The sleepy Cantr staff

[Sarah]

I'm not aware of any recent applications for the tailor position that were declined. If any were declined, it would have been for a good reason.

That's because there are no applications - there is no way of applying to that position through the staff hiring page. Try clicking the link, it leads to a text: "Something went wrong with the application - please try again." So how would you apply? By email of course but since the word is the department is full, why burden them with an application when help is apparently not wanted? Besides, how would you know what to say in that application when there's no form or a list of what's required. What else could you write besides "hello, I'm a long term player with too much free time and a will to help." That's what everybody says.

Yeah, you're right, sorry, I didn't realize. I'd try the regular RD application and mention that I was interested in the tailor position. If someone sent an email saying "hello, I'm a long term player with too much free time and a will to help," I'd make sure to send them some kind of a reply with a request for more information and tell them which application to fill out. So it's not such a bad idea to do that if you don't know what to do. Why didn't you ask before? It's not like you would have got your head bitten off or anything.

[Marian]

Sorry for being off topic, but hallucinatingfarmer, I love that avvy!

(Shutting up now...)

[Surly]

And people do (and have) stepped down when they no longer have the time

The problem is that it tends to be after they return from a six month hiatus...

Considering we have a department named for it... cantr staff are remarkably bad at communicating... (probably myself included...)

[colonel]

What?


*Hides*

[Surly]

Not you, fool...

I know why you're not around...

[Junesun]

The Languages Department is active and at times more things are getting translated in a day than a professional translator could be asked to. However, since we're not professional translators, we have a life, too, and characters to play, and nobody will be asked to leave the department just because of wildly varying levels of activity depending on work schedule, holidays and other factors. We appreciate any contribution. If the translation to a particular language is going slow, we're ready to hire more translators - but for most languages, there are just not enough applications or the applicants don't speak the language well enough.

I think another clarification is necessary: not all Cantr texts can be translated. For example, animal names are still not available to translators and will require some programming in order to become available for translation. Same goes for quite a few other texts. They are gradually becoming available though, for example objects did recently, and events before that.

As to hiring new staff and abusing privileges: not just the Personnel officers have a say but also the GAC, GAB and the chairpeople of the departments. Especially the chairperson of the department where the applicant would like to work, of course. I don't believe that public voting is a good idea in this respect because a) it would mean giving out too much confidential information about the applicant, b) most of the people on the forums are not qualified to evaluate somebody's foreign language or programming skills or the workability of his ideas given the make of the system and c) nobody except Jos is qualified to say whether he trusts a certain player with his game, trusts him not to mess it up (even a change to a translation has the potential of making a page unusable) or abuse the knowledge gained as a staff member.

That doesn't mean that once you're hired you can do what you want. In most departments, new staff members get training first and have less access rights than normal members for the training period. Also, the structure of Cantr is such that nobody can abuse his privileges and hope to go unnoticed. This is especially true for the Players Department. Fortunately, there have been very few cases in which a staff member was found to be untrustworthy.

[PRUT]

I fell some words were addressed to me as well.
But ok - sometimes I sleep but sometimes I do (I feel) good job
529 polish players and 1873 chars today.

I don't want to say that's just my merit. (It's also Keves and others work) but imagine that I was accepted for Marketing Dep. after bringing over 250 brand new polish players - so that was a real work which didn't finished then

Voting may be cool but definetly should not be a reason for apointment or dismiss. That is my opinion.