Originally Posted by
Inseriousity.
There are currently no plans to hire international managers. I've just recently had this debate with Jade and I know she disagrees with my stance on this but beyond the rhetoric, I am just not convinced and think there are a few assumptions about them that do not add up.
International managers will bring in international people
If this were true then the Habbox Help Desk should, in theory, have more international members of staff as the manager is American and the assistant manager is Australian so that covers all those timezones. They currently have 1 non-UK member of staff. If it's not the title then it's something else.
Other fansites have them
If other fansites have them and they have a more active international presence, this means it's worked and we should introduce them too. However, it's not necessarily proof that it's that factor that contributed to that success. There could be a whole variety of factors involved in that success and it's not apparent how much international managers actually contribute (I will expand on this in the point below).
Action only comes from the top
This is the clincher for me. You say we need a leader. My question is, does a genuine/good leader need a title to lead? I am against hiring international managers because I do not think they are the solution. The solution is empowerment. For example, you say that it's embarrassing to DJ to 10 listeners. I've always wondered why it's seemingly the job of management to boost your listeners. Of course, that's what management do but they can't do it alone. I believe this is a grassroots issue. To get more international members, we need our international staff on the ground, showing the Habbos on at the times that those from the UK can't reach just what a great fansite we are. If you only have 10 listeners, what are you personally doing to increase them? You don't need any management, international or otherwise, to get yourself involved with Habbo. You don't need any management, international or otherwise, for you to show leadership qualities. We don't want to hire managers who can become leaders, we want to hire managers who've shown they can already lead, who can show us creativity and what they've done to help improve the departments they work in even though it's above and beyond simple minimums. Instead of waiting around for someone else to take charge, I challenge you to lead the charge, regardless of your official title (for example, I've been informed that Grig has recently brought in several international DJs despite only being a Head DJ and not having a management title and I imagine he would do the same even if he was just a radio DJ because that's just who he is). Only then will we see improvement*. It seems to me that people stop themselves from taking charge because they automatically assume that management would stop them when it is actually a management's dream come true that someone would organise an event off their own back, for example.
*I should probably point out that compared to a year ago, both events and HxL have seen a vast improvement in covering international times. Events, for example, used to stop at 10pm and you could guarantee there wouldn't be another one until at least 11am.
