Por (Brian) on July 31, 2010 (Suggest removal)

To me it is obvious that Myrtice Landers was a disaster and that she had no pride. . . . . otherwise she would have bolted when she was demoted and saw her salary slashed by $20K.

However, I am disgusted at my alma mater for allowing her to get anywhere near our athletic department.  Where is the forethought?

The things DoJo says Landers did to keep him in school were fundamental job duties of Landers’ position, no?

Por (Dan Alatorre) on August 01, 2010 (Suggest removal)

There are employees out there who get bored with the day to day mundane parts of their job but who can rally the energy for occasional heroics. It is not the employees role to determine which parts of their job need to be done well and which don’t; all of the work needs to be done well. Usually the benefactors of the heroics will sing their praises but the fact is, the employee’s job is doing the mundane stuff, doing it right, and doing it all the time. It ain’t baseball where you can hit the ball 1 out of 3 times and be considered a wild success. It’s a job where you have do do this boring stuff right every day all the time or a lot of people are affected.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on August 01, 2010 (Suggest removal)

The periodic heroics don’t offset the routine errors or lack of effort, because the routine stuff is very important - that’s why they have a professional doing it. And the little people, shy students, non-aggressive customers that you slight along the way? Most don’t report you, they just go away. They get help elsewhere or they don’t get help. So unless you are willing to create a list of people you screwed over, don’t tell me about the few that you really went the extra mile for. Helping everybody was your job, not just helping a select few.