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Re: Rant



So far as I know, isn't a violation of federal statute to open someone
else's mail?
I would think that local policy, written or otherwise, cannot override
federal law.

----- Original Message -----
From: Tina Bernath <tbernath@TSUD.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Rant


> Seems to me if you opened mail addressed to YOU, you were in the right.
> And, the office manager was in wrong because she was opening mail
addressed
> to a specific person (you).  Now, as she is the former MD's sister, that
> person may have given her (unofficial) permission to open mail addressed
to
> the MD.  However, since that person is no longer in that position, she
> should have at least had the courtesy to ask if mail procedures under the
> previous MD would continue to be followed or would their be changes, and
> submitted gracefully to the changes.
>
> Sound like large dose of spite on her part.
>
> Tina Bernath
> Archive Assistant
> Library
> TSU Dothan
> Dothan, Alabama 36304
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Berry" <tberry@HCEA.NET>
> To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:08 PM
> Subject: Rant
>
>
> > Many of you have read my accounts of the bizarre problems I had with our
> > former managing director. Now that he's stepped down, a whole new
problem
> > has reared itself. I know that you don't care to hear about office
> politics,
> > but I need to blow off steam. Plus, the punch line might be worth the
> tedium
> > for those familiar with my saga.
> >
> > Ever since I've been here, I've generally been asked, expected or told
to
> do
> > two things above and beyond the realm of the Archives. One was doing
much
> of
> > the managing director's work for him, especially including taking an
> active
> > role in the general business of the Association. Now that he's stepped
> down,
> > this has continued to a lesser extent under direction of the President,
> who
> > has assumed much of his responsibility. The other was to help our
> bookkeeper
> > with various problems that she can't handle herself, especially at this
> time
> > of the year when she's inundated with orders for our calendars. I've
also
> > had the freedom to offer suggestions if I felt they might be beneficial
to
> > our Association.
> >
> > A problem came up over the weekend about cash received in the mail. She
> got
> > upset with me about it, saying that by opening mail that was addressed
to
> me
> > I had violated policy that says she open all mail (although I had never
> > heard of such a policy). When I tried to offer some constructive (to me,
> > anyway) ideas about how we could avoid the problem in the future she
blew
> > her stack and said that I was the one making a big problem out of mail
> > handling. I came back from lunch to find an incendiary memo from her on
my
> > desk, saying that she is the Office Manager, that she's getting fed up
> with
> > me overstepping my bounds in offering suggestions to her, that I'm only
> the
> > archivist and not the managing director, and that I'm essentially to
shut
> up
> > and keep my nose out of anything not concerning the Archives.
> >
> > Frankly, I haven't encountered such immaturity in anyone older than 10.
> I've
> > worked for and with some pretty odd people, but I've never been told off
> for
> > doing something that I was under the understanding I was expected to do.
> >
> > Punch line - she's the former MD's sister. At least she doesn't think
> she's
> > an archivist.
> >
> > Back to putting my nose where it belongs. . .
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Thomas Berry, Archivist
> > Historical Construction Equipment Association
> > 16623 Liberty Hi Road
> > Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
> > Phone 419-352-5616
> > Fax 419-352-6086
> > tberry@hcea.net
> > http://www.hcea.net
> >
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