in disbelief. Of course, most club members aren't slurping the aphrodisiac. Quite the contrary, they're sucking up to the "leaders" with the hope of getting rated on a particular boat, or hoping for some other favor. What Kissinger didn't mention is that power, by definition, relies on keeping power away from others.
Hoofer Sailing Club--Wikipedia
In current news, there's a raging edit war over the Hoofer Sailing Club article in Wikipedia. Some people (BOC?) evidently don't like to see any criticisms and have repeatedly vandalised the article. One person ("Fleetcaptain") has made more than one hundred separate edits to the page over the past week! He removed well supported criticisms, messed up the article with more than 40 separate subheadings to make it unreadable, and added tons of trivia. Not really appropriate for an "encyclopaedic" article, unless you're hammered or high on crack.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoofer_Sailing_Club and click on history. More coming soon....
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoofer_Sailing_Club and click on history. More coming soon....
Shenanigans
Okay, the site is finally up! Here you'll find news and information on all sorts of things the sailing club doesn't post (or allow) on its own website. Hopefully this can also serve as the club's new FORUM now that the hoofersailing.org Forum has been censored by club leaders. This should also free up the keelboat list from non-keelboat related items.
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