greyed.out.fields wrote:Malleus wrote:Storytellers are employed to tell stories I guess, and stories aren't always true. But if I had to choose a side I'd say that Sue Gardner probably didn't even know that there was a WMF Employee Handbook.
If the WMF has a staff storyteller, maybe they should also have a "Spiritual Healer" like
Everton F.C. does?
--Interlude--
I could do the storyteller gig.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a great man was interrupted in his ruminations on how to make his soft porn site more popular, by one of his soothsayers:
"I have a dream", said the soothsayer, "that we could make a great online encyclopedia with this new software I found."
"Oh, it's you." said the great man, reluctantly pushing aside his pile of centerfolds, "Ok - how does it work?"
"Well, anyone can edit it, and add whatever they want, and, er, that's it really...", the soothsayer enthused.
"Oh, ok", said the great man, "sounds stupid to me, but we have oodles of server space - set it up and let me know if it goes anywhere. Now, where was I? Oh, yes, September - cute..."
"We could call it Wikipedia", the soothsayer suggested.
"Are you still here?", the great man replied.
And so it came to pass that the "Wikipedia" did flourish and prosper, and the great man did rub together his hands and smile.
"Bring me the soothsayer", he commanded.
And the soothsayer was brought.
"So, this wikipedia thing I told you to do is doing pretty well, huh? Great idea of mine. How can we make money with it?", the great man asked.
"Er... It was my idea, actually...", ventured the soothsayer.
And with that the great man flew into a great rage, the like of which had not been seen since the last great rage: "Begone, heathen", he roared, and the soothsayer was cast out of the kingdom, destitute.
And everyone lived thoughtfully ever after.
--sorry, but "storyteller"? they need lyrical poets too... --
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