When your hobby is in an organization where the political structure is very top down, like the military is, and by design, the folks at the top can do things very right, and very wrong. In the past, I've seen some very good things happen, but this last weekend was one of those times when it left...well...a lot to be desired.
I guess a good idea is to fully understand the consequences of your scheduling choices when lots of people are depending on you. The ones at the top didn't do that, and so our performance got nuked. Well, okay, shut down instantly. (But that is the same as nuked, isn't it!?)
When things happen in sequence, and they all must be done by a certain time, the delay of an earlier one affects the later one. They delayed their start by two hours, to take advantage of the view of the stars in the mountains. They ran three hours, instead of two. So our originally scheduled three hour performance stopped 45 minutes into it. And I'm the one running the performance.
With about fifteen (maybe even twenty) drummers, even more dancers, and perhaps hundreds of folks in attendance, you can imagine that the total frustration has been insanely high. As the music leader, it's my responsibility to coordinate things. Here it is Wednesday, and I've been dealing with my personal frustration and the feedback from other folks since Saturday. It took until yesterday to totally come to grips with it.
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About Me
- Martin C. Nagel
- Martin works as an Application Developer and Technical Lead at a large manufacturing company in the Phoenix valley. In that role, he writes and maintains a quality application that checks the quality of the materials used in the manufacturing process. He has a variety of programming skills in various web, batch processing, and database languages. He has been developing computer applications professionally at five companies since graduating with his Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems from DeVry in 1985. He has additional professional interests. He participates in a variety of safety teams as an office ergonomics assessor, emergency response team leader, and safety communications. He also teaches classes about agile thinking and database unit testing. Outside of work, he occasionally teaches and performs as a middle eastern drummer, lift weights, and spends time with his wife and two daughters. He's an avid supporter of the U.S. Bill of Rights 2nd Amendment, a National Rifle Association (NRA) life member, certified NRA instructor for five NRA classes, shooting range life member, Arizona Citizens Defense League (AzCDL) member and volunteer, and runs 2nd Amendment Shop, L.L.C.
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