<div> Mark, your seconds thoughts are right on. Sometimes you have to trust the higher ups. In this case they may be protecting Steve. Nobody that's a decent boss enjoys having to let someone go. I've been a boss for over 20 years and I hate it.</div> <div> At least Tony has offered an explaination via a conversation. I think that its fair on his part. Either way it's too bad for both parties. Mike <BR><BR><B><I>Mark Atwood <atwoodm@paragon-inc.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">If you read the entire thread, somewhere on Page 2 Steve posts his side of the story, so at least we have a description of events (albeit one sided) from a source that was there.<BR><BR>We all have some shortcomings, and it’s true we can’t seem to get AMA’s side of the story which is
always bothersome. But it’s hard to believe that we would want someone as active, committed and engaged as Steve was off the payroll. Just my opinion. If the AMA feels justified, I think they have an obligation to make a more public statement regarding the matter.<BR><BR>It would put a lot of rumor to rest. <BR><BR>Second thoughts... I have had to fire people in the past and have refrained from “explanations” to the rest of the surprised staff in an effort to minimize the damage to the reputation of the person being fired, ie airing the dirty laundry, while it would resolve the uprising, would only serve to damage the person more. Not saying in ANY way that this would be the case...just that situations do exist where not commenting is the better part of valor.<BR><BR>I get away with that because my employees trust me (evil laugh)... What we are lacking here is a management team that we trust has done the right thing.
Unfortunately for AMA, one of the few people who’s answers I trusted (whether or not I liked the answers) was Steve.<BR><BR>-M<BR><BR><BR>On 8/20/07 7:30 PM, "Ron Van Putte" <vanputte@cox.net> wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR>On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:07 PM, JShulman wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://runryder.com/helicopter/t366695p1/">http://runryder.com/helicopter/t366695p1/</A><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR> <BR> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial>I never would of guessed this is how Steve would have "left" the AMA.<BR></FONT></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR>Hmmmmm. I heard a
different story. I won't mention the source, but Steve Kaluf was fired for doing something that the Executive Director, Jim Cherry, told him not to do and the assertion that, "all of the district VP's wanted Steve back immediately" isn't true. I had my runins with Steve as Nats event director and as the NSRCA VP coordinating the Nats with AMA on behalf of NSRCA and, while I liked him personally, I wasn't too thrilled with how he did his job.<BR><BR>Ron Van Putte<BR><BR><BR> <HR align=center width="95%" SIZE=3> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2><FONT face="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=2><FONT face="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
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