My honest opinion it's bothering me alot... read

[sex]

Presuming you are actually referring to me here, how exactly has anything been treated like a boring government job and what on earth does that have to do with what the OP said?

Anyway in response to the OP, we are now in the process of reviving the events department. Shonly is overseeing it for the time being and applications for events management are currently open. I'm happy to say that we've had some promising applications so far!

no one wants to host because the majority of staff do not like you and find you rude/think you have a superior complex. if you attended more than 4 events during the entire 2 weeks of hxss you would have seen what they have to say about you.
having a manager who you dont like and treats a teen fansite like a government job makes people not want to get involved or host!

i say if you seen a pile of paper work you would get excited irl

[Chris]

no one wants to host because the majority of staff do not like you and find you rude/think you have a superior complex. if you attended more than 4 events during the entire 2 weeks of hxss you would have seen what they have to say about you.
having a manager who you dont like and treats a teen fansite like a government job makes people not want to get involved or host!

i say if you seen a pile of paper work you would get excited irl

So it's my fault that people decided not to host events? I don't know how you figured that one out.

[FlyingJesus]

I wouldn't say it's all your fault but you are kinda in charge of staff or does the AGM Staff role not actually include communicating with staff and making sure they're doing their jobs any more

[Chris]

I wouldn't say it's all your fault but you are kinda in charge of staff or does the AGM Staff role not actually include communicating with staff and making sure they're doing their jobs any more

How can I be blamed for staff not hosting events? Staff were encouraged to host events throughout hxss, but they can't be forced into it unless they're event organisers who aren't reaching their minimums.

[lawrawrrr]

It's mostly down to managers to ensure staff are meeting minimums. Obviously if managers aren't keeping up with it we do step in, even if they do we usually check around to make sure there's no flagrant rule breaks but most people have met minimums. Over HxSS we've all been encouraging staff members to host events, but we can't force them to, only encourage, which I think we've tried our hardest to do!

[Jurv]

the events department will never be how it used to be

[-:Undertaker:-]

I saw the criticism at General Management that the current GM team treats this like a boring government job, yet i've seen the opposite. I've been in and out of Management since 2006, as well as staff roles, and there's not been a more friendly/relaxed General Management like this ever before. I years gone by, whenever I would contact/be contacted by General Management i'd be contacted as though it was via a government department... nowadays it's the total opposite with Matt, Laura, Chris and Sam. Much better.

I certainly wouldn't like to return to the regime days of ---MAD--- or even of other GMs.

[nvrspk4]

I wouldn't say it's all your fault but you are kinda in charge of staff or does the AGM Staff role not actually include communicating with staff and making sure they're doing their jobs any more

Tbf that's not usually what the AGM Staff does, no AGM Staff usually oversees bad behavior / hiring / firing / permissions. Non-performing EOs would fall under the domain of the Events Manager followed by the AGM Community if I'm not mistaken.

Regardless of anyone's feelings on Wispur I think it's pretty hard to tie his attitude to events, and it looks like some posts are moving more into hurling insults than providing constructive feedback (I really want the :eusa_whistle smiley back here)

[FlyingJesus]

Oh don't worry the events manager and community AGM got it a lot worse for their complete non-effort both quite rightly being replaced

[Lewis]

I think they should choose two events managers / an assistant. Although one should be enough for the events department, while it's in its current state, two minds will be better than one. Although I guess that really depends on who they choose!

(as long as they're both obviously right for the job with a good application)