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>From: Katheryn.Resing@Colorado.EDU (Katheryn Resing)
>Subject: service technicians
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>Hi, I would like to throw out a suggestion to ABRF that we have an
award
>to honor exceptional service technicians who help us keep our
facilities
>running. We all complain about poor technicians, but seldom do
anything to
>encourage the good ones. An annual award for exceptional service would
be
>seem to me to be a way we could provide positive feedback to these
>invaluable people.
>
> The kind of service person I am thinking of is exemplified by
Greg
>Aiolo, PE Sciex. He was there at the beginning of the ESI revolution
and
>quietly kept our instruments running while we struggled to learn how to
use
>them. I participated in three set-ups where he did the work, he worked
>hard to get the instruments running optimally for each lab, and kept
them
>that way for years, at great personal expense. He also spread info
around
>about how different labs did things, making it easier for us all to get
>good data. His thorough, careful approach inspired students to bring
the
>same attitude to the instrument. Furthermore, he always assumed that
if I
>said the instrument wasn't working, it wasn't that I was doing
something
>wrong (I may have been, but that was always the last thing he
considered,
>having exhausted all other possibilities).
>
>Katheryn Resing
>
>
>
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