Fred and others, I agree with the things said in your post but just be sure that "critical faculty" understands *why* they're not happy. That it's *not* just because you're letting things slide for some other reason than having enough time/money to do a good job. In our new building, I'm going to have the same kind of battle. If we get all the new instruments we're trying to, I will also have about 150 instruments to take care of! So I think I'm going to go back and study all the things Barbara Richmond did to get her university at the time to go to a full-time position. Maybe I can use some of the same ideas to get a second position established. At least they've agreed to let me bring in another tuner to help with the tunings on a contract basis. Good luck in your battle. Avery Fred Sturm wrote: > Originally I tried to "patch holes" to the extent that the faculty >would not notice how bad things were getting. More recently I have decided >that that was a bad policy, and so I have begun to let things slide >noticeably - not do the half hour special regulate/lube/voice the high spots >for the critical faculty. It's the critical faculty who need to be lobbying >for more money/time for the technician. If they are happy, all the >technician's bellyaching does is give him/her a reputation as a complainer. _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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