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Old Wed Aug 23, 2006, 02:15pm
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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I'll answer your question from the assignor's point of view.

FIRST, try number 3 - if they are receptive, great, it ends there unless you work with them again and again and they still aren't getting it - THEN I want to hear about it.

NEVER try number 2 - It's hard enough to schedule without worrying about accomodating the "I won't work with X" requests. Likely, right or wrong, it will end up being YOU pushed out of assignments instead of the other way around ... unless of course I get 5 guys telling me they won't work with so-and-so.

And YES, please use number 1. Even if it's small ("Hey, this guy is on top of his zone and missing the bottoms" or "This guy doesn't get down the 1BL at all, and didn't listen to me when I mentioned it") or large ("This guy called IFF 3 times with 2 outs, and ejected a guy for no reason (or the reverse!)") - I want to know. How can my crews improve if no one is willing to give or accept input.
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