On Monday 07 June 2010 10:27:31 Shakthi Kannan wrote:
--- On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote: | IIIT offered the venue free of cost with all facilities,
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In writing? AFAIK, we never received any!
I have had many interactions with these people - and their workstyle has always made me extremely frustrated - no replies to emails, not keeping appointments etc. The only thing that works is phone calls and visits. But unfortunately this is more or less the norm in many institutions. There are many places where they go out of their way to be helpful - but these are usually an exception. Where the lower level staff are not cooperative, there is no other way than repeatedly going to the top. Which I finally did in your case, but by then matters had gone beyond repair - although the staff concerned did apologize and offered to help, it was too late. Unfortunately in these cases one needs extreme patience - I have even faced these problems in MIT and Anna University. I do not know if you will remember, but when Fossconf was held in MIT, the dean and other professors were busy taking classes in the halls that were allotted to the conference and there was huge confusion and many talks started late. This was in spite of the fact that we had several meetings with him and the vice chancellor regarding the timings.
perhaps some day when I have time I will chronicle the 'fun' we had with VJTI over a period of a year or so. I am sure Anurag and Mehul are still having nightmares about that! But we did accomplish something - but no where near what we could have ...