<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div> The other factors that may lean toward an outside hire:<br />1. The executive authority may wish to change the culture/institutional climate.<br />2. The inside candidate may not have more knowledge about the position than an outside hire. This is particularly true in large, specialized, bureaucratic organizations. The bigger the jump in the hierarchy, the more there is to learn. You leave your silo behind to sit atop another.</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
<div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif:font-size:10pt">
<br />
<div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">
<font size="2" face="Tahoma">
<hr size="1">
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span>
</b>
Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com>; <br>
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold:">To:</span>
</b>
Ron Force <rforce2003@yahoo.com>; <br>
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold:">Cc:</span>
</b>
Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>; <br>
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold:">Subject:</span>
</b>
Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton <br>
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span>
</b>
Fri, Apr 1, 2011 8:09:05 PM <br>
</font>
<br>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">In my opinion, there are two primary reasons why businesses hire internally:<BR><BR>1) Employee's familiarization with corporate infrastructure/culture.<BR><BR>2) Management's familiarization with employee's productivity.<BR><BR>Such an employee can move internally from one job to the next absent any<BR>necessity of a "learning curve".<BR><BR>I feel safe in assuming that corporations prefer the necessity of a<BR>learning curve to be at the lowest level possible.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>On Fri, April 1, 2011 12:52 pm, Ron Force wrote:<BR>> ? Inside hires don't really save money. The person moving up gets the<BR>> salary of<BR>> the new position, and then their department has to hire a replacement.<BR>><BR>> Ron Force<BR>> Moscow Idaho USA<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> ________________________________<BR>> From:
Donovan Arnold <<a ymailto="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" href="javascript:return">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>><BR>> To: Saundra Lund <<a ymailto="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" href="javascript:return">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>>; <a ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" href="javascript:return">vision2020@moscow.com</a>; lfalen<BR>> <<a ymailto="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" href="javascript:return">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>><BR>> Sent: Fri, April 1, 2011 12:09:47 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and<BR>> AlliedBarton<BR>><BR>><BR>> Roger,<BR>><BR>> If there is a way to waste more money, UI will find it even if they have<BR>> to hire<BR>> an administrator to contract a firm to outsource a private company to<BR>> select<BR>> a board to appoint an exploratory committee to discover it.<BR>><BR>><BR>> Donovan
Arnold<BR>><BR>> --- On Fri, 4/1/11, lfalen <<a ymailto="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" href="javascript:return">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>> wrote:<BR>><BR>><BR>>>From: lfalen <<a ymailto="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" href="javascript:return">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>><BR>>>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and<BR>>>AlliedBarton<BR>>>To: "Saundra Lund" <<a ymailto="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" href="javascript:return">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>>, <a ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" href="javascript:return">vision2020@moscow.com</a><BR>>>Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:24 AM<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>The UI is real good at wasting money. They used hired a new Dean of the<BR>>> Graduate<BR>>>School from outside. the interim Dean was just fine.<BR>>>Roger<BR>>>-----Original message-----<BR>>>From: "Saundra Lund" <a
ymailto="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" href="javascript:return">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a><BR>>>Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:50:52 -0700<BR>>>To: <a ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" href="javascript:return">vision2020@moscow.com</a><BR>>>Subject: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI,and<BR>>> AlliedBarton<BR>>><BR>>>> Perhaps someone at the UI should PLEASE let whoever is hiring those<BR>>>> fine<BR>>>> hard-working AlliedBarton security professionals (!) know that Moscow<BR>>>> actually has an ordinance prohibiting plumber's butt. Ordinance<BR>>>> 2002-13.<BR>>>><BR>>>> In all fairness, I didn't actually see the dude's "cleft of the<BR>>>> buttocks" on<BR>>>> the weekend, for which I'll be eternally grateful. But, it was<BR>>>> horrifyingly<BR>>>> close & *very*
unprofessional. And it ***definitely*** wasn't a<BR>>>> positive<BR>>>> reflection on the UI.<BR>>>><BR>>>> OTOH, I've seen MPD officers on campus many times over the years, and<BR>>>> they<BR>>>> always looked professional & behaved professionally as well, which<BR>>>> apparently isn't always the case with the AB employees.<BR>>>><BR>>>> I've heard through the grapevine that the brilliant <sarcasm> decision<BR>>>> to<BR>>>> hire AB to save money is actually costing more than anticipated. I<BR>>>> can't<BR>>>> say as I'm surprised because that often seems to be the case at the UI:<BR>>>> things that are supposed to save money wind up costing more, especially<BR>>>> when<BR>>>> it comes to contracts with the private sector. In the past, I found it<BR>>>> very<BR>>>>
easy to deal with the UI with respect to public records requests, but<BR>>>> that's<BR>>>> unfortunately not been the case since Kent Nelson was hired as General<BR>>>> Counsel. Other than finding creative ways to thwart public records<BR>>>> requests, I'm not exactly sure what it is he does since the UI<BR>>>> contracts out<BR>>>> so much of its legal work, but making access to public records<BR>>>> difficult if<BR>>>> not impossible certainly has the bonus of making sure we-the-taxpayers<BR>>>> remain ignorant about whether all these cost-savings measures are<BR>>>> actually<BR>>>> saving money or losing it.<BR>>>><BR>>>> So much for the UI's pledge for transparency & accountability following<BR>>>> the<BR>>>> deplorable history of serious financial mismanagement. Seriously,<BR>>>>
though,<BR>>>> Pollyanna me thought that "pledge" was going to last longer than a New<BR>>>> York<BR>>>> minute.<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>> Saundra Lund<BR>>>> Moscow, ID<BR>>>><BR>>>> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to<BR>>>> do<BR>>>> nothing.<BR>>>> ~ Edmund Burke<BR>>>><BR>>>> ***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2011 through life<BR>>>> plus<BR>>>> 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce<BR>>>> outside<BR>>>> the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the<BR>>>> author.*****<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>> =======================================================<BR>>>> List services made available by First Step
Internet,<BR>>>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>>>> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank >http://www.fsr.net/</a><BR>>>> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" href="javascript:return">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><BR>>>> =======================================================<BR>>>><BR>>><BR>>>=======================================================<BR>>>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>>>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>>> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target=_blank >http://www.fsr.net</a><BR>>> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"
href="javascript:return">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><BR>>>=======================================================<BR>><BR>><BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target=_blank >http://www.fsr.net</a><BR>> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" href="javascript:return">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><BR>> =======================================================<BR><BR><BR>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<BR>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR><BR><BR></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>