Hi Kevin and list,
I too am saddened to read this. Although I am not the most vocal
contributors to the list I do check in regularly and contact individuals
(mostly off list) if I can be of help.
As a lone worker I have felt very supported by this service and really
appreciate all you and Anne do to help. I also share some of the others
disgust that you must deal with rudeness from the very people you are trying
to support.
The (small) error you refer to just shows you to be human, not incompetent.
I do hope you aren't putting yourself under added pressure by striving for
perfection ;-) I sometimes think there should be a 30 second delay button
once we hit 'send' as most of us have made this kind of mistake in the past.
I really hope someone does step in to take over the role as I would hate to
see this list fold.
HUGE THANKS for your support and help and want to wish you luck with
whatever you plan to do to take over the spare time this departure will give
you. I don't really think you will spend that time with feet up, coffee in
one hand and paper in the other...lol
You will be greatly missed,
Roberta ..x
-----Original Message-----
From: Maguire, Kevin
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 1:04 PM
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Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] The Occ-health list will soon need another academic to
run it if it is to survive.
Dear Occupational Health list members,
In three months time (11th January 2014), I shall give up my co-ownership
with Anne Harris of the occ-health discussion list. We need an academic to
replace me. Without an academic replacement, the list will have to fold on
that date. Will an academic member of this list please contact Anne? It
has to be an academic in order to meet the requirements of our funding body
(The Higher Education Funding Council of England) and its stated purpose at
the inception of jiscmail and its discussion lists.
I now feel the need to write a resignation 'speech'. So ...
Bashyr and I started this list quite a long time ago. We got a membership of
over a thousand in less than a year. Members came to us from all over the
globe. Bashyr did a brilliant job and when he’d had had enough, he left the
list and Anne Harris took over his half of the responsibility. She too has
done a brilliant job, in particular in helping to professionalise the list.
She has worked hard on developing the scope and attitudes of all in OH.
I think the list serves many purposes and does so well. I have been pleased
and proud to help to look after it. One of the principles that I have
always expounded is the multi-discipliniarity of the list: while the largest
membership group is that of OHAs, we have been a broad church including
OHPs, physiotherapists, occupational hygienists, H&S enforcers and
practitioners, mental health professionals, (I've been told that there are
some) HRMs, at least one international labour lawyer, and, of course, there
is my own discipline of occupational psychology. I wish the list was as
international now as it was in the beginning but there are reasons for the
way that has evolved.
So, why am I resigning? In a nutshell, running the list takes its toll.
There are straightforward time demands but there are also emotional demands
including responding to the rudenesses that Anne and I have to deal with,
thankfully mostly off-list. Several times, we have both been near to
pulling out of the list but we both recognise how important it is to the Occ
Health community in all its manifestations and we have refrained.
The trigger for my decision is a recent faux pas I made. It happened
because I was working very late. The error has told me that I am not a
super-human who can work for ever without rest and without making errors.
If I don’t cut down my workload, I might make an ever bigger blunder.
Hence I give the list three months notice and ask for another academic to
take over; we know there are others out there. Fellow academics do you
value the list sufficiently to want it to continue? If so, come forward and
take over co-ownership of the list?
As a last word and as testimony to the wonderful resource that the list is,
I must single out one fantastic list member for praise: Chris Packham. Has
there ever been such an unselfish and giving person as Chris? Thank you for
embodying the spirit of the Occ-Health list.
Kind regards
Kevin
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