Re: Rewarding Workers at Gatherings

starwatcher (pcfx@cyberramp.net)
Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:39:45 -0600

You're in a kitchen. You're standing in a long line. One of the
> kitchen says, "We need volunteers to take these five-gallon buckets down
> to the (distant) river, bring them back up, to be put on the fire for
> the kitchen. When the kitchen focalizer has finished working you, then
> my point is, that focalizer should be able to put you RIGHT IN FRONT OF
> THE LINE, instead of you, exhausted perhaps, getting back at the new end
> of the line.
> >> Do I hear a "HO!" on this?
>
> >> screw the line, you get invited behind the bliss rail
>
> >>Seems right the f.. I mean heck on to me, but I was in a similar
> situation more than once in Oregon, with my gimpy sweaty ass propped up
> by my cane besides, and was not given either courtesy. Sometimes folks
> are just folks I guess, (and goodness knows- folks are nutz!). That's
> why I always bring food to feed me when I can't wait for good sense, let
> alone good manners to prevail.
>
> To CW and starwatcher I say:
>
> HO, I heard that, right on, you ain't said shit, you'd better believe
> it, ain't that the truth, and hell yeah. (I also agree.)
>
> This is a basic way of encouraging people to work by rewarding it. This
> is why the Capitalists won the Cold War against the Communists. To each
> according to his needs often does not bring from each according to his
> ability. The Rainbow Family lets in everybody with a bellybutton the
> first time, but if you ever REALLY want to get into the Family by your
> third or fourth Gathering, you're gonna have to find something you have
> that others want and give it to them with enthusiasm. They're real
> hardasses about letting you into the in crowd.

SW: as John & Paul said:
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make..."
>
> To bb I say:
>
> You've got to find kitchens with good (I'm whispering 'cuz I'm not
> suppos'to say) leaders, whom you form a personal relationship with, and
> who tell the others who you are when it's time for your reward. I don't
> waste my time doing stuff for anarchic kitchens with high turnover where
> nobody really knows what's going on. (Did you catch my second Magic Hat
> post last week? - I talked more about this.)
>

SW: How to Tell a a Kitchen from a Mess:101

you go - I wanna hear more -

marc

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