[6274] in APO Printshop
idea to help journeymen with training
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kristin Kuhn)
Sun Jan 30 15:03:00 2011
From: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:02:37 -0500
To: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>, Melissa Piper Hunt <wings@mit.edu>
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Maybe this is a dumb idea - feel free to shoot it down kindly if it is. I
know there are many aspects of the Press Shop of which I am unaware.
But an email of Piper's sparked an idea in my head, that could maybe help
with the strain that the 2 active & local journeymen are experiencing with
training new press ops.
What if someone *less* than a journeyman could *train* a press-op, but only
a journeyman could qualify them?
This person "less" than a journeyman would be somewhere between a newly
qualified press op and a journeyman. Maybe a press op who has done a minimum
number of jobs, or has sufficiently proven themselves in some other way. An
oral exam going over the important things with a journeyman? A written test?
It could be whatever the journeymen felt comfortable with.
This way, the number of people who could help out with the press would
increase. The Reg Day job could be a little party - not the lonely 6-hour
exhaustion-fest it is now. Also, more people would get to interact with the
press, which would hopefully increase chapter interest. Right now only 3
actives are press ops, and only two of those have done a job in the past
year. And, we are both graduating this semester. Most of the time, people
barely even remember about the press... I feel like if more people were
involved with it, it would come up more often, and more people would want to
be trained!
Ok, so all these good things would happen. But! The journeymen would still
have ultimate control over who could do independent jobs. These
non-qualified press ops could only help out with jobs - someone qualified
would have to be there as well. Thus, I don't think safety would be
compromised. Nor would the power of the journeymen be decreased.
I am interested to hear the opinions of those on this list. I do not wish to
"oust" the journeymen in any way - I think that having such a firm hierarchy
is what keeps the quality and safety of the press shop high. But I also
think that the press shop has been dying for many years, and I kinda want to
do something about that! I am also open to any other ideas that wiser folks
may have.
thanks for reading,
Kristin
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Maybe this is a dumb idea - feel free to shoot it down kindly if it is. I k=
now there are many aspects of the Press Shop of which I am unaware.<br><br>=
But an email of Piper's sparked an idea in my head, that could maybe he=
lp with the strain that the 2 active & local journeymen are experiencin=
g with training new press ops.<br>
<br>What if someone *less* than a journeyman could *train* a press-op, but =
only a journeyman could qualify them?<br>This person "less" than =
a journeyman would be somewhere between a newly qualified press op and a jo=
urneyman. Maybe a press op who has done a minimum number of jobs, or has su=
fficiently proven themselves in some other way. An oral exam going over the=
important things with a journeyman? A written test? It could be whatever t=
he journeymen felt comfortable with.<br>
<br>This way, the number of people who could help out with the press would =
increase. The Reg Day job could be a little party - not the lonely 6-hour e=
xhaustion-fest it is now. Also, more people would get to interact with the =
press, which would hopefully increase chapter interest. Right now only 3 ac=
tives are press ops, and only two of those have done a job in the past year=
. And, we are both graduating this semester. Most of the time, people barel=
y even remember about the press... I feel like if more people were involved=
with it, it would come up more often, and more people would want to be tra=
ined!<br>
<br>Ok, so all these good things would happen. But! The journeymen would st=
ill have ultimate control over who could do independent jobs. These non-qua=
lified press ops could only help out with jobs - someone qualified would ha=
ve to be there as well. Thus, I don't think safety would be compromised=
. Nor would the power of the journeymen be decreased.<br>
<br>I am interested to hear the opinions of those on this list. I do not wi=
sh to "oust" the journeymen in any way - I think that having such=
a firm hierarchy is what keeps the quality and safety of the press shop hi=
gh. But I also think that the press shop has been dying for many years, and=
I kinda want to do something about that! I am also open to any other ideas=
that wiser folks may have.<br>
<br><br>thanks for reading,<br>Kristin<br><br>
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