Some people are great at one thing, and they get promoted to jobs that are totally above and beyond their competencies!
For example, We see great assistant coaches fail as head coaches! (ie. Norm Chow) We seen the case of former Apple store executive fail as the CEO of JC Penney's.
And here at UH-Manoa , we have an expert on databases and informatics being placed in a similar position.
(His name: Dr Rich Gazan)
Don't get me wrong, he was great in teaching the database searching class! You could feel his passion and you know he had real work experience in the field! I loved that class, big time!
But he also taught the Library Management! His passion wasn't there! It was obvious he was going through the motions! Whereas this a class about library management, NEVER did he talk about "when I was a library manager" because he had ZERO practical experience managing a library!
He even admitted to me (behind closed doors) that he had no experience
managing a library staff!
All he could do was talk about theory and come up with filler activities that had nothing to do with managing libraries!
All he could do was talk about theory and come up with filler activities that had nothing to do with managing libraries!
His groupies defend him with "but he
managed this and he so smart". So what? You want a library manager to
teach a class about running an auto repair shop? HELL NO! So why have a
library management course be taught by some database genius who has
ZERO experience managing a library staff?
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Also, I did find it disturbing in the LIS 650 class , Dr. Rich Gazan opened the 1st day of class with "tell me about a boss that you didn't like". He was probably thinking "I want to discuss what can go wrong with management" but that's the wrong way to do it!
By asking ""tell me about a boss that you didn't like", he was pressuring people to talk about seriously traumatic situations that they might not even be comfortable discussing with closest friends, much less a room full of strangers!
Just goes to show why why counselors/psychiatrists/etc go through specialized training, none of which condones pressuring the entire class to discuss their traumatic moments in front of everyone!
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And then, when the former LIS Program Chair got burned out, Mr database man (aka Dr Rich Gazan) took over! So now we got an LIS Chair who had no library managing experience and whose main passion is database and informatics.
That's
like having botany expert run the zoology dept. I mean they have their
similarities, but it's not the same thing!
So here we have this Ivory Tower expert handling things that are way outside of his area of expertise!
So here we have this Ivory Tower expert handling things that are way outside of his area of expertise!
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Now,
this blog post is a bigger risk than the ones about "Professional
Victim Professor" (aka Dr Noriko Asato)
Links about "Professional Victim Professor"
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2015/05/professional-victim-professor.html
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2015/06/professional-victim-professor-part-2.html
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2015/07/professional-victim-professor-part-3.html
While Noriko Asato uses her small size as a crutch to play victim, Dr Gazan is physically bigger than I am. He looks like he played linebacker in American football, or played rugby, water polo or some other physical sport! While usually has an easy-going personality, an even an easy-going person may not take lightly to these criticisms. While he may be bigger than me, he's not bigger than some of the people in Hawaii prisons, where Dr Gazan will be a minority.
In my previous blog posts, I mentioned this
Links about "Professional Victim Professor"
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2015/05/professional-victim-professor.html
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2015/06/professional-victim-professor-part-2.html
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2015/07/professional-victim-professor-part-3.html
While Noriko Asato uses her small size as a crutch to play victim, Dr Gazan is physically bigger than I am. He looks like he played linebacker in American football, or played rugby, water polo or some other physical sport! While usually has an easy-going personality, an even an easy-going person may not take lightly to these criticisms. While he may be bigger than me, he's not bigger than some of the people in Hawaii prisons, where Dr Gazan will be a minority.
In my previous blog posts, I mentioned this
As for the LIS Chairperson Dr Rich Gazan, while he is great in talking about databases, informatics and information science in general, he is way out of his league to even talk about library management, much less bring solutions to this problem!He tells me that by sending the letter to HSL director about my side of the story about my problems Tisha Aragaki, then I'm "giving them ammunition". What he's really telling me is "how dare you refuse to suffer in silence". That's when I lost respect for Dr Gazan!Irony is, when he approved Asato's stupid "contract of silence", he wasn't just giving me ammunition, he gave me nuclear weapons to use against him and Asato! Dr Chin know how potent the nukes I got from Asato/Gazan that he just told Gazan/Asato to surrender to my refusal to sign their "contract of silence"!Dr Gazan even questioned me with "who do you think Ms Eddy going to believe - someone she worked with for years or some intern" as if I didnt think of that all when typing the letter! In other words, Gazan (and Asato) thinks people should be cowards and not try anything that isn't guaranteed to be 100% success!You see Asato/Gazan discourages people from having courage. They both tell people that you suffer whatever life gives you and you should be discouraged from attempting to get better treatment! What Asato/Gazan is telling me is "No Snitching/No Tattling".The "No Snitching/No Tattling" is a psychologically dangerous message and anybody who promotes such messages needs to be publicly exposed to the light!
