[Sbs] RC meeting

[Donald C Jones]

Hi Bogdan,
I agree with Brian that your actions were not appropriate. The experiment
has been delayed several times due to circumstances beyond our control
like target issues, beam line leaks etc. We hope that further delays do
not come from the collaboration being unprepared, but that is possible.
That does not give any of us the right to abuse our human resources, be it
Alex or even those with less visibility like graduate students. If
activity on the Slack channel is any evidence of Alex's dedication, those
problem-solving conversations often start early in the morning and go late
into the evening. I'm not sure my marriage would last if I worked that
long. We all need to step back and take a breath and realize that we are
people not machines doing science. That same humanity that makes us prone
to failure and sometimes makes us fail to meet deadlines also gives us the
ability to get excited and curious about the wonders of the universe we
live in.
-Don



> Hi Brian,
>
> I guess that your confusion is due to a simple fact that Alex lost
> internet connection may be even before my questions.
> Donald waited for a bit for Alex's reply to my questions before we
> proceeded to the beam line report from David.
> Each of us, who took responsibility to deliver the (sub)system for this
> experiment need to do it on time also should
> inform collaboration, well in advance, if any problem prevent proper and
> timely preparation.
> We suppose to start data taking tomorrow, so each system better to be
> ready. OK, we have one more week, but it is close.
> It will be bad to lose beam time due to insufficient readiness.
> Best regards,
>
> Bogdan
> ________________________________
> From: Brian Quinn <bquinn at cmu.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:38 AM
> To: sbs at jlab.org <sbs at jlab.org>; Bogdan Wojtsekhowski <bogdanw at jlab.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Sbs] RC meeting
>
> Hi Bogdan,
>
>       I want to address the way you spoke to Alexandre at Tuesday's first
> RC meeting.  I understand that you are stressed by worries about
> whether everything will be ready on time.  I share those concerns.
> But the way you spoke with Alexandre, by firing a series of
> questions at him and then not allowing him to answer them, was
> anything but productive.  I've spoken with other people who were in
> the meeting who had the same impression as me, that this was
> harassment, not any productive exchange.  If I had realized sooner
> how this 'conversation' was evolving into abuse, I would have
> expressed my objection at the time.  I'm sorry I didn't think fast
> enough to do so.
>
>       Regardless of your concerns, I believe you owe Alexandre an apology
> for such treatment.   In future, a more reasonable way to express
> such concerns would be to give him a written list of questions well
> in advance and to sit quietly while he addresses them.
>
>       We are all under stress trying to get the experiment ready to run.
> That is not an excuse to vent our stress on other people.
>
>                         Regards,
>                         Brian
> ________________________________________
> From: Sbs <sbs-bounces at jlab.org> on behalf of Donald C Jones
> <jonesdc at jlab.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021 3:55 PM
> To: sbs at jlab.org
> Subject: [Sbs] RC meeting
>
> Hi Folks,
> We will have our first daily RC meeting tomorrow (Tuesday Sept 21) at
> 3:15PM. Please be ready to give an update on your subsystem.
>
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> Your RC,
> Don
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Donald C. Jones, PhD
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Physics Dept.
Temple University
Office: 757-269-5743
Cell: 757-768-1148