As you queue up to enter the cinema for the Launceston Film Society's screening, you will be approached by a pleasant young man with a machine to scan your membership card.Be kind to him as he is only being paid a pittance ($25/hr) for this task.
On Wednesday this week there were three committee members standing alongside, watching him do this. They would have been among those who decided to spend the members' money on contracting out to him a job which would seem to be within the capacity of committee members themselves as part of their responsibilities, a responsibility, in fact, which committee members have accepted with good grace, in one form or another, since the 1950s.
The contract was awarded with no transparent selection process, no advertisement, no budgeted allocation of funds and no consultation with the members.
So be kind to this young man. He may not have the job for very long.
Frederick Street
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Fred! … You need to get real man! That money for that work is nothing at all. Think about it, over the year it is just 60 memberships and about the same number of really good slap up restaurant meals, a 100 cheap flight to Melbourne, about a month in a reasonable motel. Like I say get real!
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