So let me re-emphasize my points in a more clear way
Dr Rich Gazan when you tell me "by
sending the letter to HSL director about my side of the story about my
problems Tisha Aragaki, then I'm giving them ammunition", sir that is equivalent to telling me "Stop Snitching, Stop Tattling"
Dr Rich Gazan, when you asked me ""who do you think Ms Eddy going to believe - someone she worked with for years or some intern", sir that is equivalent to telling me "Stop Snitching, Stop Tattling"
Dr Rich Gazan when you tell me "by sending the letter to HSL director about my side of the story" that I am ruining careers, sir that is equivalent to telling me "Stop Snitching, Stop Tattling"
Dr Rich Gazan, you want to tell me messages that are equivalent to "Stop Snitching, Stop Tattling"? Then Screw You!
Anyone who promotes that equivalent of " Stop Snitching, Stop Tattling" is using the tactics of low-life scum!
Apparently, Dr Gazan's boss (Dr David Chin) understand that and over-ruled Dr Gazan and Dr Noriko Asato!
Dr Chin also earned my total respect for that!
So in one sense, I won, Dr Gazan (and Dr Asato) LOST!
Dr Chin also earned my total respect for that!
So in one sense, I won, Dr Gazan (and Dr Asato) LOST!
Some will say "you won, let it go". However, anyone who promotes the equivalent of "Stop
Snitching, Stop Tattling" needs to be exposed to the light, because
they are very dangerous to the psychological well-being of anyone they
come in contact with! They need to be exposed to the light, so that they
can't infect the next person in a situation similar to mine.
As
for Dr Gazan's database expertise, while I find it very credible since
he worked in online indexing and expressed real expertise in the field
(unlike his library management class), he should have used his online searching expertise BEFORE telling me this "Stop Snitching, Stop Tattling" nonsense.
If he bothered to use his online search expertise, he would've known the following
- I stood up to the biggest, baddest, rudest mid-level sales manager at Ala Moana Macy's and refused to take off my Santa hat even after she got into my face and repeated "take that hat off"
- When taunted by Nadine Chun (an extremely rude staff member at Palolo Elementary School), I slammed a few chairs, and then sent one of the biggest, baddest, meanest letter to ever question a senior staff member. The principal was on my side, even though Ms Chun cried to the police. I was NEVER prosecuted for this, as the police only interviewed me about the incident.
- I wrote a blog post describing one of the meanest co-workers ever, Jesse Newman. He is very dangerous and writing the blog post was major risk to my physical safety.
- I wrote "Exposed to the Light" which I made the most classic comeback to my school peers and teachers who verbally abused me!
- I wrote "Public Shaming of Hawaii's bigots" which I basically called out a former classmate for being a trashy person, because of her racist remarks about another racial group. That classmate has one of the most vicious posts that I have ever read on my facebook news feed! She is an extremely emotionally disturbed person who could be very dangerous! My blog post was another risk to my personal safety!
- I posted some flyers around UH-Manoa about my dissatisfaction with the editor and faculty advisor of Ka Leo! After posting those flyers, I attended a public meeting where the editor and faculty advisor was present! I yelled into the mic ripping them in front of everyone!
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Now, some memes about Dr Rich Gazan, to make him uncomfortable about doing searches about himself in front of his next database class.
By the way, all those photos were taken by me at an event, so I own all copyrights to these images!
So, Dr Rich Gazan, is this how you want to be known?
This is what happens to corrupt officials who say stupid things to me! You should have seen this coming!
PS: IF Dr Gazan, any LIS or UH-Manoa official wants to have a conversation about this will have to consent being recorded by my mobile device. Whether the recordings goes on YouTube or any other online forum will be determined by myself by whatever reason I choose!
So yeah Dr Rich Gazan, if you did your job as a database expert, YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN ALL THAT!
And you would've known that your "Stop Snitching, Stop Tattling" nonsense will NEVER work on me!
Come on Mr Database Man, are you really so stupid that you though you can tell me BS like..................
- my letter to HSL is giving them ammunition
- who do you think Ms Eddy going to believe - someone she worked with for years or some intern
...................and have me fall into your line of thinking?
Are you really that stupid Mr Genius?
Are you really so stupid to think I'm just another kiss ass?
However, Dr Rich Gazan, there is a way to redeem yourself .......................
Stay in your lane! Stick to teaching about databases!
Stay in your lane! Stick to teaching about information science, leave the library management courses to someone who can actually say with credibility "when I was a library manager....."
Stay in your lane! Stop telling people anything equivalent to "stop snitching, no tattling"!
You're not a gangster! You might be bigger than me, but some real thugs at Halawa can knock you out with one punch!
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Now, some memes about Dr Rich Gazan, to make him uncomfortable about doing searches about himself in front of his next database class.
By the way, all those photos were taken by me at an event, so I own all copyrights to these images!
So, Dr Rich Gazan, is this how you want to be known?
This is what happens to corrupt officials who say stupid things to me! You should have seen this coming!
PS: IF Dr Gazan, any LIS or UH-Manoa official wants to have a conversation about this will have to consent being recorded by my mobile device. Whether the recordings goes on YouTube or any other online forum will be determined by myself by whatever reason I choose!
