| parrthenon@cs.com 2006-02-26, 7:33 pm |
| DEAFENING SILENCE
<If the writing is on a web site, it's website
content. Yawn.> -- Paul Rubin
Paul Rubin is yawning.
Yawn.
I see good reason to learn the precise
employment status of Jennifer Shahade: what is her
place in the hierarchy?
There is indeed no policy to advertise all jobs
at the Federation, and no one I've read has said that
such is the case. However, there is an understanding
and a practice that major jobs are advertised to the
general chess community so as to enlarge the pool of
applicants and -- heh, heh, heh -- to complicate the
practice of friends rewarding friends.
How, for example, does her salary compare with
that of the Chess Life editor? Surely that is a relevant
question when considering whether a plum in chess
terms was dishonestly given to a friend rather than
putting the job up for public competition.
The silence is once again deafening, just as it
was over the ChessCafe deal.
NO NONE HAS EXPLAINED WHY THIS JOB COULD NOT
HAVE BEEN ADVERTISED PUBLICLY. The excuse-makers have
merely argued that the Executive Board could do what
it did legally.
Let us keep in mind, once again, what the
ChessCafe deal involved:
1. Hanon Russell submitted a very high bid that
destroyed the competition.
2. After winning the book and equipment
concession, Mr. Russell failed to fulfill the terms of
the bid.
3. The terms are then changed in Mr. Russell's
favor without any open bidding.
4. Mr. Russell gets, in effect, permanent
possession of the book and equipment business without
having to face open competition after submitting an
initial bid that he did not come close to fulfilling.
Gentlemen: dip my sugarcane into the molasses.
It don't get no sweeter than that!
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