Suggestions for Change

[Grig]

Who is matt?


Na but really, Matts a nice guy but in my opinion your one of the worst general managers as of yet. That's just my opinion though. You seem to just flow with whatever the agms think, I just get that vibe and I don't like it. As a general manager you should take control.


O/T: I agree with most of your points garion but I don't think jins gonna be too keen to give access to a site manager.

I agree with you, the general manager is poor. Garion and Oli were and are strong. Roxy is great. But seriously, this GM has SOO MUCHHH bias, it's just not funny. It's pathetic, get a new one.

[Shar]

I agree with you, the general manager is poor. Garion and Oli were and are strong. Roxy is great. But seriously, this GM has SOO MUCHHH bias, it's just not funny. It's pathetic, get a new one.

Slating off the current general manager will get habbox nowhere.

[Nemo]

Slating off the current general manager will get habbox nowhere.

Actually it will because then maybe something will get done.

Saying that, i have no opinion on the whole AGM/GM thing since i dont really look at what any of them does.

[Shar]

Actually it will because then maybe something will get done.

Saying that, i have no opinion on the whole AGM/GM thing since i dont really look at what any of them does.

However, what Grig did there was just pick on characteristics he dislikes of the current GM, that's not really giving constructive feedback on how to get things fixed.

[Nemo]

However, what Grig did there was just pick on characteristics he dislikes of the current GM, that's not really giving constructive feedback on how to get things fixed.

Well it kind of is, hes saying what he dislikes about the current GM and therefore why he should be gotten rid of

[sammy]

However, what Grig did there was just pick on characteristics he dislikes of the current GM, that's not really giving constructive feedback on how to get things fixed.

How lol? If he's pointing out his bad points then maybe Matt will try to improve, so it is positive feedback .

[Jsoh]

there's nothing wrong with mattg, he makes good decisions in hiring management from what i can see and yeah, he could be given more power to move this site forwards, but as a whole he is already good at managing. with experience in general managing myself, it's not always the easiest job to know what you should be doing, there is a huge list of things you could be doing so it takes a good person to even know what they should be prioritising themselves with. matt seems like a good person, but i do agree he should maybe get a bit more of a backbone, not that he should be fired.

[Grig]

I like Garion and Oli; they are leaders. Matt has no current ideas and lies back to the AGM of staff to help him defend himself, that's what happened with Garion and is what happening now. He can't defend his mistakes for life.

[Phil]

Not meaning to sound rude but I thought this thread was 'Suggestions for Change'. Shouldn't we be discussing how we can improve departments and management teams as a whole, not throwing negative comments at a certain member of staff? Wouldn't be so bad if it was constructive crticism (which some of it is) but a lot of what is being said about Matt are just negative comments.

[Hecktix]

In my experience at Habbox there have been two kinds of General Manager, the type that gets involved behind the scenes in the sense of getting to know everything that was going on and by all means putting their foot down and running their Habbox, by all means it was a dictatorship but a damn successful one. The two General Manager's i'm referring to here are 8Freak8 and ---MAD---, 8Freak8 (in my opinion) is one of the best General Manager's Habbox has had, and although I disgreed with ---MAD--- a lot of the time he got the job done and ran things effectively. However, there was a problem with this leadership - what 8F8 and ---MAD--- said went - end of, no argument, no discussion and it took a long time to turn them (hell it took me about 2 hours to persuade 8Freak8 not to turn Habbox Help desk into a team kick wars when I was HxHD Manager).

In the days of 8Freak8 nobody dared answer back to him and in the days of ---MAD--- well we all know what happened if you moaned too much at ---MAD---, nowadays this simply wouldn't work at Habbox as we've come to a stage where the users are more involved in the running of Habbox and presenting ideas and whatnot than ever before, hell we wouldn't have had a thread discussing the capabilities of General Management four years ago

I think the new era of General Management came along with nvrspk4 and this era was more to turn Management into more of a team, I think it was something nvr had to do really due to time zones therefore he invested in a superb General Management team who got the jobs done for him and he was able to sit back and get on with his important behind the scenes jobs.

Matt is similar to nvrspk in some respects he entrusts his team of AGMs to get the niggly bits done for him, there are a large number of departments at Habbox and if Matt was to keep on top of all of them himself he'd find himself in a pickle - it'd be a full time job, not something you could juggle college with (I know 8F8 and ---MAD--- did it but in fairness 8F8 and ---MAD--- were older than nvr and Matt (more so 8F8)) so it makes sense for Matt to get us to keep on top of the departments, and then have us 3 report back to him, rather than one person getting the lowdown on 10 departments or however many there are.

Let's look at Matt's good sides, I can guaruntee he does an awful lot in terms of managing his management team, hell when I was Forum Manager I never imagined Matt could be as bossy as he is now I'm AGM - he does all the important stuff with Jin regarding Habbox Developments (whoever mentions V6 in response to that get's a slap) and works with the AGMs to ensure they are fulfilling their roles to justice.

Not only that, I don't remember in my time at Habbox (that's 4 years, a lot less than some I know but still it's quite lengthy) another General Manager who posts on the forum as much or goes on Habbo as much. It's fair enough saying Matt isn't as famous as the other GMs were but I'm not quite sure this is true, I remember being in a furni shop in the summer and someone walked in dressed exactly like Matt so I'm like "HEY MATTGARNER" (as let's face it no freak would dress like that out of chance) and it wasn't Matt, it was a kid who later told us he didnt have a HxF account, but listened to HxL and read the news at Habbox.com and knew xxMATTGxx was the General Manager - it was certainly a start.

The fact Matt is in the public eye a lot more than other General Managers is one of his strong points, he was on HxL last night for instance and HxL nearly hit 100 listeners for the first time in a good few months. Matt does his job and he makes sure we're doing our jobs, we work as a team to maintain and improve Habbox and I think it's clear that improvement is starting to happen, forum statistics are increasing, HxL listeners are increasing - it's going to be a long and steady process unfortunately but we're going to make it happen and in all fairness without MattG none of it could happen.