Re: Bart-Speak

[Pat Wallace <DENWALL@AOL.COM>]

From  Patricia D. Wallace,  Chair, Hawaii Working Group
(ALA Social Responsibility Round Table /Alternatives in Print Division)
Denwall@aol.com


Bart said re ban on faxes:
>"Please insure that all team members are informed of this reminder
>immediately and that this work rule is adhered to all times.

I  got  two comments about what  was assumed to be a "tongue-
in-cheek"  use of the term "teams" by Bart Kane while he was in
the process of oppressing his staff.  Unfortunately, he was dead
serious.  As soon as he went on his "re-engineering jag and
"decentralized" his libraries, he started referring to the staff in
each library as "Team This" and "Team That"......See Laurel
Indalecio's comments in my recent post:  "Librarians in Hawaii
Speak Out: #3".
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>From: "Frances D. Aley" <fdaley@saturn.caps.maine.edu>
>To: denwall@aol.com
>Subject: Hawaii
>Date:  Jan 16, 1997

>Excuse me Pat, but did that order about faxes, etc. _really_ say "team"
>members?  What "team" could Bart possibly be talking about--clearly not
>a team move IMHO, but what do I know, I'm _just_ a librarian--who votes?
>Doesn't some member of that legislature have the intestinal fortitude to
>confront this man posing as one of the library elite??????
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>From: Sue Kamm <suekamm@CLASS.ORG>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <publib@nysernet.org>
>Subject: Re: Hawaii: Choke (vs Gag) Order
>Date: Jan 19, 1997

>What I find amusing is Kane's reference to staff as 'team members.'
>I'd be interested in knowing what team he's taking as a role model.

>Sue Kamm
>email:  suekamm@class.org
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To: DENWALL@AOL.COM
From: jeffkirk@sni.net (JeffKirkpatrick)
Subject: Re: Re book aquisitions in Hawaii
Date: Jan 20, 1997
>Unfortunately, more and more of  the correspondence I
>receive from librarians in Hawaii will have to be forwarded as
>anonymous posts since they report to me that they feel their use
>of e-mail in the libraries is being monitored by administration in the
>wake of the ban on use of faxes, except for very limited purposes.

Pat:
I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me such monitoring falls under the
category of harassment, especially if a class of individuals is being
singled out.  But the problem here is much bigger, for such practice
indicates a betrayal of the trust contract required between employer and
employee.
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