dmprantz
is Blowin Smoke!
I know I'm sticking my hand in the snake pit with this, but it has become a wtf moment for me. In a different thread some one referenced KCBS BOD QuickNotes where an organizer's punishment for some irregularity was to make an extra $400 payout and then all was well. For some reason I decided to follow the link and read the rest of the quick notes, and something in them has me shocked, but I guess it shouldn't.
Most here know that KCBS banned me from competing for three years because of something that some one on my team did. I was the head cook and got caught in a bad situation beyond my control, but I wanted to make sure that's out there. The background to this is that two months prior, a KCBS rep cheated by falsifying score cards. The result was that the reps involved were fired and told that they could reapply in one year.
After I was punished I brought up how strange it was that I was banned for three years because of an apron that I didn't wear, and a rep who cheated was banned for only one. Multiple people on the BOD told me that this happened because reps could only be retrained or fired, and that the rules allowed them to reapply, but that acceptance was not guarenteed.
Well guess what: Less than a year since the termination, one of the reps involved with the falsifying of scores applied to be reinstated as a Rep in Training, and the board approved! It wasn't unanimous, (Farrin, Compton, and Harwell voted no), but really? After all the statements that applying didn't mean acceptance, a rep involved with falsifying scores gets let in less than a year later, and a head cook who had a team member wear an apron gets three years plus probation?
I hope every one who stood behind the board and felt that an apron hurt the product that the KCBS offerred is glad to know that according to the board, cheating and ethics hurt the product less. Enjoy your pure and clean sport.
dmp
Most here know that KCBS banned me from competing for three years because of something that some one on my team did. I was the head cook and got caught in a bad situation beyond my control, but I wanted to make sure that's out there. The background to this is that two months prior, a KCBS rep cheated by falsifying score cards. The result was that the reps involved were fired and told that they could reapply in one year.
After I was punished I brought up how strange it was that I was banned for three years because of an apron that I didn't wear, and a rep who cheated was banned for only one. Multiple people on the BOD told me that this happened because reps could only be retrained or fired, and that the rules allowed them to reapply, but that acceptance was not guarenteed.
Well guess what: Less than a year since the termination, one of the reps involved with the falsifying of scores applied to be reinstated as a Rep in Training, and the board approved! It wasn't unanimous, (Farrin, Compton, and Harwell voted no), but really? After all the statements that applying didn't mean acceptance, a rep involved with falsifying scores gets let in less than a year later, and a head cook who had a team member wear an apron gets three years plus probation?
I hope every one who stood behind the board and felt that an apron hurt the product that the KCBS offerred is glad to know that according to the board, cheating and ethics hurt the product less. Enjoy your pure and clean sport.
dmp
