Dear Leader was out of town but he is back! And so much has happened in the past week. A new commodore was "elected"—apparently. Witnesses report that some people received several ballots, so was it really an election..? Please define "election". Whatever, nobody ever said the old adage "one person, one vote" applies in Hoofers. In fact, the exact same thing happened last year (and the year before that, and...)
Meanwhile, club leaders continue to remove posts from the official club "forum". What the heck kind of forum is that..? If you want to be shocked and amused at the same time, check out their rules. Read them twice if you don't throw up the first time. It's enough to discourage anyone with a brain from posting there. The rules against purposeless inflammatory posts and meaningless threads are especially pathetic. Who do you think decides whether something is meaningless or inflammatory..? Why, the people who are being criticized, of course!
Club leaders went so far as to ban some individuals from posting any more at all, simply because they criticized the current BOC. That is what's known as c-e-n-s-o-r-s-h-i-p. One post had pointed out that despite the club rule that a general membership meeting must be held at least quarterly, there hasn't been one in years. For that, the person got banned.
At least no more boats have sunk. although I haven't actually taken a count lately....
No more boats sinking? Where did you get that propaganda? Because Comrade Cherniak stated clearly at the Politburo meeting of Hoofer Sailing Club that several of the new Badger Techs are in fact sinking due to poor design and construction. Damn, you could buy 5 really nice keelboats that work for what the Central Committee wasted on those Techs.
ReplyDeleteWhere can one get more info on the new Tech design? Why is it worse than the old techs? They were pretty indestructible tough.
ReplyDeleteAnd, what does Jim Rogers customer alliance mean? It seems that everyone is a customer who pays to join hoofers.
1. You can't get more information on the new Tech design because there isn't a new Tech design. The club sent JibeTech the molds and asked for boats.
ReplyDelete2. Some of the old boats weighed twice as much as they did when new because of all the fiberglass patches stuck on over the years. How's that for indestructible tough?
Frank, your first question would be usefully posed to the incoming BOC. The current board is surprisingly unwilling to share this sort of information, so club members are often left in the dark about what is going on in their club.
ReplyDeleteAs for the customer thing, typically customers do not vote on the leadership of the stores they shop at. Hoofers is a club and members are, well, members.