In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Iain Churches
wrote:
Every self respecting team wants to set-up ad break down its own
sessions.

All that means is you don't have enough decent staff.

Strange interpretation. It doesn't mean that at all:-) Except for
location gigs, where the riggers go on ahead, the same crew wants to
see the job through from start to finish.

You seem as usual to miss the point. Too long hours just don't result in
the best product.

No experience of this in audio. But when I first starting working in a uni
astrophysics groups the 'group ethos' was that when you had a week on a
telescope you all worked 24 hours a day every day all though, or as near as
you could physically force yourself to manage. The idea was that time was
costly and anyone who couldn't do this was a wimp who couldn't work hard
enough.

One trip observing showed what lunacy (carefully chosen term :-) ) this
was. After three or four of days of people cat-napping, etc it became
obvious they were all making countless mistakes and foul-ups[1]. I got flak
for simply refusing to work in the same way... until I got more and better
results that the people who were trying to show they were 'men of iron'.

FWIW I also rapidly got sick of the way some seniour staff used students as
'robots' and I proceeded to automate data collection. Same reason as above.
Less effort + better results.

Slainte,

Jim

[1] My favourite was when someone melted a line scar down the inside of an
aluminimum dome because they use the telescope in the daytime with no
visible filter over the primary and focussed the Sun onto the dome walls.
They were too brainless with sleep-deprivation to realise what they were
doing.

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